Lost Foote Photos: December 2011

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Winnipeg Tribune obituary

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This obituary for L.B. Foote (1873-1957) appeared in this undated clipping from the Winnipeg Tribune. Clipping courtesy of the Foote Collection at the Archives of Manitoba.

(Foote died on Saturday, July 13, 1957.)

THE BLURB!

"L.B. Foote's Winnipeg is a boomtown of staggering abundance and meanest privation.

His city teems with a mad sense of community - everywhere people, people and more people, throngs of new citizens forever gathering, spilling over, lining up; everyone held rapt and almost intoxicated by grand ceremony, fevered ritual or political upheaval.

So much giddy newness plopped down on top of the nations that came before and on the timeless, pristine, soon-to-be -bedevilled plains.

Foote honours human, city and prairie alike with his peculiar and ennobling eye."
— Guy Maddin, director of My Winnipeg.

About Lost Foote Photos

In fall 2012, University of Manitoba Press will publish a new book of photos by Winnipeg’s most famous photographer, L.B. Foote (1873-1957), prepared and introduced by award-winning historian Esyllt Jones.

There are approximately 2,500 images at the Manitoba Archives but that’s just a fraction of the photographs Foote took in the more than five decades that he documented Winnipeg and parts of Manitoba outside the perimeter.

University of Manitoba Press went looking for some of the lost Foote photos...and Manitobans responded, rummaging through their attics and photo albums.

UMP would like to thank everyone who submitted photos and shared their stories!