Tag: <span>film photography</span>

Toronto
Carlton and Yonge, Toronto, 1982 – © Avard Woolaver

It’s Throwback Thursday (#TBT), and today I’m going back 40 years to a time when many business names had not yet become acronyms. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was not yet CIBC, and Kentucky Fried Chicken was not yet KFC. I spent a lot of time on Carlton street in those days. I lived a little further east near Sherbourne Street, and would see concerts and hockey games at Maple Leaf Gardens, and movies at the Carlton Cinema.

This photo appeals to me in several ways, but most of all because of what the mixed lighting sources do to the colour.  The mixture of neon, fluorescent, and daylight really bring the scene alive. Also, I love Laura Secord chocolate!

Colour Photography

Metro
On the Metro, Montreal, 1983 – © Avard Woolaver

This photo was taken on the Montreal metro in 1983. The colour red really comes alive with Kodachrome film.

Photography

Montreal
Bus Ride, Montreal, 1982 – © Avard Woolaver

In 1967 I visited Montreal with my family to attend Expo ’67. It gave me a love for Montreal that has remained for all these years. What an amazing city! And it looks so good on Kodachrome.

Photography

Self Portrait, Yonge and Dundas, Toronto, 1985 – © Avard Woolaver

When I get older losing my hairMany years from now

– When I’m Sixty Four, by The Beatles

I may have sung this song back in 1985 when I took this self portrait, but never could have imagined the year 2022, or what it is like to be sixty four. Losing my hair, and slowly losing memories. But still feeling happy, alive, and creative.

The future is unknown to everyone, and the best we can do is make good choices in the moment hoping that they will have a positive outcome in the future. In every moment of time we make a choice. Words to live by.

This photo appears in the book: Toronto Days, available at Blurb Books.

Photography

Bloor and Parkside, Toronto, 1984 – © Avard Woolaver

Baking Mixes brings to mind recipes. The recipe for this photo comes via  Lee Friedlander. That is: organize a large amount of information in a dynamic composition. Friedlander is a master of this approach. For documentary photography, it seems the more information, the better. It tells us a lot about the culture and society of a specific time and place. I shall keep on photographing the social landscape with a few different recipes, and hopefully learn some new ones before I’m done.

 

 

Documentary Photography Toronto