'The world is a strange place' - The Grant Kerr Photography Collection

6:00PM 3 Abbey Street, Newton, Auckland

Art+Object announces the sale of the Grant Kerr Photography Collection, possibly the finest private collection of photographs in New Zealand. Kerr began collection photographs after meeting Peter Peryer in 1988 in New Plymouth. They became close friends and formed a significant artist-patron relationship, lasting twenty years. His collection of Peryer's photographs is by far the most important in public or private hands and features an unprecedented suite of the photographer's seminal photo essay of the artist's wife 'Erika', taken in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Further photographers represented in the collection include: John Johns, Laurence Aberhart, Marti Friedlander, Theo Schoon, Ans Westra, Frank Hofmann and several more.