1950

1950: the young New York photographer Lida Moser discovers Québec. She does two stories for the famous American magazines Vogue and Look, crisscrossing the province from Montréal to Québec City, Charlevoix to the Gaspésie, the Côte du-Sud to Montérégie. Alternating between urban and rural landscapes, she captured the province’s inhabitants – children, sculptors, storytellers, actors, lovers and more – with tenderness and fascination alike.

Made up of some 190 photographs, this exhibition is a splendid visual document of Québec society and culture and of the profound changes taking place here during the post-war years. 

The exhibition is organized by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec with the generous support of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.