Conversatio: In the company of bees
By (Author) Anne Noble
Edited by Zara Stanhope
With Anna Brown
Massey University Press
Massey University Press
29th September 2021
New Zealand
General
Non Fiction
Ecological science, the Biosphere
779.325799
Paperback
272
Width 170mm, Height 230mm, Spine 30mm
924g
Conversatio looks at the astounding practice of leading photographer Anne Noble, set against the issues of ecosystem collapse and climate change and examining what an artist can do in response. Its creative focus is on that most important insect, the European bee. Reminiscent of an artist book in its extensive visual content, its appeal is to a wide readership curious about art, ecology, science, literature and their intersections. Through Noble's art and newly commissioned essays, the book traverses Noble's deep interest in how humans relate to bees.
Anne Noble is one of Aotearoa New Zealands most widely respected contemporary photographers; she has been at the forefront of photographic practice in New Zealand since the early 1980s. Creating bodies of work that mark sustained engagement with particular places, sites, histories, issues and, more recently, species, her images are known for their beauty, complexity and conceptual rigour and for their persistent inquiry into the ways we perceive and come to understand the natural world.