Explore Between skin & shirt: The photographic portraits of William Harding

William Harding’s subjects come to us with such startling immediacy that we find ourselves looking, it seems, at someone we might know.

Children

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Moon daughterBaby of the Flinn family of UpokongaroReardon childSleeping [Gower?] infantUnidentified girlMiss Wray, aged 3Two unidentified infants

Men

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Unidentified young man (Mr Aubert?) in military uniform, with capMr Finamore, with dogMr C Cobb, with a rifleMr G WillisMr PlampinMr R WoonReverend Richard Taylor's chair, with other Maori artifactsMr SedmoreDuncan FraserUnidentified Maori man, with moko, Whanganui districtUnidentified manUnidentified manUnidentified man, sick in bedMan riding a Boneshaker bicycle

Women

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Unidentified woman[Mrs?] KeenUnidentified young maori girlUnidentified womanUnidentified Maori womanMrs Gillen[Miss] ScottAmelia DrummondMrs MoonUnidentified womanUnidentified womanUnidentified womanUnidentified young Maori woman with clear chin mokoUnidentified woman

Pairs and groups

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Woman on left wearing large crinoline dress with black jacket with tassels and belt above the waist, woman on the right wearing crinoline dress with tassels on top part of dressUnidentified family groupMembers of the Burne familyCaptain Nathaniel Flowers and wife Margaret, with a dogUnidentified men seated in army uniform drinking aleMaster Percival Thomas Scott and his sister, of FeildingAlfred Walker on Shetland pony Tom Thumb, with brother John Walker and unidentified circus performersUnidentified Maori man and his sonUnidentified Wanganui family and their possessionsMaori children and carved figure on a post, at a pa in WanganuiTwo unidentified womenLieutenant Herman with his ventriloquist dummyUnidentified men and women

Parents and infants

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Woman and child, Wanganui districtWoman and child, Wanganui districtUnidentified woman and a babyMrs Morgan and child, Wanganui districtMrs Peterson and her babyMrs Wilson and her babyMargaret Hair and daughterMaster Hardinge

Feature image — Detail from photo of baby of the Flinn family of Upokongaro, 14 Nov 1881, by William James Harding. Ref: 1/4-005131-G. Alexander Turnbull Library.