Thelma

Amy Jo Ehman

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Thelma

A Life in Pictures

  Author:   Amy Jo Ehman    
  Publisher:  MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.

In photography, Thelma Pepper found a capacity to peer into other lives and to find in them a celebraiton of the human spirit.

Thelma Stevens Pepper was born in 1920. A century later鈥攆rom her adoptive home in Saskatoon鈥攕he reflects on a hundred years of life, love, and pictures.

At 60, it was creativity and passion that rescued Thelma Pepper from the depths of depression. With her kids grown and gone, she was floundering, wondering who she was, and what she was meant to do. In photography, she found what her father and grandfather before her had found and that was a capacity to peer into other lives and to find in them a celebration of the human spirit.

It was that commitment to capturing the human condition that led to her work not only being celebrated here in Canada but around the world. In these noble lives, she found herself.
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ISBN associated with this title: 9781772761573
Item MP0134
PublisherMacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.
PublisherMacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.
Published on September 8 2020
Language eng
Pages 156
Format Paperback
Dimensions8.25(in) x 10.25(in)
Shipping weight760(g)
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Amy Jo Ehman
Amy Jo Ehman was born in Saskatoon and grew up on the family farm 150 kms away from there. Her first art gallery, first train ride, first perogie, and first picnic were in Saskatoon. She studied at the University of Saskatchewan and worked as a news reporter at the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix and CBC Radio & TV. She has two previous books, Prairie Feast: A Writer's Journey Home for Dinner and Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens. Amy Jo lives in Saskatoon. Amy Jo loves Saskatoon.

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POWERFUL
"Amy Jo Ehman has deeply understood why Thelma Pepper's photographs speak so powerfully: they show how our ordinary world is in fact never ordinary. What makes Thelma Pepper's photographs so powerful is how she opens our eyes to the beauty that surrounds us and that we may take for granted. Ehman takes us into Thelma's world, a Saskatchewan where beauty and stories are always present, patiently waiting to be seen and heard." —David Gutnick, CBC radio documentary producer and writer. He spent his summers on his grandparents' farm in Mozart.
  

EVOCATIVE
"As Amy Jo Ehman's book richly details, Thelma Pepper's early beginnings in rural Nova Scotia are never far from her adult life and artistic insights, which crystallized in her adopted Saskatchewan. An astute witness who deftly traverses the distances between herself, her subjects, and the viewer, Pepper's photographs are infused with everyday people and narratives in specific social realities. In her evocative portraits and panoramas we see the human scale of our interwoven histories: on some level we know the people, vulnerabilities, and resilience she brings into focus. An intimacy of connection, community, and identity are sealed within these images." —Joan Borsa, curator, writer, and Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, University of Saskatchewan
  

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