Harry Oakman, Flying Artist, at Artspace from fact poster Watch Video
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Description: May-June, 1985. While Peterborough's Harry Oakman was an aerial photographer with an international reputation, across Ontario generations of beer drinkers knew him for one thing. As his brief biography (below) indicates, in the late 1950s he was hired to photograph, from the air, every beer store in the province. Eventually you could not walk into a beer store anywhere in Ontario without seeing a huge photo of that store and the credit ‘H. OAKMAN PETERBORO, ONT’. That’s probably what inspi
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