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By the mid-1980s, Maggs shifted away from portraiture and turned his focus to typography, which had been a prominent aspect of his work as a graphic designer. He replaced the human head with number- and letterforms in his photography and paintings, although he displayed an ongoing fascination with
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Maggs's explorations of the grid, portraiture, and collecting informed his investigations into such themes as systems and classification, time, memory, and death. Characteristic of Maggs' early work are his black-and-white portraits taken from the front, side and back, and presented in grid
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Maggs's concern for classification extended to work he made of historical documents such as the address book of Eugène Atget, rare books and ephemera, and collections of miscellany. He was also fascinated with the history of photography.
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At the age of 47, Maggs decided to become a visual artist concentrating on photography and conceptualism and focusing on such things as death notices and tags documenting child labour in French textile factories.
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After training and working as a graphic designer, Maggs turned to commercial photography in the 1960s. Beginning in 1967, he produced editorial fashion mages and portraiture for several
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home in 1980, the images appear to be identical, but are 200 different photographs of Beuys attempting to sit completely still. The same year, Maggs photographed André Kertész, then 86, in his
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236:(Vancouver) in 1993. Maggs arranged the photographs in the book by lettering style so that each page contains five similar hotel signs.
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Often examining existing systems of identification and classification in his works, Maggs developed his own classification scheme in
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was held at the
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Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now
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Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners
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Photography in Canada, 1839–1989: An Illustrated History
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