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By Randy Boswell<\/p>\n

The recent death of renowned Canadian photojournalist Ted Grant \u2014 who taught his craft at the School of Journalism and Communication for nearly a decade beginning in 1972 \u2014 has prompted nationwide tributes for the man who famously captured a shot of Pierre Trudeau sliding down a banister at the 1968 Liberal leadership convention that made him Canada\u2019s prime minister.<\/p>\n

Grant died at a hospital in Victoria on April 19 at age 90.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe lived a lot of lives in one,\u201d his son Scott, an Ottawa photographer, told CBC News<\/a> last week for a story that recounted highlights of Grant\u2019s award-winning, 60-year career \u2014 most of it spent as a freelancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe took pictures of era-defining events and people,\u201d noted the story, \u201cfrom the Vietnam War and the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, to former U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson crossing the Olympic finishing line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Library and Archives Canada and the National Gallery of Canada hold more than 280,000 of Grant\u2019s images, the largest such collection of any Canadian photographer\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

He is \u201cwidely regarded as the father of Canadian photojournalism,\u201d according to the National Gallery. \u201cTed Grant has been a seminal figure since the start of his career in 1951. He was instrumental in shaping Canadian newspaper photography, as he was one of the first photographers to use 35mm film, which would become the industry standard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Between 1957 and 1971, Grant worked as a freelance photographer for the National Film Board\u2019s still photography division.<\/p>\n

In a note about Grant\u2019s photographic style, the gallery states: \u201cGrant prefers to shoot without a flash from the shadow side of a subject to give side-back lighting, a technique inspired largely by Rembrandt\u2019s paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her 2013 biography Ted Grant: Sixty Years of Legendary Photojournalism<\/em>, author Thelma Fayle recalled how \u201cTed had been approached to teach the class at Carleton by (J-School director) Joe Scanlon, a well-known Canadian reporter, shortly after the Munich Olympics. It was a gig that lasted almost nine years.<\/p>\n

\u201cTed proposed to the large class that it might be fun if they divided into two groups to have a friendly competition that would simulate the competitive environment they would soon enter. Each semester, the \u2018Hot Shots\u2019 and the \u2018Charlie Browns\u2019 set off to outdo each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fayle quoted Grant describing his passion for photojournalism \u2014 a passion shared with hundreds of Carleton students over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking pictures offers you the coolest life you can imagine,\u201d he once said. \u201cYou are constantly alive with seeing the world differently. Photojournalism has taken me around the world. It gave me a magical career.\u201d<\/p>\n

When he became a member of the Order of Canada in 2016, Grant\u2019s citation lauded his achievements as \u201ca premier photojournalist who captures Canadian culture and social history through his lens,\u201d and noted that he is \u201cgenerous with his time, as an instructor and mentor to young, aspiring photographers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cover of Thelma Fayle\u2019s 2013 biography of Ted Grant, showing the photographer\u2019s most famous picture \u2014 Pierre Trudeau sliding down a bannister, 1968.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ted Grant, shown here in 2016, holds a photograph of himself from a 2012 trip to Barcelona, where he had shot pictures at the Olympic Games twenty years earlier. (Photo by Peter Klein)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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