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    David Cook

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1959

    Woman and Queen, Chancery Arcade

    • 1983
    • Photograph
    • Purchased, 1987
    • 252 x 375mm
    • 89/53:2-20
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    Tags: double portraits, monochrome, people (agents), portraits, posters, profiles (figures), queens (people), royalty (nobility), women (female humans), words

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    Exhibition History

    David Cook Christchurch 1983 (detail). Photograph. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
    David Cook: Meet Me in the Square
    David Cook Not Scotland. Photograph. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū; purchased, 1987 (detail)  
    Downtown Christchurch: Photographs by David Cook
    Image: uploads/2022_07/89_535E2-20.jpg

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    Spotting Dad

    Spotting Dad

    When Caroline first found out about the David Cook: Meet Me in the Square exhibition through the Gallery's Facebook page before it opened, she had an inkling that she might see her father in the show.

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    A stroll down memory lane. . .

    A stroll down memory lane. . .

    Karen Cunningham found out her photo was in the David Cook: Meet Me in the Square exhibition when a resident at Edith Cavell Home and Hospital brought it to her attention during a weekly game of housie.

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    Catch the Bus Into Town

    Catch the Bus Into Town

    Megan made a special trip to the David Cook: Meet Me in the Square exhibition last week after seeing a photograph in The Press of her and her friend at the Cathedral Square bus stop, taken in 1984.

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    Sisters Growing Up in Christchurch

    Sisters Growing Up in Christchurch

    Since the exhibition David Cook: Meet Me in the Square opened at 209 Tuam Street, the Gallery's Visitor Hosts have spoken to several people who either appear in the photographs themselves or have a personal story to share about a particular photograph in the show.

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    Meet Me in the Square

    Meet Me in the Square

    Now's a good time to make Friends with the Gallery. We're offering Friends 20%* off our new book of photographs of 1980s Christchurch by David Cook.

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    The significance of everyday things

    The significance of everyday things

    During the winter of 1984 my mother, father and I packed an overnight bag and climbed into Dad’s Hillman Hunter. I was five years old and, as far as I could remember, it was the first time we’d ever ventured outside of Blenheim.

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    Meet Me in the Square

    Meet Me in the Square

    The first thing you notice, even before the pageboy haircuts and oversized plastic spectacles, is the absence of smiles. The unhappiness in the eyes of the average Cantabrian snapped on these grey, chilly streets seems palpable. Even the Christ's College cadet, cradling a rifle as part of soldiery drill, looks ready to turn the gun on himself. In 1983, the year when David Cook began a pro­ject to explore his hometown, a camera as his compass, most locals look distinctly brassed off.

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    Chancery Lane, Christchurch, NZ

    James Fitzgerald Chancery Lane, Christchurch, NZ

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    Woman and Mannequin. Chancery Arcade

    David Cook Woman and Mannequin. Chancery Arcade

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