Fonds 2009.010 - John Reeves fonds

This fonds includes 4 series: ‘Textual Records – Archival’, ‘Textual Records – Published’, ‘Posters and Proofs’, and ‘Photographic Prints’.

The first series, ‘Textual Records – Archival’, consists of business records for the period 1990 to 2004. This series includes receipts, invoices, and financial statements.

The second series, ‘Textual Records – Published’, includes books, magazines, corporate publications, annual reports, and promotional material written by Reeves.

The third series, ‘Posters and Proofs’, consists of promotional material (including large format reproductions of Reeves’ images), magazine proofs, and photocopies of press and magazine clippings.

The fourth series, ‘Photographic Prints’, includes 13 subseries: ‘Canadian Visual Artists Series’, ‘Photographer Portraits Series’, ‘Canadian Authors Series’, ‘Inuit Series’, '‘Ashoona Women’ Exhibition’, ‘Jazz Lives Book ’, ‘Exile’s Exiles Book, ‘In Contro Book’, ‘Country Music Book Project’, ’Surfacing for Atwood’ Exhibition’, ‘City and Country Home article—Miami Beach’, ‘’Remembering Harold Town’ Exhibition’, and 'Miscellaneous’. -The first subseries, ‘Canadian Visual Artists Series’, includes 22 digital prints of members of the Royal Canadian of the Arts. All of the portraits were taken by Reeves, with the exception of his own (which was done by Peter Croyden). The photographs were taken between 1987 and 2001, and printed in 2007.
-The second subseries, ‘Photographer Portraits Series’, includes 13 prints of varying sizes (some matted). The sitters are photographers, including Reeves.
-The third subseries, ‘Canadian Authors Series’, consists of prints of varying sizes. Sitters include Robertson Davies, Pierre Berton, Margaret Laurence, W.O, Mitchell and Margaret Atwood.
-The fourth subseries, ‘Inuit Series’, consists of 45 photographic prints of various sizes, taken between 1971 and 1998. The sitters are primarily Inuit artists. This series also includes 30 images of the Arctic landscape. The fifth subseries, ‘ ‘Ashoona Women’ Exhibition’, consists of digital prints of three important Inuit women artists.
-The sixth subseries, ‘Jazz Lives Book’, consists of photographs that were published in the book Jazz Lives: 100 Portraits in Jazz. Subjects include Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett and Diana Krall.
-The seventh subseries, ‘Exile’s Exiles Book’, consists of 59 work prints on RC paper; these images were included in the book Exile’s Exiles.
-The eighth subseries, ‘In Contro Book’, includes two work prints printed in 1996 for the book In Contro: Where Italy and Canada Meet.
-The ninth subseries, ‘Country Music Book Project’, consists of images (work prints) that were intended to be part of a publication on country music singers and musicians.
-The tenth subseries, ‘ ‘Surfacing for Atwood’ Exhibition’, includes 19 developmental work prints for the 2008 exhibition of the same name.
-The eleventh subseries, ‘City and Country Home article – Miami Beach’ consists of four negatives and work prints of Miami Beach (street scenes, atmospheric shots, etc.)
The twelfth subseries, ‘ ‘Remembering Harold Town’ Exhibition’, consists of 8 large digital prints of the artist Harold Town, including 6 posterized versions of the portrait and a contact sheet for these versions.
-The thirteenth subseries, ‘Miscellaneous’, consists of a collection of various portraits, landscapes and genre scenes of varying scenes. Some of
these works are matted, and others are exhibition prints.

Subjects represented in this fonds include:

Margaret Atwood
Pierre Berton
Tony Bennett
Dave Brubeck
Morley Callaghan
Roch Carrier
David Cronenberg
Robertson Davies
Arthur Erickson
Ivan Eyre
Max Ferguson
Northrup Frye
Dizzy Gillespie
Moe Koffman
Diana Krall
Margaret Laurence
Irving Layton
Peggy Lee
Jack McClelland
Marshall McLuhan
Ed Mirvish
W.O. Mitchell
Oscar Peterson
Piseolak
Mary Pratt
Mordecai Richler
Jack Shadbolt
R. Murray Schafer
Artie Shaw
Harold Town
Kitty Wells
Peter Worthington