John Pascoe
John Dobrée Pascoe was a New Zealand mountaineer, photographer, writer, editor, historian and archivist. Pascoe was born on September 26, 1908 in Christchurch, New Zealand. His twin brother was Paul, who would later become a notable architect. John Pascoe received his education at Sumner School and Christ's College. He joined his father's law firm and studied the subject, but did not graduate. Pascoe was bored with legal work, so he enquired with Joe Heenan, the under-secretary for the Department of Internal Affairs, whether there were employment opportunities. Pascoe was put on a team working on the 1940 centennial publications, and he thus moved to Wellington. Pascoe was appointed Official War Photographer in 1942. His photographs concentrated on social experiences of workers in wartime New Zealand; many became iconic representations of New Zealand's domestic experience of that war. After the war, Pascoe was the founding secretary of the National Historic Places Trust in ...
