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Haurongo: Friedlander, Marti

Eglinton Valley, 1970

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Eglinton Valley, 1970

First published in Marti Friedlander and James McNeish’s Larks in a Paradise (1974), this much reproduced and entrancing photograph has become an ‘iconic’, quintessentially New Zealand image, with those sheep, sentient and wary, appearing to question the photographer’s and viewers’ presence there.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Auckland Art Gallery – Toi o Tāmaki

Reference: 2000/28/43

by Marti Friedlander

Gift of Marti Friedlander, with assistance from the Elise Mourant Bequest, 2001

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/47473/eglinton-valley-1970 (accessed 4 June 2026).