The University of Victoria Libraries has digitized a total of 84 analogue films and 130 accompanying photographs, textual documents, artwork and related ephemera to promote access to British Columbia artist Karl Spreitz’s extensive film and photography archive.
Karl Spreitz was a documentary and experimental filmmaker, graphic artist, photographer and photo journalist. Through is film and photography, Spreitz captured many important moments in B.C. history almost exclusively on the history, geography, and cultural life of B.C. and its artists.
The digitization of “Coming about”: The films of Karl Spreitz was digitized with support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre through its BC History Digitization Program.
For more information about the 2020/2021 BC History Digitization Program Projects, click here.
Karl Spreitz holding video camera on a rocky shore [photograph]. University of Victoria Libraries. Victoria, British Columbia. https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/b8f27a08-fea7-4505-80ee-5060baa9210f