John Kinder Photographs

Auckland City Art Gallery, 1985, 64 pages. Buckle to bottom of spine, small tear near top of spine and front cover, foxing to endpapers.

In his photographs and paintings Kinder imposed a sense of order on his views, as if regulating them to current conventions of composition where clarity and intelligibility were paramount. This tidiness, combined with the serene calmness of the depicted weather conditions, can give a Utopian or idealised dimension to his colonial scenes. While there is a high degree of objectivity in his works, this does not exclude an element of interpretation ? an adaptation of landforms and buildings to an ideal.