Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of Early New Zealand Tourism
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Joe; with your wide knowledge of the world of graphics, do you know much about Ross Gore, who did the "It Happened In New Zealand" strip in NZ newspapers in the 1950s? I featured him in a PechaKucha I did for the Wintec Spark festival this week. The online Pikitia site has good info on him,
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Geoff, my comment was in response to Peter's upthread, which your post alerted me to:
The cover image of the book is a good example of this, 1941 we think, part of a series of indigenous women done by Pat Lawlor in the US for Pan American.
Again, the book from Lawlor's library is a nice find.
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Peter Alsop, in reply to
Doh! Sorry all, i had my detail wrinked .... Paul Lawler, a US artist, designer for Pan American (pan am). Sorry, my mistake. Thx for comments. Some nice articles coming out soon ... Check out Tourism Business Magazine this week re the importance of this legacy to the industry. NZ Geographic, an immaculate mag, the week after with about a 14 pg spread on mountain tourism with beautiful images alongside. North and South coming up on the role of the material in shaping national identity. Sorry for the shameless advert, but thought the followers of this article may enjoy those stories. Thx for interest to date.
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Sacha, in reply to
i had my detail wrinked
like
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
do you know much about Ross Gore, who did the "It Happened In New Zealand" strip in NZ newspapers in the 1950s?
Geoff I know nothing at all about Ross Gore, apart from "It Happened in New Zealand" being the weekly highlight of the Evening Post in my childhood. With newspaper comics of any kind being dismally thin on the ground in postwar NZ he was a real standout. I'm pretty sure his stuff would have continued almost up to the mid-1960s. Thanks for the delightful link.
BTW does anyone recall Frontiers of Science, an Australian daily strip that ran in the Evening Post in the 1960s? I was hugely impressed with it back then, with the way it presented cutting-edge ideas clearly in beautifully drawn panels.
It was only after the artist Andre Bresciani died that I realised it was his work, even though I'd worked with him on and off for years in Australian animation. Don't know what you got 'til it's gone.
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
That Patsy Kane strip is a bit of a treat, eh. Rather risqué for its time and, artistically, far superior to the average seaside postcards of half-clad young women?
I used a strip from September 1956 by Gore, where he was promoting the cause of Gustave von Tempsky as a more appropriate local hero for local boys, over imported figures such as Davy Crockett. It was all connected to the 1955 Rabbits Act and the banning of rabbit meat and rabbit skins---to forestall the manufacture of Davy Crockett hats. I donned my own hat (made in NZ from possum fur!)' to rapturous applause. Interesting corners of social history!
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Islander, in reply to
donned my own hat (made in NZ from possum fur!)’ to rapturous applause. I
There was once a tiny local industry in S. Westland making Davy Crockett hats from trapped possums...didnt last long, but did exist.
Curse the anti-fur idiots who killed the ANZ possum fur trade! Yeah, they had a point with farmed fur -0 and certain species of wild fur - but they killed quite a few jobs, good export fund-earning, and an excellent bird&bush-saving conservation initiative.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
That Patsy Kane strip is a bit of a treat, eh. Rather risqué for its time and, artistically, far superior to the average seaside postcards of half-clad young women?
I reckon Gore was inspired by the British strip Jane. It was still going in the Daily Mirror in the 1950s. A week's worth of Mirrors at a time would be bound up in a yellow cover magazine format with its stablemate the Sunday Pictorial and shipped out to the farther reaches of empire, which is probably where Gore was exposed to Jane's seductive influence.
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Not sure if anyone is still listening, but ….. First few hard copies arrived yesterday, few flown in for marketing purposes etc. got it today from the friendly folk at Pottons ….. 2 years in the making … Highs … Lows … Hurdles … Tenacity … Passion … Pleading … Asking … Grovelling ….. It was all worth it, the hard copy is amazing. Yup, conflict of interest to declare this for sure, but to hold your first book is a pretty cool feeling. The print quality and overall production oozes quality. It is big and thick. Seeing the full bleed pages properly cropped just tightens the look and feel. Precious day. Hopefully not too ‘gloaty’, just wanted to share the thoughts with some other passionate people about the content and to say that, if you have taken the plunge or will take the plunge, you are going to love the book in print!
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Sacha, in reply to
to hold your first book is a pretty cool feeling
Onya
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Islander, in reply to
<q> but to hold your first book is a pretty cool feeling.
I can still feel the joy of picking up the first copies of "The Silences Between (Moeraki Conversations)" way back in 1983 at the Franz Josef post office- whoa! my first book!
Cant ever happen again but was bloody good at the time-
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
to hold your first book is a pretty cool feeling
Onya
+1
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Lilith __, in reply to
to hold your first book is a pretty cool feeling
Onya
+1
And me. Congratulations, Peter! :-)
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JacksonP, in reply to
but to hold your first book is a pretty cool feeling
Congratulations. I have pre-ordered one, so can't wait to hold it in my hand also. You doing any show and tell days in Auckland? Might come and get your squiggle on it.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
to hold your first book is a pretty cool feeling.
My first is my only thus far, but yeah, I remember the feeling. It's magic.
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Peter Alsop, in reply to
Hey, thanks all for not chastising my annoucement and instead helping celebrate the moment, apprecated. Great to share that with some other bookies who have had the feeling and like the content. Someone asked about akld gig. There will be a launch in mid october in Parnell, though unsure of invite numbers as yet. Happy to be open minded re an invite (but cant promise it), so drop me an email thru the site if you keen. The launch will coincide with a painting exhibition of Marcus King, one of the great poster artists but an incredibly accomplished painter as well, in fact my own favourite artist. Light over water was his specialty and i believe he captured the light and tones of the nz sky and environment better than any other i have seen. Big call i know. So, will be great to celebrate his contribution to the art of early tourism with the akld launch. ...... Just anothe part of the dream coming true in this project. Thx all for support.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Congratulations, Peter.
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Peter I imagine that you're probably familiar with this lovely example. A bit poignant in the circumstances, but what a jewel.
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Peter Alsop, in reply to
Thx Joe. Yes, that poster is in the book at full page size, accompanied on the facing page with a 1935 print advert from the Railways Magazine "Come South!" showing the poster in black and white within the advert (in poor resolution as a b&w ad of the day). Yes, poingant in the current circumstances facing ChCh but I'm confident -without detracting from the heart break - that the jewel will shine again. I will need to sell a couple of posters soon to recaibrate my collecting post the book, and the ChCh poster will likely be one I'll sell, so if you have an interest in it, even as a trade, drop me a line.
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Hebe, in reply to
Enjoy that feeling! Congratulations; a book now exists where there wasn't one before you created it.
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On the subject of railways, today about half the Chch Railway Station building is gone. The clock tower presents only empty sockets. Huge diggers are busily turning it into rubble.
I think sadly of the NZR ticket hall, with that lovely floor, vast as several ballrooms.
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Islander, in reply to
O Lilith - I remember that so well also - and the earlier station, with steam trains- gone gone gone beyond-
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
I will need to sell a couple of posters soon to recaibrate my collecting post the book . . .
Thanks Peter, it'd be a great honour, but given my past luck with retaining stuff I'd best defer to those with proven curatorial talents. What an opportunity though for such a delightful item to be given a place of public appreciation in one of Chch's discerning & resurgent bars & eateries.
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Lilith __, in reply to
– and the earlier station, with steam trains-
Found some lovely shots of that here. How handsome it was.
Demolition video from the Press if anybody needs to see it.
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Really good to see Selling the Dream is a finalist in the NZ Post Book Awards. It can also be voted for in the People's Choice section.
Peter's next book, with Gary Stewart, is Promoting Prosperity. I'll be runn a guest post from Peter about that next week.
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