Someone's mana /
In 2014 and 2015 Michael Krzanich (*1964 in New Zealand) explored the undercurrent of remote New Zealand and found a resonance unique to that part of the world. The evocatively personal images in Someone's Mana depict people and places that have a deep connection with the mystical nature of Mao...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Maori |
| Language Notes: | Text in English and Maori. |
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Berlin :
Hatje Cantz,
[2016]
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| Summary: | In 2014 and 2015 Michael Krzanich (*1964 in New Zealand) explored the undercurrent of remote New Zealand and found a resonance unique to that part of the world. The evocatively personal images in Someone's Mana depict people and places that have a deep connection with the mystical nature of Maori life and the land (whenua). Mana is defined as a supernatural force in a person, place or object. A delicate aspect of Maori culture, mana can be measured as influence, authority, charisma or spiritual power. Whether inherited or achieved through many complex means, it can also be reduced or lost. Krzanich asks us to imagine what entity and type of mana is represented within the carefully chosen perspective that he takes in each photograph. Together with Maori and English poetry by artist and Maori cultural advisor, Haare Williams, and the editorial guidance of eminent Maori writer Witi Ihimaera, we are invited to consider how and where mana might exist in each image, if it remains, or if it has diminished. |
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| Item Description: | Contains images focusing on remote environments and people of the west and east coast of the north island of New Zealand. |
| Physical Description: | 142 pages, 18 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 26 x 31 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9783775742276 3775742271 9780646944104 064694410X |