Name Geoffrey James | Role Photographer | |
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Education Wadham College, Oxford (1964) Books Angel Magic: The Ancient Art of Summoning and Communicating with Angelic Beings Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
Geoffrey james 2012 canada council laureate
Geoffrey James (1942, St. Asaph, Wales ) is a Canadian photographer, living in Toronto. His black-and-white panoramic landscapes of the built landscape explore the relationship between human society and its surroundings.
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- Geoffrey james 2012 canada council laureate
- If i were you episode 259 secret diary w geoffrey james jake and amir podcast
- Life and work
- Honours
- References
If i were you episode 259 secret diary w geoffrey james jake and amir podcast
Life and work
James began his working career as a journalist. He moved to Canada in 1966, working for Time magazine in Montreal. He moved into arts administration in 1975, working for the Canada Council in Ottawa. In the mid 1970s, he began to take photography more seriously and by 1982, when he left the Canada Council, he was exhibiting his photography regularly.
James works in series and much of his photography is available as books.
A retrospective of his work, Utopia/Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James was mounted by the National Gallery of Canada in 2008. Between 1987 and 2002, he used large-format and panoramic film cameras to record landscape that has felt the impact of human activity. The earlier work examined idealized landscapes of pleasure gardens followed by an exploration of asbestos mining sites and the US/Mexico border fence in southern California.