Doug Ball

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 show Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau doing a pirouette behind an oblivious Queen Elizabeth II at a G7 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. Fumble photo on CBC website
  2. Pirouette's photo at Stephen Bulger Gallery Archived May 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. Lynn and Doug Ball, Life on a Press Pass, Wallbridge House Publishing, 2005 p.66
  4. "Robert Sibley, Trudeau deconstructed, The Ottawa Citizen, Sunday, June 04, 2006". Archived from the original on June 24, 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
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