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Don Abbott is Deputy Editor of Art New Zealand, and author of Vivid: The Paul Hartigan Story and Elizabeth Rees: I Paint.

teaches art history at the University of Auckland. His most recent publication is , (2017) and his forthcoming will appear in late August.

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Light and Shade
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Books
Ans Westra. A Life in Photography by Paul Moon Massey University Press, Auckland 2024 MARY MACPHERSON For nearly 70 years, Ans Westra photographed the life of Aotearoa New Zealand and its people, taking an estimated 325,000 images. In his insightful

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