The Margaret Mead Film Festival and ICP present Allan Baldwin: In Frame.
This loving examination of the photographer-turned-historian Allan Baldwin's extraordinary work on traditional Maori tattoos is part historical document, part tribute to some of the last practitioners of a dying traditional art form. Baldwin's magnificent photographs from the '60s and '70s, which inspired Michael King's famous 1972 book Moko: Maori Tattooing in the 20th Century, are the product of a chance encounter on Baldwin's adoptive home of the central North Island of New Zealand. Coming upon a Maori female elder with a moko, which he had believed were all gone, he asked if he could take her picture. That episode, like the many that followed it, combined to make up an extraordinary pictorial record that is also a testament to Baldwin's character.
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