Описание: Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction
George Taylors vivid New Brunswick of yesteryear comes to life.
The photographs of George Taylor (1838-1913) offer viewers a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century New Brunswick. Taylors career coincided with a period when photographers began to provide Canadians with images of the wilderness. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of Indigenous guides, Taylor travelled not only through settled parts of New Brunswick, but also into the wilderness of the north, providing views of hitherto unfamiliar and unknown terrain and helping to popularize the outdoors as a venue for canoeing, hunting and fishing.
Taylors work is also a record of rural and farm life on the rich floodplains and intervals of the Saint John River valley, of daily life in Fredericton, and of the large-scale expansion of railways in the province. Captured in the slow seconds of his camera, George Taylors photographs illumined landscapes, people, and the seismic changes taking place at the cusp of the new century.
The first book of Taylors photographs, Slow Seconds presents a curated selection of one hundred photographs together with an account of the beginnings of photography and Taylors life and work.
