1. Hans-Ludwig Blohm was a German-born Canadian photographer and author.
26 Facts About Hans Blohm
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Hans Blohm drove the Mackenzie Ice Road to Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea at three occasions and explored by sailboat the remote, uninhabited fjords of Labrador.
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Hans Blohm left his mark in the world of architecture, portrait and microchip photography.
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Hans Blohm died on December 4,2021, at the age of 94.
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In 1949, Hans Blohm purchased his first camera, a Diax with a 50mm lens.
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In 1956, Hans Blohm went to Canada hoping to bring back to Germany a childhood friend, Ingeborg Ramm, who had emigrated to Canada a year earlier.
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From 1958 to 1963, Hans Blohm became a darkroom technician and manager.
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Hans Blohm was close to getting discouraged when the National Film Board of Canada offered him $600 for a selection of his transparencies for featured publication in Year of the Land and Call them Canadians, two pictorial books about Canada.
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Later in 1963, Hans Blohm found a job at Photo Features Ltd doing contract work for the Ottawa Citizen and operating the very first wire service in Canada.
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Hans Blohm participated in numerous National Film Board books, publications and audiovisual programs.
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In 1969, he formed Foto Hans Blohm which became Foto Hans Blohm Associates Ltd.
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Hans Blohm's recognition earned him numerous major photo assignments from architects, high technology sector, government departments, galleries, etc.
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Hans Blohm was hired to record all the big events leading up to the establishment of Nunavut.
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Hans Blohm was present at several of the meetings where the negotiations took place; the Agreement in Principle in Igloolik; the contract signing with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Iqaluit; the Royal Assent signing at Coppermine ; the unveiling of the Nunavut flag in Iqaluit during the April 1,1999 celebration marking the official creation of the Nunavut Territory.
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Hans Blohm obtained assignments from Makivik Corporation, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated and Canadian Geographic to photograph various people of the Arctic.
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Hans Blohm's book based on his experiences with northern people, The Voice of the Natives - The Canadian North and Alaska, took three decades and was originally published in English and German.
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Hans Blohm supported his camera with a solid gold bar while working deep within the main vault of the Royal Bank of Canada.
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Hans Blohm undertook the first-ever production of a photographic catalogue of all artworks in the custody of the National Gallery of Canada on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
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An altogether different aspect of Hans Blohm's work has focussed on high technology.
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Hans Blohm was commissioned to produce nine more murals that hung in Ireland, Puerto Rico, Washington, DC, Florida, Bromont, Quebec, etc.
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In 1986, Hans Blohm published Pebbles to Computers with Anthony Stafford Beer.
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Hans Blohm invested over six years of research and travel before the book was published.
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Hans Blohm's photographs are distributed worldwide by Masterfile, Canada's largest stock photography agency.
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For Science North in Sudbury, Ontario Hans Blohm photographed thin slices of various rocks containing minerals in polarized light and darkfield.
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Hans Blohm's photographs are being shown to children and visitors as part of the interpretive display.
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Over 180,000 photographs taken by Hans Blohm have been acquired by Library and Archives Canada.