Early Antigonish Camera – Zeiss Jena – at the Antigonish Heritage Museum

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 […]

Founder of Antigonish, Timothy Hierlihy, 1784 arrival in Antigonish: August, 1984 re-enactment

These are just some of the photos taken by Archie MacLellan for the 200th anniversary of the landing at Town Point of the founder of Antigonish, Colonel Timothy Hierlihy. If you find yourself in these photos, please identify yourself by responding in the comment box. You will see Mayor Colin Chisholm, Bishop William Power, Eileen […]

Positive Aging

These photo portraits are said to represent the impact of aging and this feels like a negative — and a loss. A narrow vision of beauty. To me, the mature portraits could also represent other impacts — maybe wisdom, acceptance, clarity. resilience. Other? Makes me wonder if the older person knew that the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]