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William (Bill) Main (1934-2023)

ill Main was New Zealand's foremost photohistorian. He originally studied painting at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts and went on to gain a position teaching art at Wellington Technical College in 1957. The college became Wellington Polytechnic a few years later and in 1976 he was its inaugural tutor on Wellington's first full-time photography course.

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