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Leslie Hossack fonds [textual record (some electronic), graphic material (some electronic)]

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Fonds

Date:

2013-1015.

Reference:

R16379-0-1-E

Type of material:

Photographs, Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5300137

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Leslie Hossack fonds
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Fonds includes:

3 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

2013-1015.

Place:

Canada:

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

33 photographs : glicée prints ; 14x21 in. print on 17x22 in. and 1 panorama triptych 9.25x60 in. on 17x62 in. paper.
ca. 78 digital textual records : PDFs ; various sizes.
22 digital photographs : tiffs ; various sizes.
110 digital photographs : PDFs ; various sizes.
3 MSS versions of books : PDFs
3 self-published books
Positive - paper - colour

Language of material:

English

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Leslie Hossack fonds [textual record (some electronic), graphic material (some electronic)]

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The fonds consists of 33 large scale giclée colour photographic prints by Leslie Hossack. The photographs are from three of her projects, Registered, (the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War) H-Hour (documenting the German bunkers constructed along the Normandy coast before D-Day) and Testament, documenting the Canadian Armed Forces mission in Kosovo in 2013). The fonds also includes a variety of electronic records which provide historical context to the three projects. The prints are a selection of the many photographs taken by Hossack.

Hossack explores history through the photography of the architecture and monuments from specific events. In Registered, Hossack documented various buildings around Vancouver, British Columbia, which were sites for the seizing of property and internment of Japanese Canadians (most Canadian born citizens) following the Canadian declaration of war on Japan in 1941. Hossack photographed the Vancouver City Hall where Japanese Canadians were forced to register as enemy aliens, businesses which were seized by the government and never returned to their Japanese-Canadian owners, and the barns used by the RCMP to contain the detainees before they were relocated to internment camps for the remainder of the war.

In her project H-Hour, Hossack chose to photograph sites in Normandy where Canadians landed, fought, and were buried during the D-Day invasion of German-occupied France. The LAC prints consists of a selection of her photographs of the remains of the bunkers Germany erected along the northern coast of Europe in preparation for the invasion, specifically near Juno Beach, the site where Canadians landed on June 6, 1944.

The fonds also contains a selection of prints from Hossack's project Testament, documenting sites in Kosovo where Canadian Forces personnel were deployed as peacekeepers 2008-2013. Hossack deployed to Camp Film City, the NATO headquarter camp near Pristina as an artist with the Canadian Forces Artists Program 2013, and photographed both the Camp and surrounding region.

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Hossack, Leslie

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Hossack, Leslie : Leslie Hossack is a Canadian fine art photographer. Hossack was a public school teacher, who decided to learn photography after her retirement. The result is a body of work examining the relations between historic people and events of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the public and private spaces they create. Her various projects include, Testament: Leslie Hossack in Kosovo (2015), Registered: The Japanese Canadian Experience During World War II (2015), Cities of Stone, People of Dust (2011), Berlin Studien (2011), Charting Churchill: An Architectural Biography of Sir Winston Churchill, (2016), H-Hour, Normandy 1944 (2017), Freud Through the Looking-Glass (2018), and Traced: The Arcane Legacy of Scotland's Freemasons (2019).
Hossack's work has appeared in many publications, including the Globe and Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, PhotoED, The Churchill Project, The Literary Review (UK), and Apollo. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across Canada and in the United States. Various projects are in the collections of LAC, Global Affairs Canada, the Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum, the Nikkei National Museum, the City of Vancouver, the Canadian War Museum, the National Churchill Library and Center,Washington DC, and the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna.
She has won many awards including an RBC Emerging Artist Finalist in Ottawa in 2015, the 2010 Ottawa Photography Festival Portfolio Award, and the 2011 Applied Arts Award for Architectural Photography and Limited Edition Prints. Hossack's series Stalin's Architectural Legacy was given a top award for historic architecture in the International Photography Awards, 2013.

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Custodial history:

The fonds was acquired directly from the photographer, Leslie Hossack.

Source:

Private

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2019-00668-5
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R16379] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R16379] 2

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

Graphic(photo): electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Electronic container [R16379] R16379-1-X

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records: electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

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Credit: Leslie Hossack / Leslie Hossack fonds / Library and Archives Canada / copy number.
Copyright: Leslie Hossack.

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