Canadian Photography magazine

cinematographer George Dunbar in 1977

Toronto. Do you remember Canadian Photography magazine? It was a skinny magazine that survived for a few years around the 1970s against the thick American magazines which had a far greater range of advertisers available plus lots of writing talent.

I bought a few issues of Canadian Photography, but mostly went for the big American magazines (Popular Photography, Modern Photography, Camera 35, etc.). There was the occasional European magazine too, like Zoom. Last century, before the internet and its wealth of information, they were the best source of what was new and exciting in photography. Picture magazines like National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, Life, Saturday Evening Post et al, often featured the work of well known photographers like Karsh of Ottawa or Halsman in the Big Apple.

In 1977, Canadian Photography did a spread on the IBM facility over in Don Mills where George Dunbar did industrial movies and stills for the Canadian branch of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). George came across this three page spread recently and shared it with me. Take a peak at page 1, page 2, and page 3 of the October, 1977 issue scanned by my good friend George and shared with us.

Note: I did a search online for the magazine, but came up empty, so I can’t link readers to the magazine contents nor its first and last issue dates.

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