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Saskatchewan Book
Photographs by George Webber
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Ideal for readers interested in photography, Canadian prairie culture, rural history, and evocative visual storytelling.
An evocative collection of contemporary photography that shines a light on the charm and disintegration of small towns in Saskatchewan.
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An evocative collection of contemporary photography that shines a light on the charm and disintegration of small towns in Saskatchewan.
Captured over 30 years, the 200 images in this finely wrought exhibition document prairie landscapes and rural structures like no other in recent memory. With skill, sensitivity, and a renowned eye for detail, documentary photographer George Webber once again transports the viewer with his lens across time, geography, and history.
Bright colours, sun-baked facades, endless horizons, and straight edges are all beautifully haunted by the shadow of time's inevitable decay and nature's slow embrace of abandoned human settlements. The varying shades of prairie-blue skies can hum with optimistic vibrancy, while fists of cloud can march toward an unknowable front.
Saskatchewan Book shows us that small prairie towns remain beacons of affection and bastions of memory, all the while succumbing to the enigmatic fate that eventually enfolds all living things.
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The photographs evoke deep narrative and emotion with minimalist imagery, akin to the brief, impactful form of haiku poetry, as noted by poet Lorna Crozier. She praises the work’s ability to tell poignant stories through the remnants of vanished human presence.
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ISBN: 9781771604406
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 22 October 2020
Country: Canada
Imprint: Rocky Mountain Books
Illustration: colour photographs throughout
Contributors:
- By George Webber
- Foreword by Lorna Crozier
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 215.0mm
Height: 190.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
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About the Author
George Webber is a renowned documentary photographer whose previous books include Prairie Gothic (RMB 2012) and Last Call (RMB 2010). He is the recipient of numerous National Magazine Awards (Canada), two Awards of Excellence from the Society for News Design (USA) and the International Documentary Photography Award (Korea). His photographs have been featured in American Photo, Canadian Geographic, Lenswork Quarterly, Photolife, The New York Times and Swerve magazine. In 1999 he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in recognition of his contributions to the visual arts in Canada. Lorna Crozier's work has won many awards, including the Governor Generals Award in 1992 (for Inventing the Hawk), the first prize for poetry in the CBC Literary Competition, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry in 1992, a National Magazine Award in 1995, and two Pat Lowther Memorial Awards (1993 and 1996) for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. She has published fourteen books of poetry, most recently, Whetstone. Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, she now lives in British Columbia, where she is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Victoria.
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