Stuck in the Middle: Dissenting Views of Winnipeg

by Bartley Kives, Bryan Scott, Bryan Scott (Photographer)

Overview

Desired and reviled, adulated and condemned, Winnipeg inspires intense and contradictory emotions from residents, visitors and people who have never even ventured within wading distance of the Manitoba capital. The city at the centre of North America inspires a profound sense of ambivalence, stuck as it is between a colourful and triumphant early history, a long period of 20th-Century decline and an uncertain if optimistic future. Stuck in the Middle finds photographer Bryan Scott and journalist Bartley Kives exploring the geography, design and reputation of the only city they have ever truly known, loved and hated. With vicious honesty and intense affection, Scott and Kives expose Winnipeg's beautiful and conflicted soul for the rest of the world to admire and detest and ultimately ignore.WINNER: Carol Shields/City of Winnipeg Book Award

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781773370910
Publisher:	Great Plains Press
Publication date:	08/15/2022
Series:	Stuck In The Middle
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	63 MB
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About the Author

Lifelong Manitoban Bartley Kives has spent three decades in journalism, covering politics, music, food, science and outdoor recreation at CBC and other publications. He's the author of the Canadian bestseller A Daytripper's Guide to Manitoba: Exploring Canada's Undiscovered Province. He's also the co-author of two collaborations with photographer Bryan Scott: Stuck in the Middle: Dissenting Views of Winnipeg — the 2014 winner of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award — and Stuck In The Middle 2: Defining Views of Manitoba. His work has also appeared in publications such as The Guardian and Explore magazine.

Winnipeg photographer BRYAN SCOTT has been documenting the city's architecture and streetscapes since 2005. After studying architecture and graphic design, he works in advertising while making daily contributions to his photo website Winnipeg Love Hate. A collection of photos from the site was published in 2010 and his first collaboration with author Bartley Kives, Stuck In The Middle: Dissenting Views of Winnipeg, was published by Great Plains Publications in 2013. It won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award the following year.

Editorial Reviews

"If you care about this city, you will love Scott's atmospheric, chiaroscuro-style photos and Kives's irreverent humour, as they make their case by taking us on a whirlwind tour from the end of the last continental Ice Age to the return of the Jets." — The Winnipeg Free Press

"The great Winnipeggian coffee table book has arrived!" — The Spectator Tribune

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