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Author : Sarah Bassnett
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773546714
An innovative study on photography's role in the liberal reform of early twentieth-century Toronto.
Author : Sarah Bassnett
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780228013808
In 1911, when Arthur Goss was hired as Toronto’s first official photographer, the city was at a critical juncture. Industry expansion and population growth produced pressing concerns about housing shortages, sanitation, and the health and welfare of citizens. Dispelling popular misconceptions, Picturing Toronto demonstrates that Goss and other photographers did not simply document the changing conditions of urban life – their photography contributed to the development of modern Toronto and shaped its inhabitants. Drawing on archival sources from the early twentieth century, Sarah Bassnett investigates how a range of groups, including the municipal government, social reformers, and the press, used photography to reconfigure the urban environment and constitute liberal subjects. Through a series of case studies, including the construction of the Bloor Viaduct, civic beautification plans, urban reform in “the Ward,” immigration and citizenship, and Goss’s portrait photography, Bassnett exposes how photographs were at the heart of debates over what the city should look like, how it should operate, and under what conditions it was appropriate for people to live. This lavishly illustrated book is the first study to treat images as vital elements that shaped Toronto’s social and political history. Interdisciplinary in its approach, Picturing Toronto displays the complex entanglements between photography and urban modernity.
Author : Gail Edwards,Judith Saltman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442622821
The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Canadian identity, as seen through the lens of children's publishing over two centuries. Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman illuminate the connection between children's publishing and Canadian nationalism, analyse the gendered history of children's librarianship, identify changes and continuities in narrative themes and artistic styles, and explore recent changes in the creation and consumption of children's illustrated books. Over 130 interviews with Canadian authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, critics, and other contributors to Canadian children's book publishing, document the experiences of those who worked in the industry. An important and wholly original work, Picturing Canada is fundamental to our understanding of publishing history and the history of childhood itself in Canada.
Author : William Kilbourn,Rudi Christl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN : LCCN:78305687
Author : Steve MacKinnon,Karen Teeple,Michele Dale
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781552774373
Twenty-five fascinating images that offer a 360º panorama of the Toronto's downtown in 1856-57 mark the beginning of the use of photographs to document Toronto's growth, its achievements, its great civic works, and its citizenry. Since 1856, the City of Toronto has been commissioning photographs to document and to promote it. This book, published to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the city's incorporation, brings together more than 100 of these images, selected by city archivists from their collection of hundreds of thousands. Waterworks, roads, and bridges, many of them familiar landmarks today, are seen as they are being built. The Bloor Street Viaduct, the R. C. Harris water filtration plant, and the old and new city halls are all celebrated in these images. Toronto's citizens are also captured in these photographs, going about their affairs on the street, as proud workers, or as spectators at public events. At times, in an effort to raise public concern about poverty and poor housing conditions, city photographers have documented conditions for residents in low-income neighbourhoods. Some of these photographs are included here, in an impressive series of poignant images. In the past fifty years, as Toronto has grown into the cosmopolitan metropolis it is now, city photographers have recorded the construction of key projects like the Yonge Street subway, the new City Hall and the CN Tower while documenting major public events and celebrations. This book offers a visual overview of Toronto's history and at the same time documents attitudes and values expressed by City officials, from 1857 to the present.
Author : Toronto Public Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:630071621
Author : Rudi Christl,William Kilbourn
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN : 0771044968
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN : OCLC:932908760
Author : Toronto Public Libraries
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014059860
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Charis Cotter
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770880689
Winner of Heritage Toronto's Award of Excellence, Book category in 2005. The pace of life in Toronto picked up after 1919 and never slowed down again. During the 1920s and '30s, Toronto went through massive changes that affected the physical and the social life of the city. In these two decades between World War I and World War II, Toronto was finding its place in the swiftly changing world of the twentieth century. Toronto Between the Wars features 180 archival photographs of Toronto during this fascinating period. Each picture is accompanied by a captivating story about some aspect of life in the city. During this period, cars became commonplace, the downtown skyline changed as new skyscrapers were built, and women's roles changed dramatically. Then the Depression sent the economy into a tailspin, unemployment became rampant and poverty took its toll. People struggled to afford the basic necessities and lived under the shadow of a growing threat of another war in Europe. The text reveals little known facts, such as how a leading retail family kept their interest in a major downtown property secret for twenty years. Photographs capture unguarded moments with startling immediacy: a tired but happy group of disheveled merrymakers waiting for a bus; two women in flouncy bridesmaid dresses; an old man cleaning the statue of Queen Victoria; and children buying fish from an itinerant fishmonger. With intriguing pictures and absorbing text, Toronto Between the Wars offers a rare opportunity to observe life in Toronto during a critical time in its history.
Author : Toronto Public Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015027954380
Author : William James
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781550286786
William James' Toronto Views offers an appealing look at the city through the eyes of master photographer William James, a prolific photojournalist who took more than 10,000 images of the city during the early twentieth century. This book reproduces over 100 images from the 5,800 lantern slides in the James collection at the City of Toronto Archives, many hand-tinted. There are early views of the waterfront and downtown, of magnificent homes, of prominent figures at public events and ordinary people going about daily life. Art writer Christopher Hume provides an engaging introductory essay that discusses James, his work, and early twentieth-century Toronto. William James' Toronto Views offers an intimate and unparalleled portrait of the burgeoning city as it grew into the twentieth century.
Author : Toronto Public Libraries. George H. Locke Memorial Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN : 0919486509
The town of North Toronto was annexed to Toronto in December, 1912.
Author : Manfredo Massironi,Translated by N Bruno
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135679378
Drawings are not simply tools for communication but important instruments for investigating reality and its structure. This pathbreaking book, richly illustrated, with exercises for readers, illuminates the complex interactions between the material
Author : Lora Senechal Carney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773551923
From the Roaring Twenties and the Group of Seven to the Automatistes and the early Cold War, Canadian artists lived through and embodied an era of global tumult and change. With an interweaving of historical narrative, lavish illustrations, and writings by many of Canada's most revered cultural figures, Lora Senechal Carney illuminates the lives, perspectives, and works of the era's painters and provides glimpses of the sculptors, poets, dancers, critics, and filmmakers with whom they associated. Canadian Painters in a Modern World gives readers direct access to a carefully curated selection of writings, artworks, photos, and other documents that help to reconstruct the public spheres in which artists including Paul-Émile Borduas, Emily Carr, Alex Colville, Lawren Harris, David Milne, and Pegi Nicol MacLeod circulated. Each of the book’s eight chapters consists of a narrative about a key issue or debate, focusing on the relationship of art to politics and society, and on how these are negotiated in an individual's life. Relating artistic engagement with and responses to the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Cold War, Senechal Carney discovers a common desire for new connections between art and life. Revealing continuities, ruptures, and watershed moments, Canadian Painters in a Modern World showcases artistic production within specific socio-political contexts to shed new light on Canadian art during three decades of conflict and crisis.