| The North End: Photographs by John Paskievich Contributor(s): Paskievich, John (Author), Osborne, Stephen (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0887557007 ISBN-13: 9780887557002 Publisher: University of Manitoba Press OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Award-winning documentary maker John Paskievich has made his name making films about places and people throughout the world. As the film reviewer for the Toronto Globe and Mail wrote, Paskievich does not deal so much with people who fall between the cracks as stand astride them. His films have chronicled young Czechs trying to be North American Indians, the Roma community in Slovakia, a group of Inuit sculptors in the far North, and an isolated group of Orthodox Russians on the Canadian prairies. As a filmmaker, his work has been shown at film festivals throughout the world, including the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto Festival of Festivals. In The North End, Paskievich returns to his first love, photography. His lyrical black-and-white photographs chronicle a community closer to home, the iconic Winnipeg neighborhood in which he grew up. Winnipeg's North End is the great Canadian melting pot, the place "north of the tracks" that welcomed waves of immigrants from central and eastern Europe at the turn of the last century. It is a place that spawned some of Canada's greatest cultural and political events and personalities. Over the last forty years, it has also become a place in which Old World immigrants and their descendants mingle uneasily with a new wave of immigration of Aboriginal Canadians. Paskievich's black-and-white photographs capture the vibrancy and conflicts of the North End and other urban spaces like it, places where history, poverty, and resilience come together. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries - Photography | Individual Photographers - General |
| Dewey: 971.274 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 10.44" W x 8.31" (2.01 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Geographic Orientation - Manitoba - Locality - Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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| Publisher Description: Winnipeg's North End has informed the Canadian mythology and influenced the national psyche. The North End also divides and defines the city of Winnipeg, shaping its politics and sense of identity. It is here where First Nations and Old and New World immigrants cross the boundaries of ethnicity, class, and culture, creating a complex multicultural community. There is joy here, and pride, and poverty, and richness, and beauty. John Paskievich grew up in the North End. In these photographs, taken between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, he set out to explore the North End he knew in his youth. What he found were traces of it, captured in the stillness in which the past still lingers and in the dignity and singularity of its inhabitants. |
Contributor Bio(s): Paskievich, John: - John Paskievich was born in Austria of Ukrainian parents and immigrated to Canada as a young child. His photographs have been widely exhibited and published in various periodicals and in several books, including A Voiceless Song: Photographs of the Slavic Lands, introduced by Josef Skvorecky, and A Place Not Our Own. His documentary films have garnered critical praise and won numerous awards. Paskievich lives in Winnipeg.Osborne, Stephen: - Stephen Osborne is the founder and editor of Geist magazine and is the author of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World. |