Sherman Hines (born 1941) is a Canadian photographer, born in
Liverpool, Nova Scotia
Liverpool is a Canadian community and former town located along the Atlantic Ocean of the Province of Nova Scotia's South Shore (Nova Scotia), South Shore. It is situated within the Region of Queens Municipality, which is the local governmen ...
.
Photography
Hines first studied photography while in the
Royal Canadian Air Force
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; ) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environmental commands within the unified Can ...
, where he received a diploma in photography, followed by four years of study at the
Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.
In addition to taking and publishing photographs, Hines has lectured extensively on photography throughout Canada and the United States, including fourteen years at the West Coast School of Photography in California.
Other activities
Hines has an interest in architecture that has had him purchase and restore historic buildings in Nova Scotia,
one of which has been converted into a museum: the Rossignol Cultural Centre in Liverpool, which houses the Sherman Hines Museum of Photography.
The Sherman Hines Museum of Photography was housed in the former town hall of Liverpool from 1996 - 2014. Currently, it is housed at the Rossignol Cultural Centre.
It has four galleries, one of which houses a permanent exhibit of photographs and artifacts of Hines,
Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh FRPS (December23, 1908July13, 2002) was an Armenian–Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century.
An Armenian ge ...
, Wallace MacAskill, and
William Notman. The other three galleries are used for temporary exhibits.
Established in 2002, the Rossignol Cultural Centre, located in Liverpool, is housed in a former high school that was to be demolished.
The museum consists of five galleries, which includes an apothecary museum, a wildlife art gallery, folk and fine art, a hunting, fishing and guiding museum, a
Mi’kmaq
The Mi'kmaq (also ''Mi'gmaq'', ''Lnu'', ''Mi'kmaw'' or ''Mi'gmaw''; ; , and formerly Micmac) are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Bru ...
museum, a trapper’s cabin, and an outdoor cultural village.
The Rossignol Cultural Centre also includes a museum featuring another interest of Hines:
outhouse
An outhouse — known variously across the English-speaking world otherwise as bog, dunny, long-drop, or privy — is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers a toilet. This is typically either a pit latrine or a bucket ...
s. This museum is the only one of its kind in North America.
[ Hines began photographing outhouses in the 1970s, said to have started when he was photographing the oldest remaining house in Mill Village, Nova Scotia which had an outhouse.][ Hines has published several books featuring outhouses and issues an annual outhouse calendar.
One of Hines's architectural finds was a mission and a fortification built in 1699 by the French in Avondale, Nova Scotia, constructed at the request of Abbé ]Jean-Louis Le Loutre
Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre (; 26 September 1709 – 30 September 1772) was a Catholic priest and missionary for the Paris Foreign Missions Society. Le Loutre became the leader of the French forces and the Acadian and Mi'kmaq militias during Ki ...
.
Honours
Hines has been granted a Fellowship in the American Society of Photographers and been named Canadian Photographer of the Year. He also has two gold medals of excellence in photography from The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia and the National Association for Photographic Art. In May 1998, Saint Mary's University in Halifax granted Hines an Honorary Doctor of Letters.
Personal life
His son Andrew Hines is a music video maker. His work on " One Man Can Change the World" with American rapper Big Sean
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won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Social Message in 2015. His wife is Andrea.
Publications
Hines has published more than 70 books (many of which were best sellers),Don Harron
Donald Hugh Harron, (September 19, 1924 – January 17, 2015) was a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author, playwright, and composer. Harron is best remembered by American audiences as a member of the cast of the long-running co ...
) Firefly Books (1996)
* ''Evangeline Trail'' Nimbus Publishing (1997)
* ''Panorama Nova Scotia'' Nimbus Publishing (1998)
* ''Outhouses of the West'' Firefly Books (2000)
* ''Mahone Bay'' Nimbus Publishing (2002)
External links
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References
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Living people
Canadian photographers
Artists from Nova Scotia
People from Queens County, Nova Scotia
1941 births