Lost Foote Photos: Foote on Flickr!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Foote on Flickr!

We've shared a dozen or so Foote photographs on this blog, but for those of you that need MORE FOOTE PHOTOS and can't wait until the UMP book is out next fall, there's a set of several hundred photos on Flickr, the photo-sharing website.

I've been linking there in my emails...and the person who owns the set has noticed the upsurge in traffic and has posted 64 more photos.

This is one of the 'new' photos and it's officially my new favourite Foote photo. (I have a new favourite every week, it seems...)

The caption is "Miss Winnipeg 1923." I wonder, can anyone identify our snow-shoeing beauty queen?

Ariel Gordon
UMP Promotions/Editorial Assistant

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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!