In Canadian Photographs, James sought to capture Canada’s vernacular, from small town fairs to cityscapes to views from train windows
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a book title worth? Not much, in the case of Geoffrey James ’s coffee-table book“Titles are always tricky, and this one’s a bit ambiguous,” says the Welsh-Canadian documentary photographer. “But when I came here in 1966, there were 20 million people. Now there’s 40 million. I suppose this book looks at what we’ve done, and about the everyday and the things that I find.
“We’ve been sold a bland image, with Lake Louise and the CN Tower,” he says. “Canada is more interesting than that. It’s funkier, and I’m trying to celebrate that.”will be launched at Toronto’s Stephen Bulger Gallery and Vancouver’s Polygon Gallery .The Old Brewery Mission in Montreal began as a soup kitchen in 1889. There is a tradition, which I totally disapprove of, of pictures of bums with their flies open lying on stoops. I don’t do that. You can see that someone peed on the wall, though.
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