Category Archives: Book Review
A photographer exposes his love of Ottawa in new work
(source: Ottawa Citizen) If you lived in Willie McElligott’s house, you too might be a photographer. Lake waters shimmer in gold and silver only steps from his front door, and all around are trees with their blizzard of fall colours. … Continue reading
Mike Grandmaison’s Prairie and Beyond
Mike Grandmaison‘s Prairie and Beyond photo exhibition will be presented at Pixels 2.1 Gallery in Winnipeg from September 7 through 29. After this, the 37 large-scale photos of the Canadian prairie will be a travelling exhibition in Manitoba until August … Continue reading
Book Review: Last Folio
by Yuri Dojc and Katya Krausova / photographs by Yuri Dojc Indiana University Press / US $24.95 / 128 pages / 39 color illus., 17 b&w illus., 1 map / soft cover Last Folio: Textures of Jewish Life in Slovakia … Continue reading
Book Review: Images from the Likeness House
Chief John Scow’s house at the Kwakwaka’wakw village of Gwa’yasdams. Charles F. Newcombe, November 1900. Black-and-white recent contact print from a dry-plate negative. PN 240 – Royal BC Museum/BC Archives. Newcombe’s note about this photograph in his Register of Negatives … Continue reading
Book Review: Julius Shulman’s Los Angeles
Getty Publications / US $9.95 / 72 pages / 60 duotone illustrations / soft cover Julius Shulman’s Los Angeles is an attractive collection of Shulman’s black-and-white images of Los Angeles. Including some of his most recognized images of mid-century Modernist … Continue reading










