Fiona Amundsen Photography
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Fiona amundsen photography. The plight of ben kuroki the only american of japanese descent permitted to fight in aerial. Fiona amundsen art photography auckland new zealand. The dowse art museum is a free public gallery for people to enjoy contemporary art and culture. Each series focuses respectively on the sites of the 1941 japanese initiated pearl harbour attack.
Fiona amundsen art photography auckland new zealand. Fiona amundsen art photography auckland new zealand. View towards gwangyo bridge cheonggyecheon seoul 12 04 2008 6 23 velvet. As part of fiona amundsen s tenure of fulbright.
Operation magic is part of auckland photographer fiona amundsen s ongoing exploration into the subjective experience of being in historically or culturally loaded public sites and photography s role in the memorialising of war and trauma. Fiona amundsen tim corballis explore a micro city biosphere and ballistic missile through film and photography the group. Fiona amundsen s practice explores how documentary photographic and filmic images can enable a connected active and caring relationship to the ramifications of painful historical experiences that live on in the present. Collecting and exhibiting photography symposium te papa museum of new zealand wellington 11 june 2016.
Fiona amundsen and tim corballis production stills from human hand 2019 2020. Flying no standard see the iconic legacy of the group 1927 1977 with art from the dowse collection. Operation magic 2012 most honourable son 2013 and see you at yasukuni 2014. The imperial body brings together three interrelated series.
Fiona amundsen s practice explores how documentary photographic and filmic images can enable a connected active and caring relationship to the ramifications of painful historical experiences that live on in the present. Fiona amundsen art photography auckland new zealand. Human hand by fiona amundsen and tim corballis takes us on a journey through video and photography to three historically laden sites in arizona usa. She is interested in establishing relationships between specific historical events the social responsibility of witnessing.
For this series amundsen turns to pearl harbour in hawaii the site of the surprise japanese attack on america in 1941. From a 1970s experimental micro city to a structure meant to replicate human life in outer space and the home of the largest intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the us air force.