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George Steeves (b. ca. 1945) is a Canadian art photographer noted for his highly personal work. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Art refers to a diverse range of Human activities creations and expressions that are appealing to the Senses or Emotions of a human individual A photographer is a person who takes a Photograph using a Camera. He has been called by art historian and curator Martha Langford, “among the foremost figures of contemporary Canadian photography. See also History An historian is an individual who studies and writes about History, and is regarded as an Authority on it ”[1]

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Life

Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, he attended school in Ottawa and studied engineering at Carleton University and Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Moncton ( is a Canadian city located in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. This article is about the university in Ottawa Ontario Canada The City of Ithaca (named for the Greek island of Ithaca) sits on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York He has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 1973 and worked as an engineer with the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, where he was supervisor of mechanical and oceanographic systems development before retiring in 2006. The City of Halifax (est 1841 is the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County The Bedford Institute of Oceanography ( BIO) is a major Canadian government Ocean Research facility located in Dartmouth in the In the 1970s, he began making urban landscape photographs using an 8x10 negative camera and developing and printing his own work. In 1981, inspired by local performance artist Ellen Pierce, he decided to focus on figurative work. Apparently needing to know his subjects very well before photographing them, he often spends more time talking than actually taking pictures. He has forged deep friendships with some of his subjects, whom he has continued to photograph on numerous occasions. [2] With this approach, and the trust he engenders in his subjects, he has achieved a deeply personal, intimate body of work.

Probably because of the often erotic nature of his pictures, he has worked largely in obscurity within his own community. A 1989 exhibit at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design was publicly opposed and posters were removed. The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University is a post-secondary Art school located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. After the show ended, his works were damaged when they were removed from the walls. [3] A 1993 exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa was more successful. The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP ( Le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine (MCPC is a gallery of Canada's best art and His work has also been shown at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montreal. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located directly on the shore of the Øresund in Humlebæk 35 kilometers north of Copenhagen A thirty-year retrospective exhibition was mounted at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery in 2007. His works are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and Mount Saint Vincent University.

Notes

  1. ^ Martha Langford, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, "George Steeves: 1979-1993" Exhibition Catalogue (1994)
  2. ^ S. C. Flynn, The Coast, February 22, 2007, "Elementary: Self-taught photographer George Steeves has been taking provocative shots—of artists, of lovers, of himself—for more than three decades", p. 15
  3. ^ S. C. Flynn, p. 17

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