George Hunter. Photographer. The Last Post.
GEORGE HUNTER, PASSES AT 91 George Hunter, a Canadian photography pioneer, has passed away in Mississauga at the age of 91. Hunter, a long-time National Film Board photographer captured the disappearing nomadic Inuit way of life in Canada's Arctic. His career spanned 70 years and took pictures all over Canada, the United States and the world. he considered himself as a visual historian and "Canada's Location Photographer". Two of his pictures have been used on Canadian paper bills - salmon ($5 bill) and a petro-chemical plant ($10 bill). Hunter took pictures for many news sources and high profile clients including the Winnipeg Tribune, Expo 67, and the Royal Family. In the fifties after leaving the National Film Board, Hunter learned how to fly, purchased a Piper Cub and soon became an expert at low-level photography. In the 60s he built a photography bus (complete with a 7 metre ladder on the roof for high-angle shots) and s...