A Day in the Life of Canada

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The result is a stunning documentation of Canada, Canadians and their lives. In A Day in the Life of Canada, you will go on assignment with members of the most illustrious photography team ever assembled. Journey to an Ontario farm community where life has remained unchanged for a hundred years. Hopscotch with children across Newfoundland ice floes. Observe a mother polar bear and her young at the North Pole and jóin a rehearsal at the National Ballet School.
A Day in the Life of Canada is both the scrapbook of a nation and a tribute to its people.
On June 8, 1984 one hundred of the world's leading photographers were given the most unique and challenging assignment of their careers: to capture an entire nation on film in the course of a single day.
In the late spring of 1984, a strange thing happened on the world's newsfronts. In London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Central America and the Middle East, 100 of the world's foremost photojournalists—the... Tovább

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The result is a stunning documentation of Canada, Canadians and their lives. In A Day in the Life of Canada, you will go on assignment with members of the most illustrious photography team ever assembled. Journey to an Ontario farm community where life has remained unchanged for a hundred years. Hopscotch with children across Newfoundland ice floes. Observe a mother polar bear and her young at the North Pole and jóin a rehearsal at the National Ballet School.
A Day in the Life of Canada is both the scrapbook of a nation and a tribute to its people.
On June 8, 1984 one hundred of the world's leading photographers were given the most unique and challenging assignment of their careers: to capture an entire nation on film in the course of a single day.
In the late spring of 1984, a strange thing happened on the world's newsfronts. In London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Central America and the Middle East, 100 of the world's foremost photojournalists—the world-weary, khaki-clad lensmen of the press—packed their cameras in canvas shoulder bags and boarded planes.
They flew to Canada, the second largest country on earth, to capture the life of a nation on film during the course of one twenty-four-hour period.
Imagine what it was like. One hundred photojournalists, the best in the world, all working on one of the most challenging assignments of their careers, to create a visual time capsule for future generations—A Day in the Life of Canada.
Photojournalist Rick Smolan, editor Dávid Cohen and glamor photographer Douglas Kirkland had called the photographers together and given them unusual in-structions: Don't try to make the definitive statemeut about Canada. Don't concentrate on the rich, the powerful or the famous. Avoid clichés. Instead, do the hardest thing of all—make extraordinary pictures of or-dinary events.
In A Day in the Life of Canada, you will go on assign-ment with members of the most illustrious photog-raphy team ever assembled. Accompany Toronto Star photographer Andrew Stawicki to an Ontario farm community where life has remained unchanged for a hundred years. Hopscotch across Newfoundland ice floes with Germán photographer Rudi Meisel. Spend a day in the country with Canada's premier nature photographer, Freeman Patterson. Go hunting on Baffin Island with Jack Corn of the Chicago Tribüné. Go to the National Ballet School with Jill Krementz and to a Yukon honky-tonk with Pulitzer prize winner Jay Dickman.
A Day in the Life of Canada, Canada's #1 best seller, is both the scrapbook of a nation, and the first major photography book about the people of Canada. The several hundred color and black and white pictures in this book were chosen from almost 100,000 shot on June 8, 1984. None is twenty-four hours older or younger than any other.
Readers will be guided through "The Day" by special maps indicating where and at what time each photograph was taken. Vissza