Canada

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With skill and sensitivity, forty-two of our foremost photographers have created these outstanding images from the ever-changing drama of this land. Fred Bruemmer's Canada is the Arctic, vast and silent. To Fraser Clark, the Canadian landscape is seen in the ctirve of a plant stem on a placid pond. Tom Knott's vision is an evocative black-and-white of trees looming through a Pacific coast mist. In Paul Guyot's photograph of Nym Lake, a typical scene for many eastern Canadians, the rocky island emerging through the fog over the cold black lake almost brings the sound of the loon's laughter rippling off the page.
For many people, a portrait of Canada is a portrait of mountains, stark and crisp against blue skies. This Canada is found in the photographs of Egon Bork, Pat Morrow, and Scott Rowed. But Canada can be so many other things — the red fields of Prince Edward Island; the rocky sea-shores of Nova Scotia; the Shield country of the east; the jewelled nightscapes of the cities;... Tovább

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With skill and sensitivity, forty-two of our foremost photographers have created these outstanding images from the ever-changing drama of this land. Fred Bruemmer's Canada is the Arctic, vast and silent. To Fraser Clark, the Canadian landscape is seen in the ctirve of a plant stem on a placid pond. Tom Knott's vision is an evocative black-and-white of trees looming through a Pacific coast mist. In Paul Guyot's photograph of Nym Lake, a typical scene for many eastern Canadians, the rocky island emerging through the fog over the cold black lake almost brings the sound of the loon's laughter rippling off the page.
For many people, a portrait of Canada is a portrait of mountains, stark and crisp against blue skies. This Canada is found in the photographs of Egon Bork, Pat Morrow, and Scott Rowed. But Canada can be so many other things — the red fields of Prince Edward Island; the rocky sea-shores of Nova Scotia; the Shield country of the east; the jewelled nightscapes of the cities; the caribou-specked tundra of the North; and the exotic and often unappreciated beauty of the prairies.
This stunning book opens our eyes to the remarkable beauties of our country, a land so vast that no inhabitant can ever witness all its treasures. Photographs like these may well be the closest most of us will ever get to seeing Ellesmere Island or the Yukon Mountains; how fortunate that we are able to view them through the eyes of gifted photographers.
The two essays included in this book complement and enrich the reader's appreciation of the photographs. Robert Fulford, Canada's most respected critic and commentator on the Canadian scene, describes the way in which otir spectacular geography has shaped the character of our country. In his equally thoughtful introduction, editor J.A. Kraulis outlines what the photographers set out to achieve. Vissza