Category Archive: Toronto
A Handful of Dust: From the Cosmic to the Domestic January 22–April 5, 2020 Winter Exhibitions Opening Party Wednesday, January 22, 6–8 pm “A Handful of Dust features a selection of modern and contemporary images from the last 100 years, focusing on the visual representation of dust in photography, both as an element of the […]
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The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture September 11 and runs until December 8, 2019 “Throughout the history of photography, African women’s bodies have been repeatedly objectified and fetishized. The Way She Looks shifts the focus instead towards women’s gazes and highlights female acts of looking that challenge the male-dominated […]
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SCOTIABANK CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL May 2019 Toronto’s celebrated month-long Festival in May engages established and emerging Canadian, American, and international artists to activate urban spaces across the city Carrie Mae Weems will create three separate site-specific installations at outdoor venues downtown, representing the first time she has shown her work at this scale in Canada. […]
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True to the Eyes: The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection January 23 – April 7, 2019 Opening Party Wednesday, January 23 6:00–8:00 PM “This exhibition presents more than 200 photographs from the extraordinary and eclectic collection of the long-time Toronto couple. The Tanenbaums were among the first Canadian collectors to engage with the medium […]
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Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story September 12 – December 9, 2018 Opening September 12, 6:00–8:00 pm. “This exhibition tells the story of one of the most important, enduring, and deeply personal assignments that Gordon Parks ever undertook for Life,” says Paul Roth, Director of the Ryerson Image Centre and co-curator (with Amanda Maddox of the […]
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Weight of Light May 2–26, 2018 Opening Reception Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 6pm-8pm Works by: Bas Jan Ader, Brion Gysin, Lee Henderson, Étienne-Jules Marey, Isabel M. Martínez, James Nizam “Behind a thin veil of flesh, your eyes adjust to and regulate their darkened interiors. An afterimage appears — and slowly disappears — as photochemical activity […]
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DONA SCHWARTZ: ON THE NEST JANUARY 23 – FEBRUARY 27, 2016 RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST: SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2-5PM ARTIST TALK: SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1PM All the parents are photographed in their child’s room before the birth or after the grown child has moved away. The photographs were made with a large format camera which […]
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Elaine Ling: TALKING STONES JANUARY 20-FEBRUARY 28 A shaman stone sends its song across the Gobi desert. Tibetan prayer flags flutter in the wind blowing prayers into the blue sky from a celebratory rock at Namtso Lake. Pictograms found in cliffs in the American Southwest, Africa, Australia, and Asia bear witness to the close relationship […]
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Weegee: Murder Is My Business October 14 through December 13, 2015 Murder Is My Business looks at the urban violence and mayhem that was the focus of Weegee’s early work. He worked almost exclusively at night, setting out from his small apartment across from police headquarters when news of a new crime came chattering across […]
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Burn with Desire: Photography and Glamour Anti-Glamour: Portraits of Women January 21 – April 5, 2015 From Edward Steichen’s iconic portrait of silent film star Gloria Swanson (1924) to Annie Leibovitz’s influential gatefold covers for Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood issue (1995-2014), Burn with Desire: Photography and Glamour offers a sweeping yet considered view of photography’s […]
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