P.S. That's Me In The Middle

Joan McGrath is a Toronto Board of Education library consultant.

Portrait photography need not feature the well-known faces of celebrities to be both fascinating and exemplary of its kind: but on the other hand, the presence of the very, very famous does no harm at all ... This collection of magnificent portraits by a Vancouver photographer, who is himself something of a celebrity, ranges from royalty to anonymity; faces familiar on screen or concert stage, from the sports arena, politics, and business, artists and artisans. Eighty-one full-page black-and-white photographs are featured (oddly, no mention is made of the lovely portrait of Roberts’s wife, to whom the book is dedicated). Each picture is accompanied by a brief descriptive note of the circumstances of the sitting and the photographer’s reaction to his subject. His portraits lend new meaning to the tired phrase “a speaking likeness.” A section “for the photographer” offers technical tips and suggestions to serious students of photographic portraiture.