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With Word and Image: Notman and the Photographically Illustrated Book
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With Word and Image: Notman and the Photographically Illustrated Book
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The Scottish-born William Notman (1826-1891) immigrated to Montreal in 1856 and opened his photographic studio that year. The studio was eventually taken over by his sons and remained in operation in the city until 1935. Notman was Canada's first internationally recognized photographer and renowned for his portraits, landscapes, cityscapes and composites photos. The author describes an often overlooked aspect of Notman's career, his albumen prints that appeared as illustrations in books and periodicals between the early 1860s and the late 1870s. These photographically illustrated books, the author points out, warrant attention as artistic and literary expressions of prevailing political, intellectual and historical concerns of the period, and by contributing to an "imaginative geography" of Canada by helping nineteenth-century viewers to situate themselves in time and space and to visualize collective identity at national and imperial scales.
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Notman: A Visionary Photographer
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Paris, France & Montreal
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Éditions Hazan & McCord Museum
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2016
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144-151
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en
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Schwartz, Joan M. “With Word and Image: Notman and the Photographically Illustrated Book.” In Notman: A Visionary Photographer, edited by Hélène Samson and Suzanne Sauvage, 144–151. Paris, France & Montreal: Éditions Hazan & McCord Museum, 2016.
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