Lost Foote Photos: Reprint: Point of View

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Reprint: Point of View

Photographer L. B. Foote documented Winnipeg's early life

Winnipeg Free Press - ON-LINE EDITION
by: Winnipeg Free Press Photo Desk

Legendary Winnipeg photographer L. B. Foote photographed everything from the construction of the Manitoba Legislative Building to parades, accidents and everyday life on the streets during the city's boom town years.

Here are a few images from the Winnipeg Free Press library and the Manitoba Archives.

Click here to see the WFP slideshow of Foote photographs.

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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!