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Portrait of Charles Gagnon by John Max [graphic material]

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Date:

ca. 1972.

Reference:

R11812-0-7-E, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3672860

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Portrait of Charles Gagnon by John Max
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Date(s):

ca. 1972.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 photograph: gelatin silver print; 58.5 X 39.3 cm.

Language of material:

English

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The item consists of a portrait of Charles Gagnon, ca. 1972 by John Max.

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Estate of Charles Gagnon: Mrs. Michiko Gagnon

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Max, John, b. 1936

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Max, John, b. 1936 : John Max was born in Montreal in 1936 to parents of Ukrainian origin who had arrived in Canada in the 1920s. He studied painting with Arthur Lismer and music at the McGill Conservatory of Music before discovering photography in the late 1950s through Lutz Dille, whose work, strongly influenced by Europeans such as Cartier-Bresson, Kertesz, and Doisneau, brought the subjectivity of the photographer to the fore.

Throughout the 1960s, Max worked on assignment for varios magazines and for the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada. Max also produced photographs for the Christian Pavilion at Expo 67. He represented Canada at the Fifth Biennial in Paris in 1967, and took part in Four Montreal Photographers, an exhibition organized and circulated by the National Gallery in 1968.

Max's photographic vision reached its maturity with the Open Passport-Passeport infini exhibition organized by the NFB's Still Photography Division and shown at The Photo Gallery in Ottawa in 1972. In this series of 160 black-and-white photographs, mostly taken in the 1960s, Max used the medium as a tool in introspection, to create a diary of his life.

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Signed in ink, verso: "BLC: "PHOTO BY: JOHN MAX"

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PA-215268 : Colour slide also available

Subject heading:

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Portraits

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2006-00350-X
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]
To be viewed with the assistance of the Portrait Gallery of Canada.

Volume [R11812]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [R11812] PA-215268

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, archival reference number R11812-1
Copyright: Estate of Charles Gagnon: Mrs. Michiko Gagnon
Restrictions on use: None

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