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Helena Keizer fonds [graphic material, textual record]

Niveau hiérarchique :

Fonds

Date :

1970-2020, predominant 1970.

Référence :

R17574-0-3-E

Genre de documents :

Documents photographiques, Documents textuels

Trouvé dans :

Archives / Collections et fonds

No d'identification :

6145981

Contexte de cette notice :

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Helena Keizer fonds
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Date(s) :

1970-2020, predominant 1970.

Équivalent bilingue :

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Lieu de création :

Sans lieu, inconnu ou indéterminé

Étendue :

216 photographs : col. transparencies ; 35 mm.
753 photographs : b&w safety negatives ; 35 mm.
28 photographs : contact sheets.
ca. 9 cm of textual records.

Langue du document :

anglais

Portée et contenu :

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In 1967, amateur photographer Helena Keizer and her partner, Edward R. Turner (Canadian harpsichord maker, researcher, lecturer and graphic artist), bought a 27-foot ketch "Interline Forwarder" and joined a small live-aboard community in Coal Harbour, Vancouver, BC.

In June 1970, her neighbour Carol George, invited Helena to join her and her friend Martha on a trip North. Martha was a young Inuk woman living in Vancouver, who was returning to her home village in Taloyoak, Nunavut (formerly Spence Bay) with her two children to visit her mother, Kakotinik, for the summer. The trip lasted 3 months, from June to early September 1970.

As a guest, Helena enjoyed the generosity of Inuit families and created a visual record of her unique experience in the central Arctic, mostly Boothia Peninsula and Kugaaruk, Nunavut (formerly Pelly Bay). She photographed the people, landscape, plants, tools and activities, including seal hunting, fishing, a step-by-step butchery of a seal, Inuit families camping in tents out on the land for the summer fishing season, a demonstration of a few of the famous Inuit string figures, ivory being carved, Inuit art, Northward Airlines pilots and planes, boat building, Inuit hunters, dog teams, etc. Helena photographed, among others, Inuk sculptor Karoo Ashevak. The locations include Bathurst Inlet; Taloyoak (formerly Spence Bay); Long Lake; Pelly River; Kugluktuk (formerly Coppermine); Kugaaruk (formerly Pelly Bay); Wrottesley Inlet; Cape Adelaide; Ulukhaktok (formerly Holman Island); Richardson Islands; Cambridge Bay; Middle Lake; Port Radium and Yellowknife.

The textual documents consist of hand-written letters Helena sent to her partner as a sort of diary of the trip and provide important contextual information to the photographs. After her return to Vancouver, she typed the letters, adding a few more details, clarifications, and some extra anecdotes, as a first draft for a possible book. These additional 200 pages are also part of the collection, as well as some memorabilia (postcards, exhibitions catalogues, invitations, etc.).

Helena Keizer's photos in the North were taken with a brand new camera she bought before the trip: an Asahi Pentax 35mm Single Lens Reflex with a through-the-lens metering system. Her camera kit included a set of extension tubes for extreme close-up photography, a wide-angle lens for interior shots and a modest size telephoto lens. She used the telephoto lens mostly for her portraits using only natural lighting.

Provenance :

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Keizer, Helena, 1945-

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Keizer, Helena, 1945- : Helena Keizer was born on December 1, 1945, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She immigrated to Vancouver with her parents at the age of six years old. Since her childhood, she had a keen interest in photography and in high school she joined the Camera Club. The club had a well-equipped dark room which club members were free to use during lunch hours. There she learned how to develop b&w film and make print enlargements. In the meantime, she read every how-to book on photography she could find and took lots of photographs of family and friends as she explored the medium. The 1955 photography book The Family of Man had a special influence on her approach to photographing people.

Over the years, she continued to hone her photographic skills in the small darkroom her father built for her in their basement, equipped with a homemade enlarger. She briefly attended Simon Fraser University (1965-1966) and graduated from the University of Victoria in 1994, with a major in European history and a minor in Medieval Studies.

In 2002, after 10 years working in the Composing Room at the Queen's Printer, Victoria, BC, she moved back to Europe where she found pre-print administrative work with Elsevier, an Anglo-Dutch science publishing company. Since retiring in 2012, she continued to pursue her interests in photography, painting, drawing, and European art history. She is currently living in Amsterdam.

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Historique de la conservation :

The collection was acquired directly from the creator, Helena Keizer.

Note sur la citation préféree :

The collection was donated under the married name Helena Turner for legal purposes but the donor wanted the collection to be named and cited after her birth name Helena Keizer.

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2021-00064-8
Pour réserver ou commander des documents

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Documents iconographiques (photo)

[Consultation90 Ouvert]

Volume [R17574] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

Documents textuels

[Consultation90 Ouvert]

Volume [R17574] 3

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

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Credit: Helena Keizer / Helena Keizer Fonds / Library and Archives Canada / Copy no.
Copyright: Copyright assigned to Library and Archives Canada by copyright holder Helena Keizer

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