Prairie Gothic
Photographs by George Webber
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2013
- Category
- Artists' Books, Photojournalism, Regional
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781927330272
- Publish Date
- Jan 2013
- List Price
- $50.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781927330296
- Publish Date
- Jan 2013
- List Price
- $19.99
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Description
George Webber’s poignant black-and-white photographs transport us into the forgotten, unknowable communities of the Canadian prairies. Throughout the journey, we’re confronted by the mysterious particulars of life, death, landscape and faith. Intimate portraits and the hard facts of the place are woven together to create a body of work that is by turns inspiring, consoling and sometimes achingly sad. Individually, these works startle and challenge. As a collection, they represent a photographer’s decades-long meditation on the ever-changing face of the Canadian West.
About the authors
George Webber is a renowned documentary photographer whose previous collections with Rocky Mountain Books include an illustrated edition of Robert Kroetsch's classic novel Badlands, Prairie Gothic (with Aritha van Herk), Last Call (with Karen Connelly), Alberta Book (with Fred Stenson), and Saskatchewan Book (with Lorna Crozier). He is the recipient of numerous National Magazine Awards (Canada), two Awards of Excellence from the Society for News Design (USA), and an International Documentary Photography Award (Korea). His images 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. George lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Aritha van Herk teaches Creative Writing, Canadian Literature and Contemporary Narrative. Her novels include Judith, The Tent Peg, No Fixed Address (nominated for the Governor General's Award for fiction), Places Far From Ellesmere (a geografictione) and Restlessness. Her critical works, A Frozen Tongue (ficto-criticism) and In Visible Ink (crypto-frictions) stretch the boundaries of the essay and interrogate questions of reading and writing as aspects of narrative subversion. With Mavericks: an Incorrigible History of Alberta (winner of the Grant MacEwan Author's Award) van Herk ventured into new territory, transforming history into a narratological spectacle. That book frames the new permanent exhibition that opened at the Glenbow Museum in 2007. van Herk is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and is active in Canada's literary and cultural life, writing articles and reviews as well as creative work. She has served on many juries, including the Governor General's Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She is well known in the broader community of the city, the province, and the country as a writer and a public intellectual.
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Borrowed Time
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Saskatchewan Book
Photographs by George Webber
Alberta Book
Photographs by George Webber
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An Illustrated Tribute
In This Place
Calgary 2004-2011
Last Call
People of the Blood
A Decade-long Photographic Journey on a Canadian Reserve
A World Within
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Essayist, Novelist, Poet
The Frontier of Patriotism
Alberta and the First World War
Stampede and the Westness of West
The Canadian Postmodern
A Study of Contemporary Canadian Fiction, Reissue
In This Place
Calgary 2004-2011
Bear
One West, Two Myths II
Essays on Comparison
The Tent Peg
Unsettled Pasts
Reconceiving the West through Women's History