39/2 (Fall 2005)

WCL 47 / Unfinished Business: Photographing Vancouver Streets 1955 to 1985
In Collaboration with Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver

Cover Art: Fred Herzog, Granville St. Vancouver, late 1950s

Vancouver Photographs by Dick Bellamy, Brian Stablyk, Jack Dale, Michael de Courcy, Christos Dikeakos, Fred Douglas, Svend-Erik Eriksen, Robbert Flick, Greg Girard, Curt Lang, Robert Sherrin, N.E. Thing Company, Fred Herzog, Henri Robideau, Bruce Stewart, Jeff Wall, Roy Arden, Ian Wallace, Tony Westman, Paul Wong

Editors' Note
Bill Jeffries, Glen Lowry, Jerry Zaslove

The Shock of the Old—the Street Photograph in Vancouver
Bill Jeffries

Transient Vancouver: A Difficult Typology
Rob Brownie & Annable Vaughan

The City, The Flaneur and the Man with the Camera
Petra Watson

Dissent, Tree Stumps and Bohemianism in Early Modern Vancouver
Fred Douglas & Jeff Wall—Interview

Terminal City Picaresque
Henri Robideau

Curt Lang
Jamie Reid

from "Take OUt: An All You Can Eat Smorgasbord of Vancouver Poetics"
Garry Morse

Fourteen Reasons for Photoconceptualism
Clint Burnham

Hogan's Alley and Retro-speculative Verse
Wayde Compton & Robert Sherrin

Speaking Between the Lines
Adrienne Burk

Commie Conversations on Commercial Drive
Marie Annharte Baker

A Vast and Featureless Expanse: the car rides and streets scans, 1969/71
Christos Dikeakos

Impressive and Interstitial Space in Vancouver's False Creek
Derek Simons

Exploring Vancouver in the Fifties and Sixties
Fred Herzog

The Gastown Riot 1971 & the Rolling Stones Riot 1972
Michael Barnholden

Jeff Wall: Regarding the Jewish Cemetry
Sharla Sava

Amnesia in Cities: Notes on Photography and Urban Memory
Stephen Osborne

How to Grow a City: South False Creek's Forgotten Visionaries
Cory Verbauwhede

Me Too
Fred Wah

Street Photos 1970
Ian Wallace

Curt Lang as Technologist
Gordon Cornwall

The City as Other in Larry Kent's Film The Bitter Ash
Brett Enemark

Walk to commercial drive
Meredith Quartermain

Geological Poetics & Cultural Memory—Vancouver's "One Way" Elegiac Streets
Jerry Zaslove

Bob Williams on the History of Planning Vancouver
Interview by Annabel Vaughan & Jerry Zaslove