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Richard Wolfe is an art, design, and cultural historian who has a PhD in Art History from the University of Auckland and a BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts. He was Curator of Display at Auckland War Memorial Museum from 1977 to 1997, and has written or co-authored around 40 books covering aspects of New Zealand art, history, and popular culture. He has contributed over 50 articles to the quarterly
Art New Zealand, as well as articles to other journals, and has curated or supported the development of multiple art exhibitions.
Peter Alsop is a senior executive who has worked across the public and private sectors. He is a keen collector of New Zealand art, with particular interests in tourism publicity, hand-coloured photography, and mid-century New Zealand landscape paintings. He is the author and co-author of six previous books, including
Promoting Prosperity, Hand-Coloured New Zealand, and
Scenic Playground.
Neill Atkinson is Chief Historian/Manager of Heritage Content at Manatu Taonga - Ministry for Culture and Heritage, where he is responsible for the Ministry's history and reference websites:
Te Ara - Encyclopedia of NZ, Dictionary of NZ Biography, Te Tai Treaty Settlement Stories,
28th Maori Battalion, and
NZ History. He is the author of six books and a number of articles and chapters, mostly on New Zealand political and transport history, including
Crew Culture: New Zealand Seafarers under Sail and Steam (Te Papa Press, 2001) and
Trainland: How Railways Made New Zealand (Random House, 2007).
Katherine Milburn is the ephemera collection curator at the Hocken Library, Dunedin, and has extensive knowledge of the Railways Studios' output.
Riassunto
A definitive illustrated history of the graphic work of the Railways Studios.
