Stuck in the Middle Dissenting Views of Winnipeg

by Kives, Bartley; Scott, Bryan

• ISBN13: 9781926531847
• ISBN10: 1926531841
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-11-01
• Publisher: Great Plains Publications

Summary

Desired and reviled, adulated and condemned, Winnipeg inspires intense and contradictory emotions from residents, visitors and people who have never even ventured within wading distance of the Manitoba capital. The city at the centre of North America inspires a profound sense of ambivalence, stuck as it is between a colourful and triumphant early history, a long period of 20th-Century decline and an uncertain if optimistic future. Stuck in the Middle finds photographer Bryan Scott and journalist Bartley Kives exploring the geography, design and reputation of the only city they have ever truly known, loved and hated. With vicious honesty and intense affection, Scott and Kives expose Winnipeg's beautiful and conflicted soul for the rest of the world to admire and detest and ultimately ignore.

Author Biography

Winnipeg journalist and author Bartley Kives has spent decades covering his city for the Winnipeg Free Press and CBC Manitoba. He is the author of the Canadian best-seller A Daytripper’s Guide to Manitoba: Exploring Canada's Undiscovered Province and co-recipient of the 2014 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award for Stuck In The Middle. Kives' work has also appeared in publications such as The Guardian, explore magazine, enRoute and National Geographic Traveler. Winnipeg photographer Bryan Scott has been documenting the city's architecture and streetscapes since 2005. After studying as an architect and graphic designer, he works in advertising while maintaining a photo blog called Winnipeg Love Hate. He self-published a book of photos from the site in 2010.