NOTMAN'S WORLD

Duration: 29 min

Year Published: 1989

Creator: Albert Kish

Description: This documentary short is a portrait of Canadian photographer William Notman. Photography was still in its infancy when he opened his first studio in Montreal in the late 1850s. He rapidly turned his art, and a budding technology, into a highly successful business. Within 5 years he was appointed Photographer to the Queen. Not content with doing mere portraiture, he saw photography as a means of documenting history. With the use of props in his studio, composite photographs, and calling on his background as a trained artist, Notman immortalized the people and places of Canada. Directed by Albert Kish - 1989 | 29 min

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVLUb6NcB2o

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