{"id":10976,"date":"2018-03-06T08:17:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T12:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10976"},"modified":"2018-03-04T01:48:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:48:50","slug":"our-citys-first-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/our-citys-first-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"our city’s first photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poverty in the Ward
Arthur S Goss 1913
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Toronto<\/strong>. The Saturday, March 3rd Globe and\u00a0Mail<\/em> had an interesting article (A little girl in Toronto lost to history \u2013 and now found<\/em><\/a>) about discovery of the identity of a child photographer by Arthur Goss while on assignment to record the extreme poverty in the city’s area called the Ward – right across from city hall!<\/p>\n

This got me thinking about one of my favourite photographers – Arthur S Goss. I remember chasing down some of his photos at the Toronto Archives which were at city hall in those days. The article appeared in our journal Photographic Canadiana<\/em>\u00a0(12-3) as Arthur S. Goss – City Photographer – \u00a0Toronto’s City Photographer, 1911-1940<\/a>. \u00a0The article, written by Victor Russel and Linda Price of the City of Toronto Archives complemented a Market Gallery exhibition of his work in the period March – May 1980. We published the article and photos the end of 1986 when Douglas Gilbertson was the editor and Larry Boccioletti was our president. The next issue, 12-4 included a brief Oops<\/a> correcting a paragraph we accidentally modified in the original.<\/p>\n

Goss was given many topics over the years – poverty, TB sanataria, the Bloor Viaduct, etc. bringing art to the rather pedestrian tasks he was assigned to record. He was not only the first city photographer but one of the longest running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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