Portrait of a City
Three years ago Philip Temple published a portrait in words and photographs of the Southern Alps, “Mantle of the Skies.” Now, in “Christchurch: A City and its people” (Whitcombe and Tombs, 136 pp.), he offers an equally handsome urban companion to it. Like its predecessor, his portrait of Christchurch and its environs (it takes in Banks Peninsula and the immediate plains area) relies on a carefully organised interrelationship between words and photographs. Mr Temple writes well and is a good photographer, and both the local and the visitor will appreciate the view that he presents: one that deals in the everyday and ugly as well as the exceptional and beautiful.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33442, 25 January 1974, Page 13
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