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Photographer, writer and broadcaster John A. Reeves was born in Burlington, ON, on April 24 th , 1938. Reeves attended one year of art studies at Sir George Williams Art School in Montreal before completing his education at the Ontario College of Art in 1961. Reeves became interested in photography while still a student, and his work has appeared in a number of national and international publications. He served as a special consultant to the National Film Board in the production of the book Between Friends – Entre Amis, published to acknowledge the American Bicentennial in 1976. He has also contributed to several NFB books and exhibitions, including Call Them Canadians (1968), Many Happy Returns (1969), and a collection of portraits of Canadian women in 1975. He has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions, and his work is
included in public and corporate collections (including The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the National Library of Canada, the University of Toronto Art Centre and the National Archives of Canada).
Reeves began writing for magazines in 1972, and his work appeared in such publications as Toronto Life, Macleans, and Destinations Magazine throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He has also undertaken several writing commissions for companies like Genstar Ltd., Harlequin Enterprises, Cara Holdings Ltd. and Big Sisters/Big Brothers of America. In addition to his writing and photography projects, Reeves has worked as a television and radio broadcaster. He served as host of the arts and entertainment program Toronto in Review on CBC Radio, and he has appeared on The Gerussi Show, TransCanada Matinee, This Country in the Morning, Take Thirty, Twentyfour Hours, Three for the Road, Canada AM, Front Page Challenge, and others.
John Reeves has been the recipient of various graphic awards including the Graphica Club of Montreal and the Toronto Art Directors’ Club. In 2002, the Canadian Association of Illustrators and Photographers awarded him their Lifetime Achievement Award. He has exhibited widely, and his photographs of Inuit artists and arctic landscapes are particularly well known.
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Southam Publications. “Facing Dorset: John Reeves turns his lens north.” The Ottawa Citizen, October 31, 1999, C4.
Hume, Christopher. “John Reeves raves about friends’ faces.” The Toronto Star, December 5, 1990, F3.
Reeves, John. “On Inuit Art.” The Walrus, November 2007. http://thewalrus.ca/2007-11-detail/
Reeves’ work can be found in the following books:
Elliott, George and John Reeves. God’s Big Acre: Life in 401 Country. Toronto: Methuen, 1986. https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/fedca1/cdi_proquest_newspapers_753176841
Fillion, John. Thoughts about my sculpture. Toronto: Martlet Press, 1968. https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/14bjeso/alma991106357893506196
Lees, Gene. Jazz Lives: 100 portraits in jazz. Toronto: Stewart House, 1994. https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/14bjeso/alma991106655932506196
Newman, Peter C, ed. Debrett’s Illustrated Guide to the Canadian Establishment Agincourt, ON: Methuen, 1983. https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/fedca1/cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A32353267
Reeves, John. About face. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1990. https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/14bjeso/alma991105985584906196