MOOSANG, FAITH AND PAUL YEE (FOREWORD) - First Son: Portraits By C.D. Hoy

Vancouver BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 1551520710. Dust jacket shows light wear ; Book has plain white cover and pictorial dustjacket with french flaps. Pages 1-96 devoted to B&W photographs with no text followed by a foreword by Yee and background information by Faith Moosang ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 159 pages; "In 1999, Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver mounted First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy. Guest curated by Faith Moosang, the exhibition of 81 portraits by Chow Dong Hoy consisted of photos taken in the Cariboo between 1909 and 1925. Hoy was one of the first Asian photographers in British Columbia. His 1,500 photographs, which are held in the Barkerville Historic Town Archives, are a record of the ethnic diversity in the Cariboo region during the first part of the twentieth century." Hoy, town photographer in Quesnel, first photographed only Chinese immigrants, but as his language skills improved Caucasians an First nations peoples were included. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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