Drive By: A Road Trip with Jeff Thomas
Anna Hudson, Dave Bidini and Andrea Naomi WalshJeff Thomas’ photographs explore the juxtapositions of past and present and of historical imagery and contemporary reality in the relationship between Native and non-Native peoples. These new photographs document a road trip of inter-cultural exploration with Thomas at the wheel. As if from his passing car he gives us ‘snaps’ of historical monuments and public architecture whose designs and facades incorporte depictions of Indians. Seen from Thomas’ perspective the evidence of First Peoples' influence on popular culture and their power within contemporary society is abundant and ominpresent. Three essays accompany a text by the artist. Jeff Thomas is an Iroquois/Onondaga photographer born in Buffalo, New York and now living in Ottawa. His works can be found in many major collections including the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian.
University of Toronto Art Centre (May 2008) 64 pp 46 col. ill. 7 x 9 in softcover 978-0-7727-0656-0 $24.00 Can. ($26.00 U.S. / 19 euros)
The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa / Les mille et un visages d'Ottawa
Karen Love
Working from portraiture - both contemporary and historical - as well as archival photographs, the author traces the social history of Ottawa as a city and as the nation's capital. In doing so she provokes questions about how we have understood the notion of portraiture over the past past 50 years. Donigan Cumming, Evergon, Germaine Koh, Ken Lum and Jeffrey Thomas and even Pierre Elliot Trudeau are just a few of the photographers discussed. In English and French.
Cette publication suscite un questionnement sur notre compréhension du concept du portrait en réunisant une sélection d'œuvres produites depuis 50 ans. Les intentions artistiques visent, notamment, la représentation physique exacte ou une ressemblance éloquente du modèle, ses rapports sociopolitiques, les frontières entre l'archétype et la singularité, entre la théâtralité et l'intimité. Avec, entre autre, les œuvres de Donigan Cumming, Evergon Jeffrey Thomas et Pierre Elliot Trudeau. En français et anglais.
The Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa (2004) 72 pp 56 ill. (17 col.) 9.5 x 6.5 in softcover 1-894906-17-9 $25.00 (16 euros)