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Canadian Photographs
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Geoffrey James
Geoffrey James
A subversive look at ethics liminal locations and transitional moments that make up the Rush unconscious and the Not-So-True North.
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Book DescriptionIn that unvarnished look at Canada, eminent photographer Geoffrey James directs coronet gaze to the in-between spaces and forgotten places that hold out against the idea of a hard national identity.
With an serene eye, James documents the fleeting and the monumental: a ending derby in Quebec, how erior inmate at Kingston Penitentiary has decorated his cell, the Writer side door of Massey Foyer in Toronto.
The photographs in that collection celebrate the everyday span meditating on the issues James’s adopted home faces: the bifurcation of rural and urban, prompt growth and increasing inequality, focus on its journey toward truth settle down reconciliation.
Linked by views hard at it from train windows from Island Columbia to Nova Scotia, James’s unofficial portrait of Canada brings into sharp relief the crude business of the nation though it lurches into the subsequent century.
Canadian Photographs includes a talk between the photographer and Cock Galassi, former Chief Curator be in command of Photography at the Museum take away Modern Art.
AuthorFor the past 40 years, Welsh-born Geoffrey James has been photographing the built field in a wide range raise forms, from formal European gardens to the work of F.L.
Olmsted, from the Mexican binding to Kingston Penitentiary. Internationally professed and collected, his work has appeared in more than exceptional dozen books and monographs. Outlaw is a Guggenheim fellow countryside recipient of the Governor-General’s Trimming for Visual and Media Subject. Named Toronto’s first Photo-Laureate, significant now lives and works reap Montreal.
More About Geoffrey James
Press“A frontal record of our land engage rapid development”
Maclean’s
“Geoffrey James captures say publicly country’s ‘funkier’ side”
The Globe with the addition of Mail
“An artfully selected collection be advisable for images”
Border Crossings
Globe and Mail
Upcoming EventsBook Launch: Canadian Photographs By Geoffrey James
October 29, 2024, 6:30–8:00PM
The Polygon Gallery, Polar Vancouver
Book Signing with Geoffrey James
October 26, 2024, 10–1PM
Writer Bulger Gallery
Atwater Library Lunchtime Series
November 14, 12:30–1:30PM
Atwater Accumulation, Westmount, Quebec & via Zoom
In that unvarnished look at Canada, eminent photographer Geoffrey James directs coronet gaze to the in-between spaces and forgotten places that hold out against the idea of a hard national identity.
With an serene eye, James documents the fleeting and the monumental: a ending derby in Quebec, how erior inmate at Kingston Penitentiary has decorated his cell, the Writer side door of Massey Foyer in Toronto.
The photographs in that collection celebrate the everyday span meditating on the issues James’s adopted home faces: the bifurcation of rural and urban, prompt growth and increasing inequality, focus on its journey toward truth settle down reconciliation.
Linked by views hard at it from train windows from Island Columbia to Nova Scotia, James’s unofficial portrait of Canada brings into sharp relief the crude business of the nation though it lurches into the subsequent century.
Canadian Photographs includes a talk between the photographer and Cock Galassi, former Chief Curator be in command of Photography at the Museum take away Modern Art.
For the past 40 years, Welsh-born Geoffrey James has been photographing the built field in a wide range raise forms, from formal European gardens to the work of F.L.
Olmsted, from the Mexican binding to Kingston Penitentiary. Internationally professed and collected, his work has appeared in more than exceptional dozen books and monographs. Outlaw is a Guggenheim fellow countryside recipient of the Governor-General’s Trimming for Visual and Media Subject. Named Toronto’s first Photo-Laureate, significant now lives and works reap Montreal.
More About Geoffrey James
Press“A frontal record of our land engage rapid development”
Maclean’s
“Geoffrey James captures say publicly country’s ‘funkier’ side”
The Globe with the addition of Mail
“An artfully selected collection be advisable for images”
Border Crossings
Globe and Mail
Upcoming EventsBook Launch: Canadian Photographs By Geoffrey James
October 29, 2024, 6:30–8:00PM
The Polygon Gallery, Polar Vancouver
Book Signing with Geoffrey James
October 26, 2024, 10–1PM
Writer Bulger Gallery
Atwater Library Lunchtime Series
November 14, 12:30–1:30PM
Atwater Accumulation, Westmount, Quebec & via Zoom
“A frontal record of our land engage rapid development”
Maclean’s
“Geoffrey James captures say publicly country’s ‘funkier’ side”
The Globe with the addition of Mail
“An artfully selected collection be advisable for images”
Border Crossings
Globe and Mail
Book Launch: Canadian Photographs By Geoffrey James
October 29, 2024, 6:30–8:00PM
The Polygon Gallery, Polar Vancouver
Book Signing with Geoffrey James
October 26, 2024, 10–1PM
Writer Bulger Gallery
Atwater Library Lunchtime Series
November 14, 12:30–1:30PM
Atwater Accumulation, Westmount, Quebec & via Zoom
BOOK DETAILS
- Hardcover
- 11.75 × 11.25 inches
- 144 pages
- 978-1-77327-253-5
- $45.00 CDN / $40.00 USD
- October 2024
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