Author Archives: Dorothy Lander

Archie MacLellan on the Circuit Camera

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirkut https://soundcloud.com/user813564484/archie-maclellan-july-11-circuit-camera At first glance, local photographer Archie MacLellan, thought that our signature photo of the 1924 Highland Games was taken with a circuit camera.  This speaks well of the restoration process, which involved piecing together two very damaged photos, to create that illusion.  Click on the link above to hear Archie tell the […]

The Regimental Piper in the Great War

  Over a 1000 pipers died during WWI. These extraordinary men were sitting ducks as they went over the top to pipe their men into battle. Piper Harry Lunan was the last surviving piper and he said, “I just played whatever came in to my head, but I was worried about tripping on the uneven […]

Nat King Cole sings A Bicycle Built for Two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MKBHR3NbU Here is Nat King Cole singing On a Bicycle Built for Two.  We would love to have a tandem bicycle for the Imagine Antigonish collection. Meanwhile, here is Hughie Chisholm on his bicycle  in the 1950s.  It looks like a state-of-the art bicycle with hand brakes rather than pedal brakes.  Was there a day […]

A Bicycle Built for Two: A WW1 Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sZLt-7PLg A Bicycle Built for Two was a favorite song of World War One.  This 1931 recording is the backdrop to WW1 pnotos, many of which are of the dead and wounded. The second from last images is of a ward for wounded soldiers. The Canadian Corps of Cyclists fought at Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Passchendacle […]

Nova Scotia Paving Project: Photographic Archive of Reconstruction in the 1930s

CBC Radio Halifax, Mainstreet, September 17, 2014. An interview with the Nova Scotia Public Archives on their newly acquire photographic record of highway reconstruction in Nova Scotia from 1934 to 1938.  The James River Paving Plant and the James River to Heatherton Route, Highway # 4, 1936 are included in the album.  As yet, this […]

Early Antigonish Camera – Zeiss Jena – at the Antigonish Heritage Museum

An article in the Casket from June, 1984 caught my attention.  It was an announcement that this month’s program will be given by widely known and recognized local photographer Robert Gourley. His theme will be “Beginning of Photography in Antigonish.”  And this tidbit: “He has in his possession the first camera in Antigonish and also […]

The Angelina Effect

http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/15/the-angelina-effect-times-new-cover-image-revealed/http://   The Angelina Effect represents Angelina Jolie in black and white on the cover of Time Magazine May 15, 2013, in which she announces her double mastectomy and raises awareness and dialogue about genetic testing for the Breast Cancer gene.  Why black and white? Because it has more impact than colour?

Ryerson Image Centre: War Photographs IN PRINT, 1854-2008

DISPATCH: WAR PHOTOGRAPHS IN PRINT, 1854 – 2008  This exhibit runs at Ryerson Image Centre from September 17 – December 7, 2014. http://www.ryerson.ca/ric/exhibitions/Dispatch.html DISPATCH: War Photographs in Print, 1854–2008 examines the production of war photographs, the role of photojournalists, and their collaboration with picture editors in the press. From Roger Fenton’s collodion plate photographs taken during […]