Finding the True North in Canada – The New York Times

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Finding the True North in Canada

In “The Canadians,” photos culled from Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper archive echo Robert Frank’s epic portrait of that country’s neighbor to the south.

via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/finding-the-true-north-in-canada-globe-and-mail/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0

When the Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s national newspapers, made plans to move to smaller and more modern premises, the fate of its photo archives was uncertain. Rumor had it that the new building wouldn’t be able to support the physical weight of the roughly 750,000 prints that were produced before digital photography became the norm. The Archive of Modern Conflict, funded by David Thomson, the chairman of both the daily publication and of Thomson Reuters, came to the rescue.