[Leica] EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT-OCTOBER

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Ted,


Congratulations, well deserved.


Gene
  -------------- Original message from <tedgrant at shaw.ca>: --------------


> Hi Crew,In case you have some spare time and like a glass of Champagne 
> here's the announcement of an exhibition of my medical side photoghaphy at 
> the LUZ Photo 
> Gallery in Victoria.
> cheers,
> Dr. ted.
> 
> CALENDAR OF EVENTS
> October 2009
> 
> This forthcoming exhibition and book are two of the great highlights at 
> L?z 
> Gallery this year. Guest curator Duane Prentice combed through the 
> archives 
> of Ted's finest images documenting the world of medicine and has put 
> together an outstanding collection of some of Ted's iconic images 
> alongside 
> previously unpublished or exhibited works.
> 
> For years I have felt that a gallery needed to do a retrospective of Ted 
> Grant's work documenting the medical profession, and for years none have 
> done it? Until now!
> 
> Dr. Ted Grant is truly the farther of Canadian photojournalism. His fifty 
> plus year career has taken him from covering the Six Day War in the Middle 
> East to the Summer Olympic Games in Munich or the children of Chernobyl. 
> He 
> has published seven books, has 280,000 negatives in the National Archive, 
> has lectured at the Leica International Seminar for 15 years, and in 1999 
> he 
> received the CAPIC Lifetime Achievement Award in photography along with 
> the 
> great portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh. In November 2008, the University 
> of Victoria granted and honorary Doctorate of Laws in recognition of Ted's 
> contribution to photography and his dedication to teaching.
> 
> Through all of this Ted Grant has remained a humble and compassionate 
> documentarian, with a keen eye who found a deep personal connection and 
> satisfaction in documenting the work of the medical profession. This work 
> produced two significant books: Doctor's Work, The Legacy of Sir William 
> Osler, and Women in Medicine, A Celebration of their Work; co-authored 
> with 
> fellow photojournalist Sandy Carter.
> 
> The exhibition opens to the public on October 22nd, and we have scheduled 
> a 
> film screening of The Art of Observation produced for Bravo Canada by 
> Asterisk Productions, and evening in conversation with Ted on October 29th.
> 
> L?z Gallery Press
> Limited edition exhibition book, available October 21st, 2009.
> 
> 
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