Untitled (8D)

Untitled (8D)Artwork Info About the Artist About this Photograph 1972 From the series "Open Passport" Gelatin silver print Annotated 8D", in ink, au recto Printed circa 1972 Unframed John Max (b. 1936) was born in Montreal to parents of Ukrainian origin who had arrived in Canada in the 1920s. He studied painting with Arthur Lismer and music at the McGill Conservatory of Music before discovering photography in the late 1950s through Lutz Dille, whose work, strongly

November 2014

whether it involves traditional printing from negatives

“the darling of the intelligentsia”

offering astute

Working in both black and white and colour

in black and white

quickly scooped up those press passes and shot through the evening

neon signage and the crowds of people who have populated the city's streets over the past fifty years-as his primary subject

Columbia University School of the Arts

In the 1960s

This is one of several floral still lifes de Meyer made in London around 1906–9

in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism