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A giant of 19th-century Canadian photography, Notman with his sons and protegTs established a studio empire that spanned almost 60 years and encompassed 23 studios across the continent. Drawn from hundreds of thousands of images and printed in beautiful 300-line duotone, this selection of 174 images, with accompanying narrative, represents the extraordinary work of the studio as well as the changing face of North America. 9.25x12.5" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Long acknowledged as the giant of nineteenth-century Canadian photography, William Notman – along with his sons and protégées – created perhaps the most vital photographic studio of his day, a venture that spanned almost sixty years and an entire continent. As the authors clearly demonstrate in this stunning new book, Notman’s ambition did not expire at the Canadian border but continued far into the United States; and his photographs chronicled not only the nineteenth century but extended well into the twentieth.
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