Friday, 26 August 2011

History of Industrial Photography


Posted: 20 Aug 2011 09:17 PM PDT
artwork: George Hunter - Dofasco and Steelco Mills. Hamilton, Ontario, 1954 - Dye transfer print, 31 x 42 cm.- Gift of the artist. - © Art Gallery of Ontario.

TORONTO, ON.- A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario traces the history of Canada’s changing industrial landscape through the lens of some of the country’s most extraordinary photographers from the past 150 years. Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today opens August 20 and includes more than 100 photographs by such artists as Alexander Henderson, William Notman, John Vanderpant, E. Haanel Cassidy, Ralph Greenhill, George Hunter and Edward Burtynsky. The exhibition, on view through April 29, 2012, comprises chiefly works from the AGO collection, augmented by a selection of key loans — marking the first time that the Gallery has displayed its vast collection of Canadian industrial photographs. 

No comments:

Post a Comment