Lowertown is home to many talented individuals and in this issue, the editor highlights two books that reveal the photographic skills of two residents.
John McQuarrie has contributed photographs to the Echo and in fact was featured in an earlier “Meet Your Neighbour” column. He is well known for his Then and Now series of books featuring Ottawa photographs.
McQuarrie’s latest collection with sections on Lowertown and the By Ward Market is Ottawa: An Aerial Panorama – Spirit of Place, Magic Light Publishing, 2018.
As Randy Boswell states in the foreword:
“This book, his latest contribution to a genre that he has pioneered and perfected, supplies a wealth of detail – rich and frequently breathtaking images of present day Ottawa-Gatineau – as well as a time-machine trip to the city’s storied past.”
Abigail Gossage is better known for photographs in exhibitions (and in her blog) than in books. But community efforts in 2013 to save the Union du Canada building at the corner of Dalhousie and York resulted in some evocative Gossage photographs of this iconic building.
Gossage’s photographs are now published in a book about Louis Lapierre, the building’s renowned architect. The Union du Canada was one of eight works by Lapierre featured in the book – Andrée Dupuis et Marie-Dina Salvione, L’architecture dans une vie – Louis J. Lapierre, architecte, Carte Blanche, 2018