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"This book is published alongside City Gallery Wellington's exhibition "Aberhart", developed in association with the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, City Gallery Wellington (13 May-29 July 2007), Dunedin Public Art Gallery (15 September-18 November 2007 TBC). Thereafter touring to venues throughout New Zealand"--T.p. verso Table of contents: Photographs / Laurence Aberhart -- The horizon room / Gregory O'Brien -- Living proof / Justin Paton Summary: "In a definitive overview of Laurence Aberhart's work to date, 238 full-page reproductions of iconic photographs of churches, marae, cemeteries, Masonic Lodges and other subjects are accompanied by essays by New Zealand art writers Gregory O'Brien and Justin Paton. O'Brien pursues the motif of the horizon through Aberhart's work, considering the many journeys that his career encompasses and the shelters and structures seen along the way, while Paton focuses on the human presences that animate Aberhart's body of work"--Book jacket