Positive Aging

These photo portraits are said to represent the impact of aging and this feels like a negative — and a loss. A narrow vision of beauty. To me, the mature portraits could also represent other impacts — maybe wisdom, acceptance, clarity. resilience. Other? Makes me wonder if the older person knew that the […]

Lakevale Resident Patrick Delaney, 1880s tintype restored by Bob Gourley

This photo is in the collection of the Antigonish Heritage Museum and in the graphic documents of the Archives of Nova Scotia, which describes it this way. ACCESSION NUMBER: 2008.001.001 CATEGORY: GRAPHIC DOCUMENTS DATE: 1880 – 1890 MATERIALS: PAPER MEASUREMENTS: 24 CM; 19 CM COLLECTOR: ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE NARRATIVE: Portrait of Patrick Delaney, a native of Pictou County […]

Robert Frank’s mid 1950s B/W Photos exhibited in Anna Leonowens Art Gallery Sept. 5 – 12

http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1234142-exhibit-of-celebrated-photographer-robert-frank-pops-up-in-halifax Robert Frank’s photos will appear as newsprint copies at the Anna Leonowens Art Gallery for just one week, beginning today, and will then be destroyed. This is the landmark concept that caught my eye: “Robert Frank was the first artist to insist that photographs alone tell a story, though he did relent and […]

Happy Labour Day (since 1894 in Canada): Any photographic representations from Antigonish?

Labour Day (French: Fête du Travail) has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in Canada since the 1880s. The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to December 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union’s strike for a 58-hour work-week. The Toronto Trades Assembly […]

Albert Einstein: Musician and Physicist

https://www.facebook.com/AlbertEinstein/photos/a.10151310323214843.492808.12534674842/10152473807869843/?type=1&theater “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music… I get most joy in life out of my violin.” -Albert Einstein, 1929 All the b/w photos of Einstein on this […]

Imagine Hong Kong 1950s

Have a look at Chinese street photographer Han Fo’s b/w photos of Hong Kong in the 1950s. Imagine Hong Kong!!!! Look for some of the same conditions for community health in this bustling urban metropolis as in Imagine Antigonish, a bustling rural town and county: Social Support Networks; Early Childhood Education & Play; Intergenerational […]

Winnie the Pooh: 100th Anniversary of the Story AND the Real Bear

Did you read Winnie the Pooh as a child, and/or read it to your children? If so, here is the story and the image of the WWI soldier from Winnipeg and the Bear that inspired A. A. Milne. The CTV story editors would have done well to have the b/w photos retouched and restored. […]

The Evidence is In: A Black and White Photo Soothes a Crying Baby

Art for Baby is an acclaimed book that was launched in Asia in 2011 with the exhibit at the Espace Louis Vuitton in Hong Kong. Excerpted from The Guardian, September 2008: A simple black and white image can soothe any crying baby: “It gives them something to concentrate on when they’re bombarded by so many different images […]