Country Matters

ZSOLT, Tom

ISBN 10: 0968461107 / ISBN 13: 9780968461105

Published by Kearns Vander Meersch & Boulton Ltd., Toronto, 1999

About this Item

Unpaginated. 24 x 30 cm. B&w photographs. Black cloth in dustjacket. Book has discolouration to lower edges and some marks on rear cover. Jacket has price clipped front flap, some foxing inside, soiling to top of rear flap. Signed by Zsolt on title page. Intro by Roger Boulton.

Seller Inventory # 138786

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Country Matters
• Publisher: Kearns Vander Meersch & Boulton Ltd., Toronto
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0968461107
• ISBN 13: 9780968461105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

In this collection of photographs documenting the changing Ontario landscape, "Country Matters" reflects the reality in rural Canada as an agricultural society slowly gives way to urban development. Tom Zsolt's images capture the strange visual balance between old village churches standing among the clutter of suburban strip malls and gas stations. These 100 images aren't a requiem but instead a record the changing land, people and lifestyles in rural Ontario. "Country Matters" was well received by the public and the media and was short listed as one of five finalists for the Roloff Beny Award in 1999 for the best book of photography by a Canadian, published that year.

About the Author

Canadian photographer, Tom Zsolt has been documenting the changing Ontario countryside for over 20 years. His exhibition, Ontario Gothic, during Contact'98 in Toronto, caught the imagination of the public and of publisher Roger Boulton of Kearns, Vander Meersch & Boulton, who in 1999 published County Matters, Zsolt's first book. This major work documented the changing land, people and lifestyles in rural Ontario and was well received by the public and the media. Country Matters was short listed as one of five finalists for the Roloff Beny Award in 1999 for the best book of photography by a Canadian, published that year. Zsolt recently completed work photographing the remnants and restoration of "Halifax NA337", a unique and historic aircraft intended to be a permanent memorial to Canadian airman of the Second World War. Zsolt's photographs will comprise a major portion of a book to be published in conjunction with the opening of the new war museum, built to house this massive bomber. Tom is currently collaborating with writer/psychologist Toni Atkinson on a book of landscapes. His photographs, taken across Canada and abroad, will be accompanied by Atkinson's essays exploring visual perception and the affects of our surroundings.

Tom Zsolt, who lectures internationally, has appeared on CITY-TV, CTV, TVO, and in numerous radio interviews including with Andy Barrie of the CBC. His work is exhibited in Ontario and is collected across Canada and the United States by private individuals, corporations and institutions. Zsolt, who has photographed worldwide, lives in Georgian Township in rural Ontario, and continues to photograph most extensively in Canada, South Western United States, the East Coast and Mexico.