Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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world of medicine and has put together an outstanding collection of some of Ted's iconic images alongside previously unpublished or exhibited works.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.