Slow Seconds
The Photography of George Thomas Taylor
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2019
- Category
- Landscapes, Historical, Essays, Regional
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781773101361
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $35.00
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Description
Finalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)
The photographs of George Taylor (1838-1913) offer viewers a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century New Brunswick. Taylor's career coincided with a period when photographers began to provide Canadians with images of the "wilderness." Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of Indigenous guides, Taylor travelled not only through settled parts of New Brunswick, but also into the wilderness of the north, providing views of hitherto unfamiliar and unknown terrain and helping to popularize the outdoors as a venue for canoeing, hunting and fishing.
Taylor's work is also a record of rural and farm life on the rich floodplains and intervals of the Saint John River valley, of daily life in Fredericton, and of the large-scale expansion of railways in the province. Captured in the "slow seconds" of his camera, George Taylor's photographs illumined landscapes, people, and the seismic changes taking place at the cusp of the new century.
The first book of Taylor's photographs, Slow Seconds presents a curated selection of one hundred photographs together with an account of the beginnings of photography and Taylor's life and work.
About the authors
Ronald Rees is a former professor of historical geography who taught at the University of Saskatchewan and, as adjunct professor, at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. He has written books on the landscape and settlement of the Canadian prairies, on garden history, on science and industry in nineteenth-century Wales, and on United Empire Loyalist settlements in the Maritimes. He was born in Wales and for the past twenty-five years he has lived in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
Joshua Green is the Photo Archivist at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. He has published on the visual history and early photography of New Brunswick.
Awards
- Short-listed, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)
Editorial Reviews
"This beautiful collection ... invites readers to enjoy each image as it was captured — slowly."
<i>Maritime Edit</i>
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