Saved Fairfax prints go up for sale
A visual archive of New Zealand’s 19th and 20th century history is on sale after almost a decade under foreign ownership. About 1.4 million vintage photographs from the collection known as The Fairfax Archives, shot 1840-2005, are up for sale. For nine years the collection was lost after Fairfax Media sent the images to the US to be digitised in 2013. The company tasked with the project was linked to sports memorabilia fraud, raided by the FBI and bankrupted, with a US bank seizing the Kiwi images as collateral on a US$14 million loan. Daniel Miller, of Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles, acquired the collection and now individual images can be bought from a newly created auction platform – TheFairfaxArchives.co.nz.