Goodall was born on 2 June 1908, the daughter of Frank and Jane Bishop. She was the second eldest of their eight children and grew up on a remote 450-acre hill country farm at Puketi in south Otago. Her parents gave Goodall a
Box Brownie camera to experiment with as a child; however due to her rural home there was no photography lab available so Goodall and her mother, a self-taught photographer, set up a darkroom in the farmhouse's scullery and Goodall learnt to develop negatives herself. She returned to photography in the 1940s while exploring the
Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand, using a
Rolleiflex camera to capture the scenery, and joining the Canterbury Photography Society in order to learn basic techniques. Her images for Whitcombe & Tombs, which numbered more than 2,000, included cities, towns, notable buildings, airports and aircraft, Māori in traditional garb and seasonal panoramic shots of every part of New Zealand. Goodall retired from photography in 1980, aged 72. She served as a
justice of the peace from 1949 to 1999.
Personal life In 1938, Goodall married Stan Goodall, a farmer from the Hakataramea Valley, South Canterbury. They initially lived at Mt. Aitken Station but the farm was uneconomic and they later moved to Christchurch, where her husband became a tour bus driver; Goodall sold her scenic photographs to his passengers as souvenirs.
Publications • Goodall, Gladys M. (Gladys Mary) (1964).
Wonderland panorama : New Zealand. Whitcombe and Tombs, Christchurch, N.Z • Goodall, Gladys M. (Gladys Mary) (1971).
Bay of Plenty panorama : Whitianga, Whangamata, Mt Maunganui, Tauranga, Whakatane, Ohope, Opotiki, New Zealand. Whitcombe and Tombs, Christchurch [N.Z.] • Goodall, Gladys M. (Gladys Mary) (1975).
Christchurch panorama, New Zealand. Whitcoulls, Christchurch [N.Z.] ==References==