Doug Ball

Canadian photojournalist Doug Ball shooting the Telus Skins game in Levis

Doug Ball is a Canadian photojournalist. He is the brother of Lynn Ball, another famous Canadian photojournalist.

Career

Doug Ball learned photography from his father Johnny in London, Ontario. In 1969, after working as a Canadian Press photographer in Ottawa and a darkroom technician in Toronto, he left with his brother to Australia for what eventually became a travel around the world in a 1962 Corvette.

After nearly two years on the road, Doug Ball came back to Canada and worked for various news outlets, including the Canadian Press and the Montreal Gazette.^[1]

Famous photos

• Robert Stanfield's fumble.^[2] Doug Ball 1974 photo of Conservative Leader/candidate fumbling a football is said to have cost him (and the Conservative Party) the election. The Canadian Press sent the picture across Canada where the photo was played on many front pages.

"I think it came at a particularly bad time, campaigning against Mr. Trudeau, who was perceived by the public as a very athletic guy - flips off diving boards and you name it," Lyon said, adding, "then all of a sudden there's this picture of a football and Mr. Stanfield, this crouched-over, bald guy in glasses. Put it this way: it didn't help," ^[3]

• Pierre Trudeau's pirouette.^[4] The 1977 photo show Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau doing a pirouette behind an oblivious Queen Elizabeth II at a G7 summit Conference in London, England.^[5] This photo is arguably the most famous photo of Trudeau. "The picture, we have been led to believe, expresses his maverick anti-conformism, his democratic disdain for aristocratic pomp."^[6]

References

1. ^ Lynn and Doug Ball, Life on a Press Pass, Wallbridge House Publishing, 2005 p.3
2. ^ Fumble photo on CBC website
3. ^ Lynn and Doug Ball, Life on a Press Pass, Wallbridge House Publishing, 2005 p.55
4. ^ Pirouette's photo at Stephen Bulger Gallery
5. ^ Lynn and Doug Ball, Life on a Press Pass, Wallbridge House Publishing, 2005 p.66
6. ^ Robert Sibley, Trudeau deconstructed, The Ottawa Citizen, Sunday, June 04, 2006

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