IMAGE
King, Marcus, 1891-1983 :New Zealand, South Pacific wonderland [Pohutu Geyser. 1950s]
- Date
- 1955 - 1960
- By
- King, Marcus, 1891-1983
- Reference
- Eph-E-TOURISM-1950s-05
- Description
Poster promoting New Zealand as a tourist destination shows a Maori woman in traditional dress raising her arm beside a geyser playing at full height.
Peter Alsop's 'Selling the dream' (2013) shows this image on page 235, and on page 399, gives its publisher as the Tourist Department, for whom King was working.
This image is based on a 1950s photograph by photographer Ronald D Woolf; see photographic poster of the same subject at Eph-D-TOURISM-1960s-01.
The Maori woman is identified as Guide Rangi, on a photograph retrieved 18 November 2015 from http://tinyurl.com/owmdhkp.
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Screen print, 1010 x 635 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Ephemera, Screen prints, Posters, Screen print, 1010 x 635 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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