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Biography

Donald Ronald McPhee was born in October 1924 at Glenside, Saskatchewan. His parents moved to Chilliwack in about 1933. Don worked with them in the family pork business raising hogs, and cutting and wrapping pork for customers. He was later involved in the curing and smoking of ham and bacon.

He met and marrried Mildred Bresch. They shared an interest in photography and belonged to the Chilliwack Camera Club, the National Association of Photographic Art and also marketed their photography through books, magazines and calendars. Mildred died in 2005. Don passed away in January 2014 in Chilliwack.

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• 1926 Census: "Canada, Prairie Provinces, Census, 1926", citing Page: 2; Line: 19; Digital film/folder num
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  September 26, 2019

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  I’m obsessed with structure. From John McPhee’s sketch for “Travels in Georgia,” which resembles a Fibonacci Spiral, to the lopsided bell curve of the classic story arc, there are examples everywhere to learn from and apply. As Nieman’s own Jacqui Banaszynski often says, “You can’t plagiarize structure.”

  So I was excited when I stumbled upon a structure I hadn’t seen before in a 2009 Los Angeles magazine story by Mary Melton. “Lens Master” is a profile of Julius Shulman, one of the most famous architecture photographers of all time, a pioneer of lifestyle photography and a fantastically interesting character.

  The profile unfurls snapshot by snapshot, like a roll of 35-millimeter film: A “take” of Shulman in 36 exposures. Present-day scenes alternate with flashbacks. Some scenes are brief snapshots. Others are environmental portraits. In some scenes, the author appears “in the shot,” so to speak. In others, she’s present but invisible or slightly out of

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