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Portrait of Rita Angus
Marti Friedlander1968
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Auckland, New Zealand
One of Marti Friedlander’s strengths is her ability to quickly form relationships with the people she photographs. Rita Angus almost never posed for a professional photographer. It is a testimony to Friedlander’s skill that she convinced this reclusive artist to agree to be photographed inside her studio for the first time in 30 years. Friedlander’s photograph is a heroic image. This brave portrait shows a painter dedicated to art at a time when it was almost impossible for a New Zealand woman to be a full-time artist.
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- Title: Portrait of Rita Angus
- Creator: Marti Friedlander
- Creator Lifespan: 1928
- Creator Nationality: New Zealand; England
- Creator Gender: Female
- Creator Birth Place: London, England
- Date Created: 1968
- Physical Dimensions: w279 x h368 mm (Without frame)
- Artist biography: Marti Friedlander was born in London in 1928 and moved to Auckland in 1958. About her move she commented: ‘If I had not come to New Zealand, I might never have become a freelance photographer. I used my camera when I first arrived here to record the unfamiliar and make it coherent . . . I had grown up and lived in London, and the fears that I had to overcome were more about isolation from a world in which I found conversation, friendship, and access to the arts so effortless. I needed to find people with whom I could share my interests and concerns.’
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1976
- External Link: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- Medium: black and white photograph
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