M. O. Hammond of Toronto |
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Authors: | Janet Dewan |
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Abstract: | Abstract ‘Mr Hammond, you have a good way of sensing public taste’,1 remarked an official of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in 1926, during a discussion with members of the Toronto Camera Club (TCC) about the annual International Salon of Photography. ‘Mr Hammond’ was the journalist and amateur photographer M. O. Hammond (1876-1934),2 a fixture in the Toronto culture scene since 1906 when he had become literary editor and a reviewer of art exhibitions for the newspaper The Globe. He was well known for his efforts to encourage and publish Canadian writers and artists. His three books3 and numerous newspaper and magazine articles popularized Canadian history, art, and literature, and were frequently illustrated by his own photographs. |
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