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The lost city : Ian MacEachern's photographs of Saint John / John Leroux.
LIBRA F1044.5.S14 L47 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leroux, John, 1970- author, organizer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- MacEachern, Ian, 1942---Exhibitions.
- MacEachern, Ian.
- Urban renewal--New Brunswick--Saint John--History--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Urban renewal.
- History.
- Saint John (N.B.)--History--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Saint John (N.B.).
- Saint John (N.B.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Documentary photography--Exhibitions.
- Documentary photography.
- Manners and customs.
- New Brunswick--Saint John.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition, pictorial works.
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 172 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Ian MacEachern's photographs of Saint John
- Place of Publication:
- Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, [2018]
- Summary:
- "From the 1950s through the 1970s, cities throughout North America engaged in disruptive periods of massive "urban renewal" of older, poorer areas. Neighbourhoods were razed to make way for freeways, housing projects, public amenities, sports arenas, and subdivisions. Planned communities replaced older urban neighbourhoods that had evolved over generations. Ian MacEachern worked for CHSJ-TV in Saint John from 1962 to 1966, and he witnessed the profound transformation of Canada's oldest city as it was buffeted by the forces of reconstruction and modernization. He also recorded the life of the city, its neighbourhoods, its residents, and social life in more than a thousand photographs. Like the documentary photographic works of Walker Evans, Dorothy Lange, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, MacEachern's photographs show an extraordinary power in their honest depictions of fleeting moments and a raw humanity. For A Lost Saint John: The Photographs of Ian MacEachern, architectural and social historian John Leroux hasselected seventy-five black-and-white photographs drawn from MacEachern's exceptional archive and written an accompanying essay that examines the recent history of Saint John and the effect of urban renewal on civic architecture, historic neighbourhoods, and community structure. A Lost Saint John will accompany a touring exhibition, curated by John Leroux and organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, that will open in Saint John in the fall of 2018."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- This publication accompanies a touring exhibition held at various venues in the fall of 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- MacEachern, Ian, 1942- Photographs. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 9781773100814
- 1773100815
- OCLC:
- 1055266106
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