Book Description Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Dust jacket shows light wear ; Book has plain white cover and pictorial dustjacket with french flaps. Pages 1-96 devoted to B&W photographs with no text followed by a foreword by Yee and background information by Faith Moosang ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 159 pages; "In 1999, Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver mounted First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy. Guest curated by Faith Moosang, the exhibition of 81 portraits by Chow Dong Hoy consisted of photos taken in the Cariboo between 1909 and 1925. Hoy was one of the first Asian photographers in British Columbia. His 1,500 photographs, which are held in the Barkerville Historic Town Archives, are a record of the ethnic diversity in the Cariboo region during the first part of the twentieth century." Hoy, town photographer in Quesnel, first photographed only Chinese immigrants, but as his language skills improved Caucasians an First nations peoples were included. Seller Inventory # 21601

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First Son - Portraits by C. D. Hoy

Moosang, Faith (Signed); Yee, Paul (Foreword)

Published by Presentation House Gallery/Arsenal Pulp Press, British Columbia (1999)

ISBN 10: 1551520710 ISBN 13: 9781551520711

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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Hoy, C.D. (illustrator). First Edition. Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, curated by Faith Moosang and held from September 4 to October 17, 1999 at Presentation House Gallery. "An extraordinary collection of photographs by C.D. Hoy (1883-1973), a Chinese-Canadian photographer whose startling, evocative portraits of First Nations, Chinese and Caucasion subjects in small-town British Columbia, taken between 1909 and 1920, form an important historical and cultural document about the roots of 'otherness' in Canada." - dust jacket. 159 pages. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy of this lavishly-produced work.; Photography; Sm 4to; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 633j0843

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