MOKO - MAORI TATTOO;

Neleman, Hans

ISBN 10: 3908161967 / ISBN 13: 9783908161967

Published by Edition Stemmle, Zurich / New York, 1999

About this Item

Paper covered boards, black titles on slightly cocked spine. Book body clean, photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dustjacket shows minimal wear, archival brodart protected.

Seller Inventory # 33431

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MOKO - MAORI TATTOO
• Publisher: Edition Stemmle, Zurich / New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3908161967
• ISBN 13: 9783908161967
• Binding: Paper Covered Boards
• Condition: Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good +
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Synopsis

In April 1997, Hans Neleman, an accomplished New York-based photographer, discovered moko, the striking facial tattoo of the Maori. Neleman spent a year preparing a protocol for his approach to the Maori. People who had always refused to be photographed by a foreigner consented to his request with the provision that Maori custom would be observed and the photographic images be presented along with their words. The plight of the mokomokai became a significant factor in engaging Maori support for this book. The barbarous and illicit trade in preserved heads of Maori ancestors flourished in New Zealand early in the nineteenth century. Today, Maori are determined to retrieve these heads and to lay them to rest. Thus this project is dedicated to the return of all mokomokai.

About the Author

Hans Neleman is one of those rare and fortunate photographers whose commercial work is as aesthetically viable as their independent creative work and who are respected and sought out by commercial clients and art curators alike. His photographs have been widely exhibited in Amsterdam, Mexico, Chicago and New York City. Pita Turei is an independent film producer and writer. He is known as an insightful political commentator and has interviewed all the Maori portrayed in this book. Tame Wairere Iti is one of the Maori's most important political activists. He is a painter and owner of an art gallery and has been the brain behind various spectacular political actions as a part of his lifelong struggle against the many lingering forms of colonialism. Nicole MacDonald began working for Hans Neleman as studio manager and production coordinator in New York in 1997. She wrote the award winning proposal for the moko project and was production coordinator while shooting in New Zealand.