Fred Douglas: Photographs

by Fred Douglas (Artist), Willard Holmes (Contributor), Ian Thom (Contributor)

Catalogue for exhibitions: 4 May - 7 June 1981, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria ; 4 Sept. - 4 Oct. 1981, Edmonton Art Gallery.

Referring to society's disenchantment with a materialistic culture separated from nature, Holmes analyses Douglas' photographs from 1979 to 1981, which question photography's claim to represent reality.

28 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Fred Douglas (1935 - 2005) was a Vancouver, British Columbia, artist whose photographs, sculptural tableaus, bookworks and drawings have been exhibited throughout Canada. Douglas was a professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Victoria.

Douglas' late career was marked by the proliferation of writing in his oeuvre, including Menu for Sunset (1996).

At this time of his death, Douglas was working on a sprawling visual story book--an intricate illuminated manuscript of sorts--entitled “Flutter”: this work was exhibited in part at Access Gallery in 2004 and the Helen Pitt Gallery in 2005, both in Vancouver.