The Chiasson Family, Sydney, 1965

Photo taken in 1965, 303 Cabot Street, Sydney. Before the Chiasson family moved to Antigonish, and became a force for social change. Audrey, Denise and Yvonne continue to “foster creative expression for healthy community.” For the IA record, Denise, please identify everyone L-R in this photo. And do you know the photographer.

Frida Kahlo Solo Exhibition in NYC: Art, Garden, Life

Gisèle Freund, “Frida in the Garden, Casa Azul” (1951) (courtesy Throckmorton Fine Arts) Frida Kahlo will have her first solo show in New York City in more than 25 years, at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). The exhibition will “focus exclusively on Kahlo’s intense interest in the botanical world” — the first of its kind, according […]

Enter Your Own Historic Photos

http://www.boredpanda.com/historic-photos/ This site offers an invitation to enter your own historic photos, which are then rated. The photos to date range from Elvis to Einstein. The one generating the most points is of a lone man refusing to give the Nazi salute in 1936. Here are two photos that are explicitly art for health. […]

BOW DOWN: Queens in Art – An Exhibit at Smith College Museum of Art

What exactly we see when we look at a queen is now the subject of BOW DOWN: Queens in Art, a historical survey at Smith College. Its prints, drawings, and photographs of women ranging from Marie Antoinette to Queen Victoria suggest that our perception of royal ladies may rely more on how they are depicted than it […]

Bizarre Historical Photos

http://www.answers.com/article/1237577/24-bizarre-historical-photos-you-need-to-see?paramt=1&param4=fb-ca-de-lifestyle&param1=today&param2=15842871&param5=10152433888046186&param6=15857941#slide=1 This link to 24 bizarre historical photos led me to ask if the Imagine Antigonish collection has a photo that would be eligible. My suggestion is this one circa 1910, which you can find in the Photo Gallery labelled Gender. What IS going on here? Is the man on the right holding a […]

The Downside of Photography Exhibit Going Viral

Kristine Potter’s military photos (West Point) generated so much negative comment targeted at the military that she removed them from social media. Another reminder of the emotional power of black and white photography. http://hyperallergic.com/162244/the-downside-of-art-going-viral/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Downside+of+Art+Going+Viral&utm_content=The+Downside+of+Art+Going+Viral+CID_440045c53a81111b091b98a749b9757e&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=The%20Downside%20of%20Art%20Going%20Viral

The Photographer “In” the Photograph

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First Ever Photographs from Hoaxes to Amputation to Chess-Playing

http://hyperallergic.com/83097/20-of-the-first-photographs-of-things-from-people-to-hoaxes-to-the-moon/ Daguerreotype of the Barricade in the Rue Saint Maur-Popincourt on June 26, 1848 (via Musée d’Orsay) In 1848, the first photograph to be used to illustrate a news story was made. This photograph of the 1848 revolution in Paris, a four-day insurrection in June that left thousands dead in the streets of […]

Lochaber Lake 1916

Lochaber Lake, 1916, Notman Studios, Courtesy of Nova Scotia Public Archives

The Death of Conversation in Black and White Photographs of Smart Phones

London-based photographer Babycakes Romero captures the Death of Conversation due to Smart Phones. The starkness of the black and white photographs gives added impact to these exemplars of short attention span and the “dining dead” on a (romantic?) date. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/27/photographer-smartphones-babycakes-romero_n_6054650.html?utm_hp_ref=canada&ir=Canada