An exhibition of compelling photos from the Macalister collection, selected by Dr Sandy Callister from her new book The Face Of War: New Zealand's Great War Photography. Under the auspices of New Zealand surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, the Queen's Hospital was purpose-built in Sidcup, Britain, as the First World War's major centre for plastic surgery. Gillies used photography to document his cases and as a consequence the Macalister collection holds the records of 295 New Zealand soldiers who underwent reconstructive plastic surgery. These images represent a crucial punctuation point in the iconography of this war; one which brings us eyeball-to-eyeball with the wounded and allows us to see what has been hidden from this country's war memory.
Opening function
2pm. Paul McNamara and photographic historian Dr Erika Wolf discuss the contact prints in Close-Up.
3pm. Sandy Callister talks about The Hidden Faces of War with the launch of her new book The Face Of War.