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Taconis, Tess Boudreau
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- Tess Boudreau
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1919-1970
History
Tess Boudreau Taconis (1919-2007) was a photographer known for her portraits of Canadian artists in the 1960s. Born Mary Theresa Boudreau in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, she grew up in southwestern Ontario. A skilled darkroom technician, she was working in Paris when in 1950 she met and married Kryn Taconis, a photojournalist born in the Netherlands. The couple moved to Amsterdam and then to Canada in 1959, settling in Toronto. Tess Taconis photographed contemporary artists, particularly those associated with the Isaacs Gallery, such as Joyce Wieland, Michael Snow, William Ronald and Graham Coughtry. Tess Boudreau Taconis died in Guelph, Ontario in 2007. Her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario, among other institutions.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created 19 February 2023
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- English
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Sources
Library & Archives Canada description of Tess Taconis fonds, http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=4970295&lang=eng
Artist obituary, Guelph Mercury, 9 October 2007