Ted Grant, the undisputed father of Canadian photojournalism, has made a career out of being in the right place at the right time. Over his sixty years in the business, he has immortalized some of the greatest events in history and caught some of the world’s most famous and elusive subjects in rare moments of unaffected humanity. From Pierre Trudeau sliding jubilantly down a banister to Ben Johnson in his brief moment of glory at the 1988 Olympics to Sue Rodriguez in her right-to-die campaign, Grant has amassed a collection of over 300,000 photographs—the largest by a single photojournalist in Canadian history.
Based on over fifty interviews with the man himself (as well as with his family, friends and colleagues across Canada) and extensive research of the Ted Grant Special Collections in Ottawa, this book is both an iconic and an intimate portrait of the second half of the twentieth century, Canada’s coming of age, and the man who saw it all through the lens of his camera.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2013.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 070.4/9092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Includes index Includes over 100 photographs by Ted Grant Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781927527368 9781927527344
- LCCN
- TR140.G73
- LCCN Item number
- F39 2013eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (224 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00233567 (OCoLC)865475257 (CaOOCEL)446690
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Introduction 12
- 1: Gift of a Lifetime 18
- 2: Oh, To Be a Cowboy! 28
- 3: A Taste of Photojournalism 68
- 4: Martha 100
- 5: Not a Posed Portrait 116
- 6: The Medical Years 134
- 7: A War Correspondent’s Reflections 158
- 8: The Real Celebrities 170
- 9: Those Who Can, Teach 194
- Afterword 206
- Appendix 208
- List of Works 218
- Index 221
- Acknowledgements 224
