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Arts > Photo > 20th, 21st century > Canada > Larry Towell
“My wife, Ann, and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live.
We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned.
I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.”
Photograph: Larry Towell/Magnum Photos
By Rena Silverman Lens NYT Jun. 8, 2015
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/
Larry Towell
Larry Towell's business card reads 'Human Being'.
Experience as a poet and a folk musician has done much to shape his personal style.
The son of a car repairman, Towell grew up in a large family in rural Ontario.
During studies in visual arts at Toronto's York University, he was given a camera and taught how to process black and white film.
A stint of volunteer work in Calcutta in 1976 provoked Towell to photograph and write.
Back in Canada, he taught folk music to support himself and his family.
In 1984 he became a freelance photographer and writer focusing on the dispossessed, exile and peasant rebellion.
He completed projects on the Nicaraguan Contra war, on the relatives of the disappeared in Guatemala, and on American Vietnam War veterans who had returned to Vietnam to rebuild the country.
His first published magazine essay, 'Paradise Lost', exposed the ecological consequences of the catastrophic Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound.
He became a Magnum nominee in 1988, and a full member in 1993. http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_9_VForm&ERID=24KL535NDZ
http://www.magnumphotos.com/
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/
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