Photography

George Hunter (photographer)

George Hunter (1921 – 10 April 2013) was a Canadian documentary photographer born in Regina, Saskatchewan. His career spanned seven decades capturing industrial and landscape scenes on photographic film. His early work was for the National Film Board of Canada in the 1940s. He was a pilot, and aerial photography was one of his specialties. His work included a 12-page cover story for Time Magazine in 1954. Other prominent uses of his work included being the basis of images printed by the Bank of Canada for three of its early 1970s bank notes. One of his photographs is contained on the Voyager Golden Record carried on the Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar space probes. He spent his final years living in Mississauga, Ontario, where he died in 2013.

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• ▸Akaroa
• ▸Hengill
• ▸Gigi Masin

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