{"product_id":"brantville-melinda-blauvelt","title":"BRANTVILLE - Melinda Blauvelt","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eIn 1972, Melinda Blauvelt traveled to the small Acadian fishing village of \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eBrantville\u003c\/span\u003e, New Brunswick on Canada's Eastern coast. She lived with a fisherman and his family, ran a day camp, and made a series of remarkable, compassionate portraits of the \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAcadian community \u003c\/span\u003ethat summer and on three subsequent visits from 1972 to 1974. Her photographs are now published as a series for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eMelinda Blauvelt was in the first class of women at Yale and then the first woman in Yale's MFA photography program where Walker Evans became her mentor. Blauvelt would later teach at Harvard and at the University of Virginia where she established the photography program. Her pictures are held by major museums throughout the United States. She lives today in a small village on the coast of Rhode Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e“I bought a used Deardorff 4x5 camera and spent the summer making photographs in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eBrantville\u003c\/span\u003e, where I lived with fisherman Ulysse Thibodeau, his wife Jeannette and their three young children. Weekdays were spent with the campers making puppets and performing “Le Corbeau et Le Renard”, playing Capture the Flag and Croquet. Weekends, Ulysse and Jeannette took us fishing for mackerel, to the beach and included us in family dinners, bingo, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003epicnics, and birthday parties. Whenever I set up my Deardorff, the Thibodeaus, their extended family and other \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003eBrantville\u003c\/span\u003e friends were my enthusiastic collaborators.” \u003c\/em\u003e- Melinda Blauvelt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eSize — 240 x 270 mm\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eCover — 1\/4 Bound Hard Back\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003ePrinting — Tritone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u2028ISBN — 978-1-913288-63-1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: value-regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.933279991149902px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003ePages — 104\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Stanley\/Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45334164832474,"sku":"","price":84.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/0371\/5780\/files\/1_2048x2048_58fa5afc-372c-4132-b660-d45b415b3d5d.jpg?v=1717524958","url":"https:\/\/studio-argentique.myshopify.com\/products\/brantville-melinda-blauvelt","provider":"Studio Argentique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}