Conversātiō:
In the Company of Bees

Book

Conversātiō: In the Company of Bees, is an exquisitely designed artist’s book that explores the practice of Noble’s photography set against the issues of ecosystem collapse and climate change and reveals what an artist can do in response.  Through Noble’s art and newly commissioned essays spanning ecology, science, education, literature and their intersections, the book traverses Noble’s deep interest in how humans relate to bees. Her photographs consider the life and death of a species in rich detail, from images of communities of bees to tintype photographs showing the beauty of translucent bee wings, photograms created from the wings of dead bees and her remarkable black and white portraits of dead bees. 

Conversātiō is available from Massey University Press. 

2021

Publisher
Massey University Press 

Contributors
Anne Noble with curator Zara Stanhope and designer Anna Brown