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Haurongo: Friedlander, Marti

Pub, South Island, 1967

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Pub, South Island, 1967

As an immigrant, Marti Friedlander was in a position to visualise aspects of social relations that most New Zealand-born people did not see – or did not want to see. This image of a solitary man in a crowded small-town South Island pub, his fist clenched, explosive with latent tension, portrays both an individual and a widely shared social condition.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Auckland Art Gallery – Toi o Tāmaki, E. H. McCormick Research Library

Reference: 1786_26A-4c

by Marti Friedlander

On loan from the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust, 2002. Reproduction courtesy of the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust

Permission of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Leonard Bell. 'Friedlander, Marti', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/47468/pub-south-island-1967 (accessed 4 June 2026).