Outside the Rotowaro Shop

Maker
David Bramwell Cook
Production date
1984
 Description
Taken in 1985 by commissioned photographer, David Cook, for the documentary book "Rotowaro: The Last Days of the Waikato Coal Mining Town" and the "Shifting Ground: Stories from Rotowaro" exhibition. The image shows a seated elderly man watching a motocycle being filled at the petrol pump. The interesting activity is the dogs circling in the foreground.
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Maker
Production date
1984
Media/Materials
B/W photo, silver gelatin print mounted on acid-free archival matting board
Measurements
390 x 506mm (Image)
460 x 560mm (Whole)
Production place
Rotowaro, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand
Collection
Rotowaro: The Last Days of the Waikato Coal Mining Town/David Cook/Photography Collection/Social History
Department collection type
Visual Arts
Social History
Credit line
Commissioned Photograph by David Cook:
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
2000/2/3

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