Main Street, Highland Games 1940

Main Street, Highland Games, 1940. Photographer: Ronnie Jaques. Courtesy of Library and Archives of Canada Stephen and Lloyd Jewkes and the 5 cent to $1 Store have been among AHA!’s strongest supporters of Imagine Antigonish. They have underwritten the costs of scanning and printing hundreds of heritage photos, in preparation for restoration. And they have […]

Are there other projects in Canada that feature Heritage Photos for Community Health?

When I google with the keywords “heritage photos” and “community health” not surprisingly the web site for Imagine Antigonish is the first site to appear. Nothing else comparable comes up, nothing that uses heritage photos as a resource to thematically illustrate the essential conditions for community health. However, the new Cree Nations Ahtahkakoop Heritage Centre […]

Digitally Retouch and Restore an Antique Photo

When I searched YouTube for videos on the healing power of black and white photography, I got no hits. But there is a groundswell of how-to tutorials on restoring antique photos, including this one. Suzanne Allen uses a photo of her grandmother to demonstrate the technique but does not once mention anything about her subject […]

What did Palestine look like in 1896?

Excerpted from A Politically Incorrect Blog by Joey Ayoub Palestine in 1896 wtdF3tsSrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vaIK8wlAl0 A film footage of Palestine in 1896 was recently published online thanks to Lobster Films. It shows Palestinians of all faiths – Christians, Jews and Muslims – living side by side, and praying side by side. I transcribed the narration below. […]

Morning on Main Street 1910 and 2014

www.facebook.com/week45 Len PD MacDonald posted this glorious photo of Morning on Main Street today (August 7, 2014). A similar view of 1910 Main Street suggests that you have to get onto Main Street early in order to catch the light and avoid traffic blocking the view of the street. […]

Where are the Cooperative Arts in the 36 Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada?

The 14 Banners of Imagine Antigonish illustrate 14 essential conditions for healthy community, rather than core competencies. Still do you find it hard hard to fathom as I do, that 3000 public health practitioners across Canada did not identify engagement with the arts as a core competency? Also noticeable that not a single visual to […]

Vivian Maier photographic archive: A Lesson on Honouring the Photographer and the Photographed

http://hyperallergic.com/138816/the-vivian-maier-discovery-is-more-complicated-than-we-thought/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Vivian%20Maier%20Discovery%20Is%20More%20Complicated%20Than%20We%20Thought&utm_content=The%20Vivian%20Maier%20Discovery%20Is%20More%20Complicated%20Than%20We%20Thought+CID_30d010eb0ead99117e9cadf836cc8a00&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=The%20Vivian%20Maier%20Discovery%20Is%20More%20Complicated%20Than%20We%20Thought The discovery of Vivian Maier’s archive of b/w photos was a documentary film featured at the Antigonish Film Festival. The complications around her photographic archive is instructive for how we preserve and re-touch (restore) the photographs in the Imagine Antigonish archive. Our archive does not have a collection by a single photographer of […]

Kitchen party, Pomquet, Simon Vincent on fiddle, son Joe facing him, 1950s.

Simon Vincent on fiddle, Pomquet kitchen party, c 1950s. Courtesy of Pomquet Héritage. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald. Simon Vincent on Fiddle, son Joe next to him, others unidentified, Pomquet kitchen party, 1950s. Courtesy Pomquet Héritage. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald Email from Daniel Benoit to AmberleeBoulton, July 5, 2014: The kitchen party photo the one […]