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In This Place - book cover -
- In This Place - book cover
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In this Place is about the images, both written and graphic, of the themes that define the city Calgary. The overlooked, the feral, the discarded, the unexpected and mysterious. It is about looking backward and forward, inwardly and outwardly, like glimpses through a train window. These images are about the capturing of all the tiny moments and improbablke fragments, all theexuisite little slivers pulled from the stuff of everyday life. They are about the importance of finding beauty, meaning, and mystery in the place you live. These images are about a city that is in the process of transforming itself.
George Webber, the photographer/author of books on Hutterites (A World Within), natives (People of the Blood), and the last days of Calgary's now demolished downtown taverns (Last Call), has turned his lens toward what many feel is his finest work, a portrait of the real Calgaery as it approached, then passed, the million mark. In his own words, "Calgary is always becoming something else, moving on, moving up, moving out, making room for something new, breaking your heart in little ways. But perhaps there is something here that no amount of steel and glass and asphalt can conceal. These pictures make me hungry for the way the city was."
Aritha van Herk is universally recognized as one of Canada's most original and imaginative writers. She is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books, including Judith (winner of the Seal First Novel Award); The Tent Peg; No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey; Places Far From Ellesmere; Restlessness; In Visible Ink; A Frozen Tongue; and Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta, which won the Grant MacEwan Author's Award. She is a passionate lover, critic and devourer of all aspects of Calgary, from its unpredictable history to its unfulfilled potential.
978-1-897181-59-1, 112 pages, HC, $40
For review copies or further information, contact Lyn Cadence at 403.465.2345 or lyn@cadencepr.ca