Sometimes on Christmas Day, Ted would give me a call to wish me a merry
Christmas. Always wanted to get together with him, but it so far never
happened.
Talking about the film story you related, the recurring nightmare I get is
arriving at a remote shoot with my movie camera, film magazines and even a
changing bag, but no film! I haven’t shot movie film since about 1983.
I hope his time is gentle.
Sonny
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 12:24 PM David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Long time Flexers will know the name Ted Grant.Regards,
Ted used to be a regular participant of this list, but in the last couple
of years, his posts have become few and far between. More recently they
were sometimes a rambling mess. It happens.
But in his prime, Ted was widely known as the father of Canadian
photojournalism.
He has the largest collection of negatives from a single photographer in
the National Archives of Canada, at 280,000+ images. He has another
100,000 images in the collection of Canada's National Gallery.
He has won more awards than I knew existed. He has received honourary
doctorates for his work and has received one of Canada's highest honours,
the Order of Canada, for his photography.
To me, the crowning glory came when the US Magazine simply called him
"Canada's greatest living photographer".
During the 7 years Rose and I lived in Victoria, we would have dinners
with the Grant's, alternating every couple of weeks, at their home or ours.
As you can imagine, dinners with Ted & Irene were filled with the
incredible, but true stories of Ted's experiences. Like the time he had a
6 minute window to photograph Queen Elizabeth, brought his Leicas but
neglected to bring film! (Another photographer tossed him a roll.)
One of my most pleasant memories is a warm summer afternoon spent, years
ago, in the back yard of Ted & Irene's Victoria home, along with two mutual
friends, Tom Abrahamsson (inventor/builder of the Rapidwinder for film
Leica M's) and Joseph Yao (physician & noted photographer from Hong Kong),
sorting through stacks of 11x14" prints, helping to choose which ones
should be included in Ted's book "Doctor's Work".
Ted will turn 91 on the 27th of May. If he makes it that far.
I've just been told that Ted has been moved to a Hospice and I fear it
will be a one-way trip.
We wish him well.
David.
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