Untitled (3D)

Untitled (3D)Artwork Info About the Artist About this Photograph 1972 Gelatin silver print From the series "Open Passport" Annotated "3D", 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,

Stein et al

As the artist has stated

Despite dedicating his focus towards a spiritual life after 1930

and feature films

one of his pictures was selected Eastman Kodak for a four-foot by seven-foot display in the Professional Photographer’s Showcase at Disney World’s Epcot Centre

By 1957 he was established as a freelance photographer for London magazines and book-jacket designers

From Kirsti Svenning for the International Center of Photography

Royal Ontario Museum and the Dak’Art Biennale of Contemporary African Art

For almost 30 years his artwork has been concerned with the relationship between various forms of remembrance and the representation of the past

Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away - A Review of Fred Herzog: Modern Color - National Gallery of Canada

from the Bonnie Benrubi Gallery

With her series “The Notion of Family”