Exhibitions
Events
On display
Self Portrait by Marti Friedlander
Marti Friedlander Self Portrait 1961 Vintage silver gelatin print. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased with the generous assistance of the artist and FHE Galleries, 2016
Art Bite
Past event
Meet in the exhibition
Join Guided Engagement Coordinator Rebecca Ogle as she discusses Marti Friedlander's Self Portrait in Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection on the first floor.
Art Bites are 30-minute lunchtime presentations on a single work on display, presented by our staff, guides and guest speakers.
There's a new Art Bite to enjoy each Friday at 12 noon (except during public and school holidays).
Related
Exhibition
Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection
6 August 2022 – 21 July 2024
Making room for fresh voices, untold narratives and disruptive ideas.
Collection
Marti Friedlander Self Portrait
Marti Friedlander is best known for photographing other people, but in this early, evanescent self-portrait she instead focuses the lens on herself. Caught in a mirror as she looks down into her Rolleicord camera, natural light falls gently across her face from one direction. Marti preferred natural light to flash in her photography, saying “… available light means everything to me”. Taken just a few years after she made Aoteaora New Zealand her home in 1958, Marti went on to become one of the country’s most respected photographers over the course of her five-decade career.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )