William Notman was a Scottish-Canadian photographer and businessman. The Notman House in Montreal was his home from 1876 until his death in 1891, and it has since been named after him. Notman was the first photographer in Canada to achieve international recognition.
Melvin Ormond Hammond, known professionally as M. O. Hammond, was a Canadian journalist, photographer, and author.
CAPA, Capa or capa may refer to:
The Toronto Camera Club (TCC) is the oldest photography club in Canada, founded in 1888. It aims "to study and promote the art of photography in all its branches". It is situated in Toronto.
Fred Herzog D.F.A. was a German-born Canadian photographer, who devoted his artistic life to walking the streets of Vancouver as well as almost 40 countries with his Leica, and various Nikon, Kodak and Canon, photographing - mostly with colour slide film - his observations of the street life with all its complexities. Herzog did not achieve critical recognition until the 1990s, when his unusual early use of colour in art photography was recognized. He became celebrated internationally for his pioneering street photography, his understanding of the medium combined with, as he put it, "how you see and how you think" created the right moment to take a picture.
Andrew Wright is a Canadian multimedia artist based in Ottawa, Ontario.
George Hunter was a Canadian documentary photographer who spent seven decades capturing industrial and landscape scenes on film.
Geoffrey James is a Canadian documentary photographer, who lives in Montreal. He was influenced lifelong by Eugene Atget and, like Atget, been fascinated with the built environment. Early in his long career, James made panoramic landscapes. They illuminated his subjects in black-and-white photographs, nature's spaces and the changes wrought by society on both its more idealized creations as in formal gardens as well as its darker side as in the asbestos mining landscape. His aims were two-fold, both "Utopia" and "Dystopia". (Utopia/Dystopia was the title of his book/catalogue and retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in 2008.
Mike Grandmaison is a Canadian freelance photographer specializing in nature - landscapes, plants and wildlife. Grandmaison is well known for his images created of Canada. His commercial assignment photography focuses on architecture, agriculture, nature, the environment, travel and Canadian tourism. Photographs from his extensive and eclectic stock photography collection are licensed through his own website as well as through stock agencies in North America. Grandmaison markets his fine art photographs principally online through 'The Canadian Gallery' of his website.
William C. South was an American photographer and inventor who patented the Solgram, a tri-color system of color photography in 1904 which used a unique camera to take three separate color negatives simultaneously. The negatives were overlaid to make full color photographs on paper treated with three different colored pigments. It was widely exhibited and won several awards, but was not a financial success.
Susan McEachern is an American/Canadian artist. McEachern is best known for her photography, which frequently includes text. Her work follows the feminist idea of "the personal is political," as she often combines images of her own life and personal space to investigate and comment on themes of socialization, gender, sexuality, and the natural world. McEachern has also been a professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University since 1979.
Minna Keene, née Töneböne, was a German-born, self-taught Canadian pictorial portrait photographer, considered "hugely successful".
Dorothy Benson (1901–1996) was a Canadian photographer, best known for her wildlife photography and her involvement with the Montreal Camera Club, the Toronto Guild of Photography, and the Kingston Photographic Club.
The Camera: A Practical Monthly Magazine for Photographers was originally issued by the Columbia Photographic Society of Philadelphia under various subtitles, and continued publication until July 1953.
Evelyn Andrus (1909-1972) was a Canadian photographer. She was the first woman to hold the position of president of the Toronto Camera Club.
Jeff Thomas is an Onondaga Nation photographer, curator, and cultural theorist who works and lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
John Vanderpant was a Dutch-Canadian photographer, gallery owner and author. He made his living doing portrait work while becoming known as a major member of the International Modernist photography movement in Canada. He was a key figure in Vancouver's artistic community.
Michel Lambeth was a Canadian photographer. He made an in-depth photographic study of Toronto during the 1950s and was one of the country's leading photo-journalists during the 1960s.
Blake Fitzpatrick FRSC is a photographer, curator and writer, who is concerned with the photographic representation of the nuclear era, contemporary militarism and the Berlin Wall as a mobile ruin.
Photographs have been taken in the area now known as Canada since 1839, by both amateurs and professionals. In the 19th century, commercial photography focussed on portraiture. But professional photographers were also involved in political and anthropological projects: they were brought along on expeditions to Western Canada and were engaged to document Indigenous peoples in Canada by government agencies.
