New Zealand A Century of Images Author:Paul Thompson The twentieth century could be called the century of the image. When George Eastman invented the first point-and-shoot camera just over a hundred years ago, the ability to make images came within the reach of anyone. Photography quickly became commonplace. But as well as being a hobby or a habit, it’s also a craft, a profession, and an a... more »rt form. It’s often banal, but sometimes profound. Advertisers use it to persuade us, artists to reveal the unexpected. A Century of Images presents a new approach to New Zealand’s history – probing the hidden side of our identity through images, using a hundred years of photographs to investigate who we are and who we have been.« less