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Observations Of A Rural Nurse
Hardback Edition: 1
A unique photographic portrait of the King Country
Sara McIntyre, the daughter of the artist Peter McIntyre, was nine years old when her family first came to Kakahi, in the King Country, in 1960. The family has been linked to Kakahi ever since. On the family car trips of her childhood, McIntyre got used to her father's frequent stops for subject matter for painting. Fifty years on, when she moved to Kakahi to work as a district nurse, she began to do the same on her rounds, as a photographer.
This book brings together her remarkable photographic exploration her 'observations' of Kakahi and the sparsely populated surrounding King Country towns of Manunui, Ohura, Ongarue, Oiriaka, Owhango and Taumarunui.
Featured in the 10 February 2020 New Zealand newsletter.
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Pages : 304
Publisher : Massey University Press
Publication date : 2020-05-14
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film