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    David Cook

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1959

    Queen’s Birthday 21 Gun Salute, Hagley Park

    • 1984
    • Photograph
    • Purchased, 1987
    • 260 x 375mm
    • 89/53:6-20
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    Tags: backs (object portions), cannons (artillery), children (people by age group), families, fathers, hats, monochrome, mothers, people (agents), smoke (material), soldiers, youth

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    Exhibition History

    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_535E6-20.jpg

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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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    David Cook: Meet Me in the Square

    David Cook: Meet Me in the Square

    Cathedral Square, Centennial Pool, Lancaster Park, schoolboys, punks, nuns – a photographic journey through 1980s Christchurch.

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    Downtown Christchurch: Photographs by David Cook

    Downtown Christchurch: Photographs by David Cook

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