Reprint: Winnipeg Bestsellers (again!)

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Thanks to everyone who helped Imagining Winnipeg get back on the bestseller list! Yay!

Reprint: Winnipeg Bestsellers

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From McNally Robinson Booksellers, who hosted our standing-room-only launch on Wednesday.

Thanks to John Toews, the events coordinator at McNally's, for all his help with the event!

And thanks to all of you for coming out, for standing in line to have your book signed, for helping us consume those "light refreshments."

It was such great fun!

Ariel Gordon
UMP Promotions/Editorial Assistant

Reprint: Point of View #2

L.B. Foote - From the Free Press Archives

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

On Wednesday, September 26, the University of Manitoba Press will release Imagining Winnipeg: History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote.

Here are a selection of Foote images found in the Free Press archives.

Click here to see the WFP slideshow of Foote photographs.

Reprint: Winnipeg Free Press

A Foote in the Past

Winnipeg Free Press - ON-LINE EDITION
by: Staff Writer

Many of us have seen L.B. Foote photographs, whether or not we are aware of their provenance.

For at least 30 years, since the creation of the Foote archive at the Archives of Manitoba, these photographs have been used to tell the story of Winnipeg's past. They have illustrated everything from academic histories to posters for rock concerts.

And this familiarity is not only local - Foote's images have represented Winnipeg history to the nation and have been included in national museum exhibits both real and virtual.

Imagining Winnipeg: History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote, by Esyllt W. Jones, history professor at University of Manitoba, is published by University of Manitoba Press.

A book launch is planned for Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson at the Grant Park Shopping Centre.

There will be light refreshments, as well as a slide show of images from the book and a short talk by Jones.

The book is available for $39.95 at McNally Robinson and will be available at other major booksellers soon.

Reprint: Paperchase

From the Paperchase column in the Books section of Saturday's Winnipeg Free Press, written by Bob Armstrong:

"The University of Manitoba is unveiling a time machine this week, but that doesn't mean their physics geniuses are in line for a Nobel Prize.

This time machine is the product of the University of Manitoba Press, author Esyllt Jones and photographer L.B. Foote.

Jones' book on the photographer, whose images of early Winnipeg captured the Winnipeg General Strike, the building of the Hotel Fort Garry and the essence of an early-20th-century Canadian city, is illustrated with 150 of Foote's photographs.

In addition to publishing the book, University of Manitoba Press has also put out a call for lost Foote photos and documented the effort to rediscover this piece of our past on a blog at lostfootephotos.blogspot.ca.

The book launch, at McNally Robinson, Wednesday at 7 p.m., includes a slide presentation and lecture on Foote and his work."

Reprint: Spent the day with the University of Manitoba Press as they did the press check for the L.B. Foote book Imagining Winnipeg

Photo by Michael Deal.

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So Winnipeg Free Press photographer Michael Deal traveled with UMP director David Carr, Stephen Rosenberg and I to Altona for the press check of Imagining Winnipeg.

He shot video and photographs (still to come!) but also took this series of black and white cell phone photos documenting the printing process that he posted to his blog Thursday night.

Have a look, would you?

Ariel Gordon
UMP Promotions/Editorial Assistant 

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.

Reprint: Foote Prints

Photographer made an impact with iconic images, now U of M Press plans to publish his photos in a book

Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
by: Alison Mayes

January is a popular month for de-cluttering. But editors at the University of Manitoba Press are hoping to stop Winnipeggers from tossing out tattered photo albums or musty shoeboxes of old black-and-white photos.

They're asking residents to dig through family and organizational archives in hopes of recovering lost images by L.B. Foote, the pre-eminent photographer of early 20th-century Winnipeg.

They'd also be delighted if anyone dug up correspondence with Foote or even receipts for his services, since the textual record of his life is slim.

This fall, the press plans to publish a book of photos by the self-taught, highly skilled Foote, who lived from 1873 to 1957. The adventurous Newfoundlander born Lewis Benjamin arrived here in 1902 and captured thousands of images during a freelance career spanning more than four decades.

Since the Manitoba Archives acquired Foote's personal archive from his family in the early 1970s, his photos have been used in many books, documentaries and museum exhibits.

Foote's rare, compelling images of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike have attained iconic status, particularly his shot of workers rocking a streetcar on Bloody Saturday.

But his day-in, day-out work was commercial photography. He had a downtown studio, but also worked for at least part of his career from his home on Gertrude Avenue.

For the rest of the article, click here.