St. George
Ebb and Flow | Au gre des vagues
Published on 3. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-77310-426-3 (ISBN)
Description
New Brunswick's Fundy Coast has always been a place of movement. The massive tides are so integral to the region's identity that their ebb and flow defines the character of the place.
St. George has seen more than its fair share of the ebb and flow of people and prospects - the typical story of incoming trade and riches, followed by dwindling opportunities. But interest has recently returned to St. George, drawn there by an appreciation for non-urban locales of stark natural beauty, affordability, and down-to-earth people.
Photographer Susan Lapides has been visiting St. George for over twenty-five years. Her deep commitment to capturing the character of place is brilliantly matched by her innate sense of composition and colour. Her work testifies to the fact that the everyday can be mesmerizing if we are lucky enough to have the right interpreter behind the lens. In Lapides's photographs, the dusk cobalt blues of the ocean and sky become symphonic and a windswept cliff with a lighthouse, dog, lacrosse player, and tree appear as powerful and enigmatic as an Edward Hopper painting.
La cote de Fundy a toujours ete un lieu de mouvements. Les marees d'une amplitude hors du commun ont marque l'identite de cette region du Nouveau-Brunswick, dont le caractere s'est forge au gre des vagues.
Il y en a eu, des vagues, a St. George! De gens, de perspectives et de fortunes. L'histoire typique d'un essor commercial et de richesses qui abondent, puis declinent. Et voila que St. George suscite un regain d'interet notable, alimente par la beaute brute des environs de la ville, des prix abordables et le charme des gens sans pretention.
Susan Lapides frequente St. George depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans, appareil photo a l'oeil. Sa determination a saisir la personnalite du lieu n'a d'egal que son sens inne de la composition et de la couleur. Ses cliches prouvent que le quotidien peut etre fascinant, pour peu que l'interprete derriere la lentille en soit parfaitement conscient. Le bleu cobalt de l'ocean et du ciel au crepuscule a une nette tonalite symphonique. Le phare, le chien, le joueur de crosse et l'arbre qui animent une falaise balayee par le vent evoquent autant de presence et de mystere qu'un tableau d'Edward Hopper.
St. George has seen more than its fair share of the ebb and flow of people and prospects - the typical story of incoming trade and riches, followed by dwindling opportunities. But interest has recently returned to St. George, drawn there by an appreciation for non-urban locales of stark natural beauty, affordability, and down-to-earth people.
Photographer Susan Lapides has been visiting St. George for over twenty-five years. Her deep commitment to capturing the character of place is brilliantly matched by her innate sense of composition and colour. Her work testifies to the fact that the everyday can be mesmerizing if we are lucky enough to have the right interpreter behind the lens. In Lapides's photographs, the dusk cobalt blues of the ocean and sky become symphonic and a windswept cliff with a lighthouse, dog, lacrosse player, and tree appear as powerful and enigmatic as an Edward Hopper painting.
La cote de Fundy a toujours ete un lieu de mouvements. Les marees d'une amplitude hors du commun ont marque l'identite de cette region du Nouveau-Brunswick, dont le caractere s'est forge au gre des vagues.
Il y en a eu, des vagues, a St. George! De gens, de perspectives et de fortunes. L'histoire typique d'un essor commercial et de richesses qui abondent, puis declinent. Et voila que St. George suscite un regain d'interet notable, alimente par la beaute brute des environs de la ville, des prix abordables et le charme des gens sans pretention.
Susan Lapides frequente St. George depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans, appareil photo a l'oeil. Sa determination a saisir la personnalite du lieu n'a d'egal que son sens inne de la composition et de la couleur. Ses cliches prouvent que le quotidien peut etre fascinant, pour peu que l'interprete derriere la lentille en soit parfaitement conscient. Le bleu cobalt de l'ocean et du ciel au crepuscule a une nette tonalite symphonique. Le phare, le chien, le joueur de crosse et l'arbre qui animent une falaise balayee par le vent evoquent autant de presence et de mystere qu'un tableau d'Edward Hopper.
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Language
English
French
Place of publication
Fredricton
Canada
Edition type
Bilingual edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77310-426-3 (9781773104263)
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Susan Lapides is a photographer who creates time-based projects focusing on adolescence and place. Through her portraits and landscapes, she examines social, cultural, and community issues.
A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Lapides had an extensive career as an editorial photographer for national publications including Smithsonian, Life, Time, Forbes, the New York Times, and People. She won numerous awards from the American Society of Media Photographers and has photographed luminaries including President Barack Obama and Rose Kennedy.
Lapides has held solo exhibitions at Sunbury Shores (St. Andrews, NB), the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton, NB), and the Griffin Museum (Boston, MA). Her work has been included in many group exhibitions including New York's Foley Gallery, the Newport Art Museum, the Brand Library & Art Center in Los Angeles, and San Diego's Oceanside Museum of Art. Her award-winning photography is in numerous collections. She resides in Boston, Massachusetts, and in St. George, New Brunswick.
Susan Lapides est une photographe. Ses projets, ancres dans le temps, mettent en valeur l'adolescence et les lieux. Ses portraits et ses paysages rendent compte des enjeux sociaux, culturels et communautaires.
Diplomee de la School of the Museum of Fine Arts de l'Universite Tufts, Lapides est photographe narrative et d'opinion pour des publications comme le Smithsonian, Life, Time, Forbes, le New York Times, et People. Maintes fois recompensee par l'American Society of Media Photographers, elle a a son actif les portraits de personnalites comme le president Barack Obama et Rose Kennedy.
Lapides a expose en solo a Sunbury Shores (St. Andrews, N.-B.), au Musee des beaux-arts Beaverbrook (Fredericton, N.-B.) et au Griffin Museum (Boston, MA). Elle a egalement participe a de nombreuses expositions collectives, notamment a la Foley Gallery de New York, au Newport Art Museum, au Brand Library & Art Center de Los Angeles et au Oceanside Museum of Art de San Diego. Souvent primees, ses photographies figurent dans de nombreuses collections. Elle vit en partie a Boston, au Massachusetts, et a St. George, au Nouveau-Brunswick.
John Leroux, an art historian, teacher, and retired architect, is the manager of collections and exhibitions at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. He has authored or edited seventeen books and contributed to many others. His most recent publications include Peter Powning: A Retrospective and the award-winning Wabanaki Modern: The Artistic Legacy of the 1960s "Micmac Indian Craftsmen," which he co-authored with Emma Hassencahl-Perley.
Historien de l'art, professeur et architecte retraite, John Leroux est responsable des collections et des expositions au Musee des beaux-arts Beaverbrook. Il a ecrit ou dirige dix-sept ouvrages et collabore a de nombreux autres. Parmi ses plus recentes publications, mentionnons Peter Powning, Une retrospective et Wabanaki Moderne : L'heritage artistique des Micmac Indian Craftsmen des annees 1960 qu'il a redige avec Emma Hassencahl-Perley.
A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Lapides had an extensive career as an editorial photographer for national publications including Smithsonian, Life, Time, Forbes, the New York Times, and People. She won numerous awards from the American Society of Media Photographers and has photographed luminaries including President Barack Obama and Rose Kennedy.
Lapides has held solo exhibitions at Sunbury Shores (St. Andrews, NB), the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton, NB), and the Griffin Museum (Boston, MA). Her work has been included in many group exhibitions including New York's Foley Gallery, the Newport Art Museum, the Brand Library & Art Center in Los Angeles, and San Diego's Oceanside Museum of Art. Her award-winning photography is in numerous collections. She resides in Boston, Massachusetts, and in St. George, New Brunswick.
Susan Lapides est une photographe. Ses projets, ancres dans le temps, mettent en valeur l'adolescence et les lieux. Ses portraits et ses paysages rendent compte des enjeux sociaux, culturels et communautaires.
Diplomee de la School of the Museum of Fine Arts de l'Universite Tufts, Lapides est photographe narrative et d'opinion pour des publications comme le Smithsonian, Life, Time, Forbes, le New York Times, et People. Maintes fois recompensee par l'American Society of Media Photographers, elle a a son actif les portraits de personnalites comme le president Barack Obama et Rose Kennedy.
Lapides a expose en solo a Sunbury Shores (St. Andrews, N.-B.), au Musee des beaux-arts Beaverbrook (Fredericton, N.-B.) et au Griffin Museum (Boston, MA). Elle a egalement participe a de nombreuses expositions collectives, notamment a la Foley Gallery de New York, au Newport Art Museum, au Brand Library & Art Center de Los Angeles et au Oceanside Museum of Art de San Diego. Souvent primees, ses photographies figurent dans de nombreuses collections. Elle vit en partie a Boston, au Massachusetts, et a St. George, au Nouveau-Brunswick.
John Leroux, an art historian, teacher, and retired architect, is the manager of collections and exhibitions at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. He has authored or edited seventeen books and contributed to many others. His most recent publications include Peter Powning: A Retrospective and the award-winning Wabanaki Modern: The Artistic Legacy of the 1960s "Micmac Indian Craftsmen," which he co-authored with Emma Hassencahl-Perley.
Historien de l'art, professeur et architecte retraite, John Leroux est responsable des collections et des expositions au Musee des beaux-arts Beaverbrook. Il a ecrit ou dirige dix-sept ouvrages et collabore a de nombreux autres. Parmi ses plus recentes publications, mentionnons Peter Powning, Une retrospective et Wabanaki Moderne : L'heritage artistique des Micmac Indian Craftsmen des annees 1960 qu'il a redige avec Emma Hassencahl-Perley.