Installation view, Apparitions: the photograph and its image, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews

Leveillé (France), Taha-Tahala + Heroua: Natif de Otago, ile Tavai-Pounamu, N[ouve]lle Zelande (Polynesie). Lith par Leveille d'apres les bustes moules sur nature photographie par Bisson d'apres la direction de Mr le Dr Doumoulier. [Paris, 1842-1847], from Dumont d'Urville, Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie. Paris, Gide, 1842-1847. Atlas. Anthropologie. Plate 13, ink on paper lithograph taken from daguerreotypes by Bisson of plaster casts of life masks made during Dumont d’Urville’s visit to Otago in 1840, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa

Josiah Wedgwood & sons (England), Copy of the Portland Vase, 19th century, white on blue jasper-ware ceramic, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Installation view, Apparitions: the photograph and its image, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews

Installation view, Apparitions: the photograph and its image, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews

Installation view, Apparitions: the photograph and its image, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews

Installation view, Apparitions: the photograph and its image, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews

Augustin François Lemaître (engraver), after Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (France), Chaplle des Feuillants, 1827, ink-on-paper etching and engraving after Daguerre’s painting, Chapelle des Feuillants (1814), published by Augustin Liébert in Galerie du Luxembourg, des Musées, Palais et Châteaux Royaux de France (1828); and Weber (France) after Charles-Marie Bouton (France), Thermes de Julien, c. 1840, ink-on-paper lithograph, issued by Bonnemaison, Private Collection. Installation view, Apparitions: the photograph and its image, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews

J.-B. Léveillé (France), Poukalem, Natif de Otago, Ile Tavaï-Pounamu + Matoua-Tawai: Natif de Korora-Reka, Ile Ika-na-Mawi, Nlle Zélande (Polynésie). Lithé par Léveillé d’après les bustes moulés sur nature photographié par Bisson sous la Direction de Mr le Dr Dumoutier, from Voyage au pôle sud et dans l’Océanie … sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d’Urville; Atlas: Anthropologie (Paris: Gide, 1842–47), plate 14, ink on paper lithograph taken from daguerreotypes by Bisson of plaster casts of life masks made during Dumont d’Urville’s visit to New Zealand in 1840, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa. Installation view, Apparitions: the photograph and its image, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews

Photographer unknown (United States), Daguerreotype of a pencil drawing of a mother with two children, c. 1855, daguerreotype in gilt wood frame. Installation view, Apparitions: the photograph and its image, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews

Installation view, Apparitions: the photograph and its image, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Matthews