MARTI FRIEDLANDER: PORTRAITS OF THE ARTISTS by Leonard Bell, features more than 250 photographs from all fields of the arts - music, pottery, visual art, acting and dance. Many have not been published before and
Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists chronicles the changing face of arts in New Zealand
Marti Friedlander. Photo / Dean Purcell
![Philip Clairmont, Auckland, 1978. Photo / Courtesy of the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/DW546PFAPOZDRFGVGWTPVAHWYY.jpg?auth=5fa8e5df1a05b3ce2a68396cfbf15fb5ca4834e2548e01875f8bd0c30b6b6fc4&width=16&height=20&quality=70&smart=true)
Marcia Russell (1940-2012)
Russell had a long career in journalism and documentary film. She was an innovator and trailblazer. Russell's Thursday magazine, which she founded and edited, assumed that young women were intelligent and interested in books, social and political issues and the arts.
![Marcia Russell, Auckland 1980. Photo / Courtesy of the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/TQYDTPWSLI5KHDRJUHLMXWDYMQ.jpg?auth=480ac8f0fcacef35698a07ea7d3668a36a18cff0b498596925a5874a8cb046d8&width=16&height=23&quality=70&smart=true)
John Drawbridge (1930-2005)
Drawbridge was an artist, muralist and printmaker, most famous for his murals in public places such as the Beehive and New Zealand House in London. He was considered one of Aotearoa's most significant artists.
![John Drawbridge, c. 1979. Photo / Courtesy of the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/GWADBYUMI2KKC6MBDM5NAZWHWI.jpg?auth=1149a798bbde44a91c99e554c529c7fe252ed7f210e76fedac8115972f64ca33&width=16&height=21&quality=70&smart=true)
Merata Mita (1942-2010)
Friedlander photographed Merata Mita (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Te Rangi) for Head and Shoulders: Successful New Zealand Women Talk to Virginia Myers (1986). Mita's work was and is huge.
![Merata Mita, Auckland, 1985. Photo / Courtesy of the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/5ZHIEVQU5S4MHAO6T5AJCHJCBA.jpg?auth=b03de10ff70f2a2070439f1bff4a5440fe4101830606812af7f840fdc94def67&width=16&height=24&quality=70&smart=true)
Gil Hanly (born 1934), Pat Hanly (1932-2004)
Friedlander met Pat and Gil Hanly soon after they returned to New Zealand from England and Europe in 1962. The Hanlys were at the centre of the creative "ferment" in Auckland.
![Gil and Pat Hanly, Auckland, 1969. Photo / Courtesy of the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/ONGIJAJXMWBIH6THQLDTRAVBV4.jpg?auth=3a5b77511efe57da8c415c7cbb31937d106a638851d8d2c03d4f1e906f3498ff&width=16&height=21&quality=70&smart=true)
Ann Robinson (born 1944)
Robinson is one of New Zealand's most internationally prominent contemporary artists in any medium - in her case, glass. Photographer and artist had known each other since the 1960s.
![Ann Robinson, Auckland, 2000. Photo / Courtesy of the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/BXAOCPYAGKMFPSEPXKXT3PO7SI.jpg?auth=d38ace79dca57c43beaf05266cd820cb1715b2a1f6d172abd873aaf447c40d80&width=16&height=16&quality=70&smart=true)
Extract from Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists, by Leonard Bell, published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Wellington. Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists,
September 2–November 8, Shed 11, Queens Wharf, Wellington Waterfront.
![MARTI FRIEDLANDER: PORTRAITS OF THE ARTISTS by Leonard Bell. Photo / Supplied](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/EOBNJPJNRQ3J3JVSY47CQLYPEI.jpg?auth=fca45a1e8ce6d284adc2002816cd6f080cfcb5af2cd50e56d22d97ce5f0f25cb&width=16&height=20&quality=70&smart=true)
All photographs Courtesy of the Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust.
Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists, by Leonard Bell (Auckland University Press, $75) is out on August 27.
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