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Between skin & shirt: The photographic portraits of William Harding

Between skin & shirt: The photographic portraits of William Harding

William Harding

National Library Gallery
Corner Molesworth & Aitken St., Wellington

26 May - 29 October 2022

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Unidentified woman, by William James Harding, 1870 to 1889. Ref: 1/4-007382-G. Alexander Turnbull Library.

The photographic portraits William Harding took in his Whanganui studio from the 1850s to the 1880s come to us with such startling immediacy that we find ourselves looking, it seems, at someone we might know.

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This online exhibition was created to accompany the exhibition of William Harding portraits held at the Library from 26 May to 29 October 2022.

Online exhibition — ‘Between skin & shirt: The photographic portraits of William Harding’

The portraits in this exhibition have been selected from the nationally significant Harding collection of over 6,500 glass-plate negatives held by the Alexander Turnbull Library.



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