{"id":30834,"date":"2025-02-21T01:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T05:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=30834"},"modified":"2025-02-21T04:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T08:12:13","slug":"1995-was-not-nice-to-us-in-the-big-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/1995-was-not-nice-to-us-in-the-big-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"1995 was not nice to us in the big smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cavouk at his studio on Bloor Street in the Colonnade c1974 – courtesy of Toronto Star<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. In 1995 we lost three from the photographic community: a collector, a store owner, and a professional photographer. The ‘in memoriam’ for Harold McNutt (Bill \u00a0Belier) and Erik Olesen (Ev Roseborough) are already posted. The third loss that year was Photographer Artin Cavoukian (Ev Roseborough).<\/p>\n

While the writer of Artin’s notice remains anonymous, it is most likely our modest editor of the day who tried to avoid having too many articles attributed to himself. As to ‘Cavouk’ as he was known, Ev writes, “Opera<\/span>tin<\/span>g from <\/span>an <\/span>extr<\/span>em<\/span>el<\/span>y sm<\/span>a<\/span>ll\u00a0<\/span>stud<\/span>i<\/span>o in <\/span>th<\/span>e Col<\/span>onn<\/span>ades in <\/span>mid-T<\/span>or<\/span>ont<\/span>o,\u00a0<\/span>Artin <\/span>Cavouk<\/span>i<\/span>an, <\/span>oth<\/span>er<\/span>wi<\/span>se <\/span>k<\/span>n<\/span>own <\/span>as\u00a0Cavo<\/a>uk<\/a>. <\/span>pr<\/span>ac<\/span>ti<\/span>sed h<\/span>i<\/span>s art <\/span>fo<\/span>ll<\/span>owin<\/span>g an\u00a0<\/span>e<\/span>xod<\/span>u<\/span>s fr<\/span>om <\/span>Eg<\/span>y<\/span>pt <\/span>with <\/span>hi<\/span>s wif<\/span>e and\u00a0<\/span>fami<\/span>l<\/span>y in <\/span>1<\/span>958.<\/p>\n

“Th<\/span>e t<\/span>i<\/span>n<\/span>y stud<\/span>i<\/span>o, <\/span>r<\/span>espl<\/span>end<\/span>ent <\/span>wi<\/span>th <\/span>f<\/span>in<\/span>e\u00a0f<\/span>urnitur<\/span>e and <\/span>drapery<\/span>, <\/span>whi<\/span>ch\u00a0<\/span>also <\/span>b<\/span>ecam<\/span>e\u00a0hi<\/span>s pr<\/span>op<\/span>erti<\/span>es, di<\/span>spl<\/span>ayed <\/span>m<\/span>agn<\/span>if<\/span>i<\/span>ce<\/span>nt\u00a0<\/span>co<\/span>l<\/span>our <\/span>pri<\/span>nt<\/span>s of the <\/span>Qu<\/span>een<\/span>, <\/span>P<\/span>ear<\/span>son<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Ga<\/span>ndhi<\/span>, <\/span>de <\/span>Gau<\/span>lle<\/span>\u00a0an<\/span>d <\/span>oth<\/span>er d<\/span>i<\/span>gn<\/span>it<\/span>ar<\/span>i<\/span>es,\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span>n<\/span>d c<\/span>i<\/span>ti<\/span>ze<\/span>n<\/span>s, <\/span>a<\/span>ll <\/span>of <\/span>w<\/span>hi<\/span>ch <\/span>bore ev<\/span>id<\/span>e<\/span>n<\/span>ce of\u00a0<\/span>hi<\/span>s arti<\/span>stic <\/span>and <\/span>t<\/span>echni<\/span>ca<\/span>l <\/span>ex<\/span>perti<\/span>se.<\/p>\n

“Hi<\/span>s\u00a0L<\/span>i<\/span>nh<\/span>o<\/span>f<\/span>, <\/span>brough<\/span>t fro<\/span>m <\/span>Egypt, stoo<\/span>d\u00a0<\/span>s<\/span>i<\/span>g<\/span>ni<\/span>f<\/span>i<\/span>ca<\/span>ntl<\/span>y <\/span>in <\/span>a <\/span>corner<\/span>, <\/span>dra<\/span>pe<\/span>d in <\/span>it<\/span>s\u00a0<\/span>focussin<\/span>g <\/span>cl<\/span>ot<\/span>h<\/span>.\u00a0A p<\/span>i<\/span>o<\/span>n<\/span>ee<\/span>r <\/span>in <\/span>co<\/span>l<\/span>ou<\/span>r po<\/span>rtra<\/span>iture, <\/span>h<\/span>e\u00a0<\/span>ope<\/span>n<\/span>ed <\/span>t<\/span>h<\/span>e <\/span>firs<\/span>t co<\/span>l<\/span>ou<\/span>r <\/span>l<\/span>a<\/span>b in <\/span>th<\/span>e <\/span>Middle\u00a0<\/span>East <\/span>in <\/span>1<\/span>953 but <\/span>l<\/span>eft <\/span>ever<\/span>ythin<\/span>g be<\/span>hi<\/span>nd <\/span>in\u00a0<\/span>th<\/span>e <\/span>fli<\/span>g<\/span>ht <\/span>to <\/span>Ca<\/span>n<\/span>a<\/span>da.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hi<\/span>s wif<\/span>e and <\/span>assi<\/span>st<\/span>ant<\/span>, <\/span>Luci<\/span>e. <\/span>died <\/span>at\u00a0<\/span>th<\/span>e age of <\/span>72 <\/span>on <\/span>October <\/span>26<\/span>, <\/span>1<\/span>995,\u00a0t<\/span>we<\/span>l<\/span>ve h<\/span>our<\/span>s \u00a0<\/span>b<\/span>efore <\/span>h<\/span>e<\/span>r <\/span>hu<\/span>sband<\/span>, <\/span>wh<\/span>o\u00a0was 80.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. In 1995 we lost three from the photographic community: a collector, a store owner, and a professional photographer. The ‘in memoriam’ for Harold McNutt (Bill \u00a0Belier) and Erik Olesen (Ev Roseborough) are already posted. The third loss that year … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944,1],"tags":[3757,5,348],"class_list":["post-30834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-uncategorized","tag-in-memoriam","tag-photographer","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30863,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834\/revisions\/30863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}