Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

Date
Dec 1983, [ca Dec 1983]
By
Bleakley, Joe, active 1980-2000s
Reference
PA-Group-00830
Description

Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival which was designed by Joe Bleakley and held at Oriental Bay on 17 December 1983. Chiefly colour transparencies, and a few prints and negatives. Items have been collected by Bleakley, and many taken by him.

A range of photographers are represented, and are clearly identified on most slides.

Sets of images are well identified by Bleakley and he has labelled sets as 'audience', 'banners' (designed by school children), 'fireworks', 'rafts', 'floats', 'gods', 'procession' (children and adults), 'spaces' (chiefly warehouse areas where art works for the festival were created), 'sound' (musicians and instruments).

Individual persons in the images are not identified.

Also includes a montage of b&w prints (and corresponding negatives) showing the crowd at Oriental Bay on the day of the Festival.

Accompanying information - List of photographers represented, compiled by Bleakley, and a listing of the sets of slides, are in the Photographic Achive backfile under 'Bleakley'.

Other - An article about the Festival is available: Simpson, Rebecca, New Zealand Listener, 'Summer spectacle' (Wellington, BCNZ, Jan 28, 1984) p 48 to 50.

Arrangement: The sets of slides have been kept in the same order they were in when Bleakley donated them to the Library. Red dot numbered stickers (and white stickers) are Bleakley's original numbering.

Quantity: 2197 colour original transparency/ies some in strip format. 1 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 18 b&w original photographic print(s) loosely compiled into a montage, with corresponding 3 strips of negatives comprising 16 images.

Physical Description: Colour transparencies in slide and strip format, colour negatives, b&w prints, and a colour contact print

Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Photographic Archive and transfers made from there. - - To Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2173: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Papers relating to the Wellington Sun Festival (1983).

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2197 colour original transparency/ies some in strip format, 1 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s), 18 b&w original photographic print(s) loosely compiled into a montage, with corresponding 3 strips of negatives comprising 16 images, Transparencies, Colour transparencies in slide and strip format, colour negatives, b&w prints, and a colour contact print
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Interiors and exteriors of Murray Roberts & Co wool store on Cornwell Street, Wellingto...

Date: [ca Dec 1983]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

Reference: PA12-9720d

Description: Interiors and exteriors of Murray Roberts & Co wool store on Cornwell Street, Wellington, used by those working to produce the Wellington Sun Festival at Oriental Bay on 17 December 1983. Includes some of artworks being created. Photographs taken circa December 1983 by an unidentified photographer, probably Joe Bleakley. Quantity: 7 colour original transparency/ies strips with 7 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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Chiefly interiors of Murray Roberts & Co wool store on Cornwell Street, Wellington, in ...

Date: [ca Dec 1983]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

By: Corlett, Brett, active 1983; Downes, Karen, active 1983

Reference: PA12-9720a

Description: Chiefly interiors of Murray Roberts & Co wool store on Cornwell Street, Thorndon, Wellington, in use by those working to produce the Wellington Sun Festival at Oriental Bay on 17 December 1983. Includes some of art works in progress, two exterior views of the building, and one of a Festival office. Photographs taken circa December 1983 by Joe Bleakley and others. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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Interiors of Murray Roberts & Co wool store on Cornwell Street, Wellington, used by tho...

Date: [ca Dec 1983]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

By: Corlett, Brett, active 1983

Reference: PA12-9722

Description: Interiors of Murray Roberts & Co wool store on Cornwell Street, Thorndon, Wellington, used as workspaces by those producing the Wellington Sun Festival at Oriental Bay on 17 December 1983. Also include artworks in process. Photographs taken circa December 1983, by Joe Bleakley and Brett Corlett. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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Chiefly interiors of Murray Roberts & Co wool store on Cornwell Street, Wellington, use...

Date: [ca Dec 1983]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

By: Corlett, Brett, active 1983

Reference: PA12-9721

Description: Chiefly interiors of Murray Roberts & Co wool store on Cornwell Street, Thorndon, Wellington, used as workspaces by those producing the Wellington Sun Festival at Oriental Bay on 17 December 1983. Also include artworks in process. Photographs taken circa December 1983, mostly by Joe Bleakley, with two taken by Brett Corlett. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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Transparencies relating to a slide show projected on to the Carter Fountain during the ...

Date: [ca Dec 1983]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

By: Clare, Mike, active 1983; Corlett, Brett, active 1983; Hamilton, David, active 1983

Reference: PA12-9719

Description: Transparencies relating to a slide show of portraits that was projected on to the Carter Fountain at the Wellington Sun Festival held at Oriental Bay on 17 December 1983. Images include people being photographed for the slide show, and the Fountain on the night of 17 December. Photographs taken circa December 1983 by a range of photographers, including Joe Bleakley. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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Interiors of Murray Roberts & Co wool store on Cornwell Street, Wellington, used by tho...

Date: [ca Dec 1983]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

Reference: PA12-9720b

Description: Interiors of Murray Roberts & Co wool store on Cornwell Street, Thorndon, Wellington, used by those working to produce the Wellington Sun Festival at Oriental Bay on 17 December 1983. Includes one of a Festival office. Photographs taken circa December 1983 by an unidentified photographer, probably Joe Bleakley. Quantity: 7 colour original transparency/ies strips with 8 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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Laser lighting effects at the Sydney Easter Show, Australia

Date: [1983?]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

Reference: PA12-9273b

Description: Images of laser lighting effects, taken by Joe Bleakley at the Sydney Easter Show, Australia, probably in 1983. Quantity: 11 colour original transparency/ies strips, with 26 images.

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Laser lighting effects, particularly at the Sydney Easter Show

Date: [1983?]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

By: Corlett, Brett, active 1983

Reference: PA12-9273a

Description: Images of laser lighting effects, particularly ones taken by Joe Bleakley at the Sydney Easter Show, probably in 1983. Also two images relating to underwater laser lighting effects, taken by Brett Corlett, circa 1983, probably in Wellington. Quantity: 14 colour original transparency/ies.

Image

Laser lighting effects, probably at the Sydney Easter Show, Australia

Date: [1983?]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

Reference: PA12-9273c

Description: Images of laser lighting effects, taken by Joe Bleakley, probably at the Sydney Easter Show, Australia, in 1983. Quantity: 7 colour original transparency/ies strips, with 21 images.

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Artworks, and a Festival office, relating to the Wellington Sun Festival held on 17 Dec...

Date: [ca Dec 1983]

From: Bleakley, Joe, fl 1980-2000s: Photographs relating to the Wellington Sun Festival in 1983

Reference: PA12-9720c

Description: Chiefly photographs of artworks created for the Wellington Sun Festival at Oriental Bay on 17 December 1983. Includes one of a Festival office inside Murray Roberts & Co, wool store, on Cornwell Street, Thorndon, Wellington, and another of a Festival workchart. Photographs taken circa December 1983 by an unidentified photographer, probably Joe Bleakley. Quantity: 7 colour original transparency/ies strips with 8 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies