![]() ![]() As well as the Hotel being the go-to student bar, artists and photographers – many associated with the art school – frequented the bar and are captured in this booklet. ![]() He carried his Leica camera on the job, photographing the varied patrons of the old and new, around the time ‘six o’clock swill’ was scrapped to more civilised 10pm closing. ![]() Max Oettli found employment as a bartender at Hotel Kiwi after graduating from University of Auckland in the late 1960s. They are possibly the best we encountered anywhere.” ![]() The only feature of the place that is at all remarkable – and the only reason for giving it a ½ an award are the barmen. Described in The Pub-Goer’s Guidebook (1966) as “Built almost entirely of formica and rubberised floor tiles, with the whole place giving out a general lavatorial atmosphere, it surely represents all that a pub should not be. Hotel Kiwi was situated at the corner of Wellesley and Symonds Streets in Auckland – close to the University and the Elam School of Fine Arts. This limited edition zine-style photobook feature the photographs made at the bars of Hotel Kiwi from the archives of three photographers, who have all, in their own way, contributed to the development of early contemporary art photography in New Zealand. Closing Time: photographs from the Hotel Kiwi 1967 – 1975įeaturing texts by Elizabeth Eastmond, Ted Spring and the photographers ![]()
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