- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; 1st edition (Nov 1 1984)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0002173808
- ISBN-13: 978-0002173803
- Product Dimensions: 35.6 x 25.9 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #64 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Travel > Canada
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From Library Journal
Like the similar books about Australia, Hawaii, and Japan, each of these offers multiple photographic impressions recorded on a single day. Canada, for coverage of so vast a territory, engaged 100 international photographers (to Israelis ' mostly native 55), to produce 100,000 images (to Israelis ' 40,000), from which its several hundred memorable black-and-white and color illustrations were chosen. The photos juxtapose the industrial to the rural. A lively essay recounts experiences organizing the project and photographing on the actual day (June 8, 1984). The photographers get credit next to their pictures; a map shows where each worked that day; and a lengthy section gives their respective backgrounds, illustrated with past work. Israelis seems earnest, even somber, in comparison. With more than 300 equally fine images, it plays down the individual artists, presenting only a list of credits at the end. The introduction discusses not so much this project as the past and present social and political developments in this young nation, placing the images firmly in context. And indeed, throughout the coverage of agriculture, sheep, beaches, and apartment houses are the ubiquitous soldiers with guns. The heat and aridity are everywhere evident on this day (May 10, 1984) in the ``green'' month, before things are parched to brown. Both books use a chronological arrangement and tell when, to the hour, the pictures were taken, but Canada , being so large, offers maps on each page to show the geographical location of particular images. Both recommended for their candid presentation of ordinary daily life. Kathleen Collins, Library of Congress
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A must for every Canadian home, "A Day in the Life of Canada" is a pictorial celebration of life north of the 49th parallel.
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A peek into the last century,
By dmitry kirsanov (Halifax, NS, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Day In the Life Canada (Hardcover)
When this book's photos were being shot on June 8th, 1986, I was a boy in Soviet Union. The word "perestroika" was not yet invented, and the "iron curtain" was alive and well. Quite naturally, foreign countries seemed more like other planets to us then. Now I live in Canada, and what I find the most revelational about this book is that from today's viewpoint, Canada of 1986 was surprisingly more like the Soviet Union of the same time than it is like modern Canada or modern Russia. Cars, fashions, appliances, even people's smiles and expressions, let alone the book's design and print quality are all unmistakably the "deep into 1980s" style, and many things in the book look like they're from my own childhood. When you live through changes you tend to miss them, and it takes a book like this to remind you of how even the smallest things in life may change within a decade. These changes constitute the real history of our world, not the sequences of prime ministers or general secretaries. I'd highly recommend this book for its historical interest alone - and besides, it has some really great pictures, too.
1.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: A Day In the Life Canada (Hardcover)
I was expecting a beautiful coffee table book, full of gorgeous photos of people and scenery - instead, these are ordinary photos taken by ordinary people, most of which are poor quality and/or uninteresting. I had planned to give this as a gift to someone living in the U.K. but rather than showcase what a beautiful country Canada is, I think this book would deter people from visiting here.
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A peek into the last century,
By dmitry kirsanov - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Day In the Life Canada (Hardcover)
When this book's photos were being shot on June 8th, 1986, I was a boy in Soviet Union. The word "perestroika" was not yet invented, and the "iron curtain" was alive and well. Quite naturally, foreign countries seemed more like other planets to us then. Now I live in Canada, and what I find the most revelational about this book is that from today's viewpoint, Canada of 1986 was surprisingly more like the Soviet Union of the same time than it is like modern Canada or modern Russia. Cars, fashions, appliances, even people's smiles and expressions, let alone the book's design and print quality are all unmistakably the "deep into 1980s" style, and many things in the book look like they're from my own childhood. When you live through changes you tend to miss them, and it takes a book like this to remind you of how even the smallest things in life may change within a decade. These changes constitute the real history of our world, not the sequences of prime ministers or general secretaries. I'd highly recommend this book for its historical interest alone - and besides, it has some really great pictures, too.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Day in the Life of Canada,
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This review is from: A Day In the Life Canada (Hardcover)
If you can buy it right, second hand, go ahead, but new it's overpriced for what you get.
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