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photographs
portraits
The years of making portraits with a view camera developed into an improvisational practice, slowing time, allowing space for the unofficial to emerge and for momentary, transient possibilities of an exchange between strangers.
from the series, Family Arrangements,
"Bonni and Her Children, Sardis 1974"
©robert minden
collection: National Gallery of Canada
from the series Artist Portraits,
"Thomas Jefferson Scribner, musical saw player", Santa Cruz, California 1972©robert minden
from the series Portrait of my Daughters,
"Andrea and Dewi with trike" 1973©robert minden
collection: National Gallery of Canada
"The dynamic of the moment was everything… a theatre of encounters between strangers, or family members, reaching through the medium of the camera was the driving force.” Martha Langford, "The Child in Me: A Figure of Photographic Creation" in Depicting Canada’s Children, Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2009) Loren Lerner (Editor)
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