ABSTRACT
In Toronto circa 1910, a handful of anonymous Canadian photographers did produce a body of work which is astounding in its optic perception of the time in which they lived . . . Working conditions, health, housing, education, sanitation, children, motherhood, all came under their close scrutiny. Often told where and when to go for the pictures, what to include, the very discipline of what they had to reveal provided them with an ‘art of seeing’ with which they produced many images of poignant intensity. Many of the photographs show what needed to be corrected or what was being corrected in the lives of immigrants and workers of 1910.
