“SHARP-ELBOWED”: Jane Bown among a scrum of male photographers fighting for a shot of Bette Davis at the London Palladium, 1975. Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/interactive/2009/oct/22/jane-bown-photography Jane Bown, born March 13 1925, died December 21 2014 The Observer published its first Jane Bown photograph in December 1949, initiating a romance between Britain’s […]
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Iconic 1953 Hockey Photo
This iconic photo showed up on Facebook as an inquiry about the circumstances. I figured a hockey town like Antigonish might be a good source for more information. Please share any comments or memories of this game on this site. Here are some of the comments so far on FB: I took this from […]
Dorothea Lange’s 1936 iconic photograph of the Great Depression
MIGRANT MOTHER: Photographer Dorothea Lange, 1936 This iconic photo of the Migrant Mother taken in California by Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression, acknowledges the power of black and white photography to enter the national conference. But this is also a story of the inequality between the photographer and the photographed: Yet it seems […]
Bizarre Historical Photos
http://www.answers.com/article/1237577/24-bizarre-historical-photos-you-need-to-see?paramt=1¶m4=fb-ca-de-lifestyle¶m1=today¶m2=15842871¶m5=10152433888046186¶m6=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 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
Bryan Adams, Photographer of Injured Vets
Bryan Adams started toying with photography back in the late ’90s while on tour and he’s become a venerable force in the field. His startling images of servicemen and servicewoman who have sustained devastating wounds were compiled into a book, Wounded: The Legacy of War, which was published last year.The images will be featured on public […]
Photographic Memories of Loved Ones who Served Canada in Uniform
How about collecting photo memories of loved ones from the Antigonish area who served Canada in uniform. Please post here if you have such photos. Like this WWI photo of Peter Murray Marshall, older brother of Maurice Marshall of Paqtnkek First Nation. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/07/remembrance-day-how-we-remember_n_6117518.html?1