Who installed TV antennas in Antigonish in 1954 Karin Alex Fleurin posted these photos on Old Photos of Antigonish with these notations: This is another reposted photo. In the bottom right, I am sitting on a fence that enclosed a play area behind our apartment, the apartment adjacent to Wong’s Café. In the background is […]
Category Archives: Conditions for Community Health
Colourizing History
http://boredomtherapy.com/colorized-history-photos/?as=6022257653284 Do you think that these colourized photos of historical events and people are an improvement on the original black and white? How about this one of Charlie Chaplin and Helen Keller meeting in 1918. I would like to see the original.
Gender Failure: Panel and Movie at StFX, January 15, 2015
Gender Failure has a long history in Antigonish. Click on the Gender collection in Imagine Antigonish’s Photo Gallery, especially these links: https://imagineantigonish.ca/work-or-play-c-1910/ https://imagineantigonish.ca/cross-dressing-c-1910/ https://imagineantigonish.ca/the-wild-geese-the-parade-of-mount-st-bernard-academy-women-c1912/
Charlie Chaplin’s Profound Message in The Great Dictator, 1940
http://www.purposefairy.com/75351/charlie-chaplins-profound-message-to-humanity/ Charlie Chaplin’s final speech in The Great Dictator (1940) dates itself by its style and tone, but still resonates today.
A DOOR THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE: Submit now and often for an Award for the Winning Entry
A DOOR THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 31, 2015. SUBMIT YOUR IMAGES AND PHOTOS TODAY It is remarkable how many of the photos in the IMAGINE ANTIGONISH collection feature doors and doorways, portals and gates, often as a frame for family photos or activities. The Imagine Antigonish team […]
John MacIntyre 1826 – 1916
This photo was contributed to the Old Photos of Antigonish blog with this annotation from Daniel Matta: This is my great great great great grandfather, John Macintyre(3/15/1826-1916). He came to Antigonish with his parents John Macintyre and Marion Mary Sarah McPhee came to Antigonish from Scotland. They came in the early 1800s. John married Flora […]
Lou Bopp’s Photos of the Last Remaining Old School Mississippi Blues Musicians
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/12/lou-bopp_n_6445360.html?ir=Good+News&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000023 Since 2008, photographer Lou Bopp has been capturing the now elderly men who constitute the Mississippi Delta Blues musicians of a previous era. With calloused hands, worn faces and twinkling eyes, the blues artists are living remnants of a bygone time, one of juke joints and fiery soul. James “Super Chikan” Johnson, bluesman, in his guitar […]
Don Harron dead age 90
http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/canadian-actor-writer-don-harron-dead-at-90-1.2193644 For those of us who grew up with Anne of Green Gables and then Charlie Farquharson on Hee Haw, can anyone doubt that this icon of Canadian culture was good for our health? Charlie Farquharson, a fictitious folksy story teller from Parry Sound, Ont. who poked fun at almost anything Canadian, became a cult classic […]
Martin Chambi: The Trailblazing Peruvian Photographer Who Captured a Vanishing World
Martín Chambi, “Organist in the Capela de Tinta, Sicuani” (1935) Martin Chambi is most famous for his expressive, painterly portrayals of Peru’s diverse society, some of which are currently on view at São Paulo’s Instituto Moreira Salles in Face Andina – Fotografias de Martín Chambi. The exhibition builds on the museum’s recent acquisition of 88 of Chambi’s images and spans the breadth of […]
David Goldblatt: Photographing the Crossroads of Life and Death in South Africa
Squatter camp on the fringe of the N1 highway, Woodstock, Cape Town, August 22, 2006 Beginning in the 1940s, South African photographer David Goldblatt documented the people and landscapes of his country in striking black and white. It was only after apartheid that he felt comfortable with color in his work. In Regarding Intersections, published this October by Steidl, Goldblatt’s photographs […]