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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Nebraska is a b/w film exemplifying art for health
This excerpt from Skip Dine Young’s article on Movies and the Mind in Psychology Today, 2014, draws out the impact of black and white photography in experiencing and empathizing with the aging process. This “addition by subtraction” is a silver (not ‘golden’) opportunity of a black and white film such as Nebraska. A family drama with […]
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 […]
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 […]