Portraits Of Canadian Writers

Author : Bruce Meyer
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 0889848386
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Writers written by Bruce Meyer and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Ray Robertson, Bronwen Wallace—these are just a few authors whose unforgettable words have made them icons of Canadian literary expression. In Portraits of Canadian Writers, Bruce Meyer presents his own personal experience of these and many more seminal Canadian authors, sharing their portraits alongside amusing anecdotes that reveal personality, creativity, and humour. Meyer’s snapshots, both visual and textual, reveal far more than just physical appearance. He captures tantalizing glimpses into the creative lives of writers, from contextual information of place and time to more intangible details that reveal persona, personality and sources of imaginative inspiration. Through these portraits, Meyer has amassed a visual archive of CanLit that illustrates and celebrates an unparalleled generation of Canadian authorship.

Author : Bruce Meyer
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 0889843961
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Writers written by Bruce Meyer and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Ray Robertson, Bronwen Wallace—these are just a few authors whose unforgettable words have made them icons of Canadian literary expression. In Portraits of Canadian Writers, Bruce Meyer presents his own personal experience of these and many more seminal Canadian authors, sharing their portraits alongside amusing anecdotes that reveal personality, creativity, and humour. Meyer’s snapshots, both visual and textual, reveal far more than just physical appearance. He captures tantalizing glimpses into the creative lives of writers, from contextual information of place and time to more intangible details that reveal persona, personality and sources of imaginative inspiration. Through these portraits, Meyer has amassed a visual archive of CanLit that illustrates and celebrates an unparalleled generation of Canadian authorship.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Tata
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889841314
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Writers written by Sam Tata and published by Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1991 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `A portrait,' Sam has said, `is a passport to friendship', and many of his anecdotes concern his great company of friends, friends who tend to be writers, photographers, painters, musicians, architects, and actors. This volume contains the portraits of 50 of Sam's literary friends. Although these portraits are a record of people at a certain time and place, they are not merely an archive. These portraits are works of art in their own right. The background details are not merely descriptive. Sam is an artist and a considerable one. His pictures are carefully composed. He is, of course, concerned with capturing the `inner lines of force in the being of his subject' but he is equally concerned with the making of a picture, with composition, with shapes, with blackness and whiteness. In Sam's portraits, psychological and artistic concerns fuse. The images define both us and him and will live on to become a part of our national heritage. He has said of portraiture: `The sitter must be willing to be photographed. The photographer must be sensitive to the sitter. And a rapport between the two has to be established.' At the beginning of a photographic session, people are wary. Sam works at establishing the necessary rapport through conversation. He usually takes 24 or 36 exposures and his experience is that the better pictures start to arrive somewhere in the middle of the roll -- that is, when the sitter has moved from acquiescence to active participation in the session. Another way Sam helps the sitter relax is by using the natural light in the familiar surroundings of the subject's home; he sees the studio and the paraphernalia of tripods, flashes, and reflectors as inhibiting. Many of Sam's portraits, then, offer us the almost voyeuristic pleasure of observing domestic interiors for there are usually things in Sam's pictures -- ornaments, paintings, books, plants, pianos, sculpture, dogs, furniture. These furnishings and possessions further express and suggest the sitter's personality; Sam has actually called these photographs `environmental portraits'.

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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Writers written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Tata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Writers [manuscript] written by Sam Tata and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terence Byrnes
Publisher : Vehicule Press
ISBN 13 : 9781550652482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closer to Home written by Terence Byrnes and published by Vehicule Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closer to Home: The Author and the Author Portrait fixes its searching and intimate gaze on writers as they have seldom been seen before. These striking images were captured at a location where the writer lives, works or plays. Each is accompanied by a crisp and insightful vignette about the experience of photographing the writer, thoughts about the uses of artists' portraits, and, often, a touch of refined literary gossip. Terence Byrnes, whose own collection of short stories, Wintering Over, garnered critical praise, removed himself from the limelight tobehind the camera to photograph other writers. For a period of ten years, he visited writers in their homes and, while discussing the writing life with them, photographed them at their ease. "The literary portrait," Byrnes says, "had become moribund, showing writers as stalwart or fetching in various degrees, and barricaded by books like a university don from a British novel of manners. These portraits show the photographer as an interloper to whom the writer must react as an individual, not as a role." The history of the literary portrait and its place in the creation of commercial success and literary canons will be examined in an introductory critical essay, "The Seductive Frontispiece."

Author : Sam Tata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PORTRAITS OF CANADIAN WRITERS. EDITED BY JOHN METCALF. written by Sam Tata and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William P. McElligott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773555105
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Portrait of Canada's Parliament written by William P. McElligott and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Canadian architectural and cultural marvel, Canada's Parliament Building, or Centre Block, has been the focal point of Canadian parliamentary democracy for much of the past century. As the Parliament Building, with its iconic gothic revival Peace Tower, approaches its 100th anniversary, it will be closed for a decade or more for much-needed renovations. Although an entire generation will miss the opportunity to see this building's wonders, A Portrait of Canada's Parliament provides a permanent written and illustrated record of it at this watershed moment. With spectacular photographs by William McElligott and inspiring thematic articles by established professional subject specialists, this volume collectively paints a portrait of one of Canada's greatest symbols from its origins into the present and on to the plans for its future. The Parliament Building, which contains both the Senate and the House of Commons, is unveiled from various angles: the astonishing history, the visionary architects, the lofty aspirations, the democratic functions housed within, the urban features, the picturesque landscape, the powerful architecture, the engineering ingenuity, the decorations' symbolic meanings, the harsher memories, the evolution echoing a growing nation, and the challenges, opportunities, and technological innovations for the most ambitious architectural renovation in Canada's history - a revitalized Parliament Building fit for the twenty-first century and beyond. This portrait provides, for the first time, an intimate analysis of the character and spirit of Canada's Parliament, and how the building's design, contents, and setting have performed their role so successfully for successive generations of Canadians.

Author : Mary Alice Downie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525262609
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Climate written by Mary Alice Downie and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman's wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of a dangerous voyage out from France, a famous children's writer writes home about the fun of canoeing, and a German general's wife describes habitant customs. All demonstrate how women's experiences not only shared, but helped shape this new country.