Doug Ball Explained

Doug Ball is a Canadian photojournalist.

Famous photos

• Robert Stanfield's fumble.^[1] 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.
• Pierre Trudeau's pirouette.^[2] The 1977 photo shows Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, in Buckingham Palace, doing a pirouette behind Queen Elizabeth II and members of the G7 at the Summit Conference in London, England.^[3] 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."^[4]

References

1. http://www.cbc.ca/news/photogalleries/stanfield/pages/09_stanfield_fumble_74.html Fumble photo on CBC website
2. http://www.bulgergallery.com/dynamic/fr_artwork_display.asp?ArtworkID=259 Pirouette's photo at Stephen Bulger Gallery
3. Lynn and Doug Ball, Life on a Press Pass, Wallbridge House Publishing, 2005 p.66
4. Web site: Robert Sibley, Trudeau deconstructed, The Ottawa Citizen, Sunday, June 04, 2006 . June 10, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080624084554/http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/citizensweekly/story.html?id=e72eeda6-6d2f-4586-8f28-822719408b23 . June 24, 2008 . dead .