From a letter to his brother Theo.
"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars."
Goal: To capture Canada on Ambrotype (glass pictures, 1851 technology). To tell the story of the nation, its people, its landscapes, its industry, its beauty and its tragedy.
John Thomson was such a strong and important photographer in Asia at this time, 1866. I have never seen this work before, from a wet plate...
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