Doug Ball
Doug Ball is a Canadian photojournalist. He is the brother of Lynn Ball, another famous Canadian photojournalist.
Career
Doug Ball learned photography from his father Johnny in London, Ontario. In 1969, after working as a Canadian Press photographer in Ottawa and a darkroom technician in Toronto, he left with his brother to Australia for what eventually became a travel around the world in a 1962 Corvette.
After nearly two years on the road, Doug Ball came back to Canada and worked for various news outlets, including the Canadian Press and the Montreal Gazette.[1]
Famous photos
- Robert Stanfield's fumble.[2] Doug Ball 1974 photo of Conservative Leader/candidate fumbling a football is said to have cost him (and the Conservative Party) the election. The Canadian Press sent the picture across Canada where the photo was played on many front pages.
- "I think it came at a particularly bad time, campaigning against Mr. Trudeau, who was perceived by the public as a very athletic guy - flips off diving boards and you name it," Lyon said, adding, "then all of a sudden there's this picture of a football and Mr. Stanfield, this crouched-over, bald guy in glasses. Put it this way: it didn't help," [3]
- Pierre Trudeau's pirouette.[4] The 1977 photo show Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau doing a pirouette behind an oblivious Queen Elizabeth II at a G7 summit Conference in London, England.[5] This photo is arguably the most famous photo of Trudeau. "The picture, we have been led to believe, expresses his maverick anti-conformism, his democratic disdain for aristocratic pomp."[6]
References
- ^ Lynn and Doug Ball, Life on a Press Pass, Wallbridge House Publishing, 2005 p.3
- ^ Fumble photo on CBC website
- ^ Lynn and Doug Ball, Life on a Press Pass, Wallbridge House Publishing, 2005 p.55
- ^ Pirouette's photo at Stephen Bulger Gallery
- ^ Lynn and Doug Ball, Life on a Press Pass, Wallbridge House Publishing, 2005 p.66
- ^ Robert Sibley, Trudeau deconstructed, The Ottawa Citizen, Sunday, June 04, 2006
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