St. George: Ebb and Flow Au Gré Des Vagues [French]

By Susan Lapides

New Brunswick's Fundy Coast has always been a place of movement. The massive tides are so integral to the region's identity that their ebb and flow defines the character of the place.

St. George has seen more than its fair share of the ebb and flow of people and prospects -- the typical story of incoming trade and riches, followed by dwindling opportunities. But interest has recently returned to St. George, drawn there by an appreciation for non-urban locales of stark natural beauty, affordability, and down-to-earth people.

Photographer Susan Lapides has been visiting St. George for over twenty-five years. Her deep commitment to capturing the character of place is brilliantly matched by her innate sense of composition and colour. Her work testifies to the fact that the everyday can be mesmerizing if we are lucky enough to have the right interpreter behind the lens. In Lapides's photographs, the dusk cobalt blues of the ocean and sky become symphonic and a windswept cliff with a lighthouse, dog, lacrosse player, and tree appear as powerful and enigmatic as an Edward Hopper painting.

La c te de Fundy a toujours t un lieu de mouvements. Les mar es d'une amplitude hors du commun ont marqu l'identit de cette r gion du Nouveau-Brunswick, dont le caract re s'est forg au gr des vagues.

Il y en a eu, des vagues, St. George De gens, de perspectives et de fortunes. L'histoire typique d'un essor commercial et de richesses qui abondent, puis d clinent. Et voil que St. George suscite un regain d'int r t notable, aliment par la beaut brute des environs de la ville, des prix abordables et le charme des gens sans pr tention.

Susan Lapides fr quente St. George depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans, appareil photo l'oeil. Sa d termination saisir la personnalit du lieu n'a d' gal que son sens inn de la composition et de la couleur. Ses clich s prouvent que le quotidien peut tre fascinant, pour peu que l'interpr te derri re la lentille en soit parfaitement conscient. Le bleu cobalt de l'oc an et du ciel au cr puscule a une nette tonalit symphonique. Le phare, le chien, le joueur de crosse et l'arbre qui animent une falaise balay e par le vent voquent autant de pr sence et de myst re qu'un tableau d'Edward Hopper.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 1773104268
• ISBN13: 9781773104263
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 7.9"