Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
16 October 1996 to 2 February 1997
Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James
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Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
drawings
AP046.S1.1983.PR01.531
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This file includes a collection of annotated photographs of CCA plans, construction, and completed interiors compiled for architect Louis Brillant.
ca 1989
CCA Photographies du chantier et des dessin: L'etude de Louis Brilliant, architecte, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec
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AP046.S1.1983.PR01.531
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This file includes a collection of annotated photographs of CCA plans, construction, and completed interiors compiled for architect Louis Brillant.
drawings
ca 1989
Thirty-two Italian photographers honour Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director and Chair of the CCA, on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. The exhibition reflects the concerns of Italian photographers since the 1970s and provides an overview of contemporary Italian photographic culture. Included are photographers Andrea Abati, Cesare Ballardini, Marina Ballo Charmet,(...)
Octagonal gallery
21 April 1999 to 26 September 1999
32 Italian Photographers: A Tribute to Phyllis Lambert
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Thirty-two Italian photographers honour Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director and Chair of the CCA, on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. The exhibition reflects the concerns of Italian photographers since the 1970s and provides an overview of contemporary Italian photographic culture. Included are photographers Andrea Abati, Cesare Ballardini, Marina Ballo Charmet,(...)
Octagonal gallery
Centring on Eadweard Muybridge’s panoramas, this exhibition examines the representations of San Francisco from 1850 to 1880, a period of phenomenal growth and development for the city. Contextualizing Muybridge’s work, the exhibition includes multi-panel daguerreotype panoramas, photographic panoramas (including sets of stereocards), photographic-view books and albums,(...)
Main galleries
31 March 1993 to 25 July 1993
Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880
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Centring on Eadweard Muybridge’s panoramas, this exhibition examines the representations of San Francisco from 1850 to 1880, a period of phenomenal growth and development for the city. Contextualizing Muybridge’s work, the exhibition includes multi-panel daguerreotype panoramas, photographic panoramas (including sets of stereocards), photographic-view books and albums,(...)
Main galleries
Inspired by the theme of travel, this exhibition presents the personal vision of four photographers—Clara Sipprell, Lida Moser, Laura Volkerding, and Tadashi Kawamata—who visited Québec between the 1920s and today. The artists from elsewhere turn their attention to architecture and its environment, offering a view of Québec society from the perspective of their own(...)
Octagonal gallery
10 May 1995 to 15 October 1995
Four Photographers Visit Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding, Kawamata
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Inspired by the theme of travel, this exhibition presents the personal vision of four photographers—Clara Sipprell, Lida Moser, Laura Volkerding, and Tadashi Kawamata—who visited Québec between the 1920s and today. The artists from elsewhere turn their attention to architecture and its environment, offering a view of Québec society from the perspective of their own(...)
Octagonal gallery
Project
CI005.S1.1925.PR2
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Oud was asked to submit a design for the Paris 1925 Exposition Internationale des Art Décoratifs et Industriels. He agreed on the condition that he could submit five photographs of the Witte Dorp, Tusschendijken and De Vonk buildings. D. Hannema, director of Museum Boymans, also asked Oud to construct a cabinet to submit to the Decorative Arts exhibition as part of Domela Nieuwenhuis' print collection. Cabinetmaker, M. van Dort, built the cabinet that Oud designed; the design featured two separate sections with two doors to each section, each emblazoned with the Museum Boymans monogram (Taverne et al. 2001, 372). Project series includes photographs of the wood cabinet.
1925
Cabinet for the Domela Nieuwenhuis Collection, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, Netherlands (1925)
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CI005.S1.1925.PR2
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Oud was asked to submit a design for the Paris 1925 Exposition Internationale des Art Décoratifs et Industriels. He agreed on the condition that he could submit five photographs of the Witte Dorp, Tusschendijken and De Vonk buildings. D. Hannema, director of Museum Boymans, also asked Oud to construct a cabinet to submit to the Decorative Arts exhibition as part of Domela Nieuwenhuis' print collection. Cabinetmaker, M. van Dort, built the cabinet that Oud designed; the design featured two separate sections with two doors to each section, each emblazoned with the Museum Boymans monogram (Taverne et al. 2001, 372). Project series includes photographs of the wood cabinet.
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1925
Sub-series
AP156.S2.SS3
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La sous-série documente la collection personnelle de Pierre Jeanneret. La matériel dans cette sous-série a été produit entre 1951 et 1965. La sous-série comprend des collages, un album pour le 61e anniversaire de Pierre Jeanneret, des documents photographiques, incluant des diapositives et des négatifs d'oeuvres d'art de Le Corbusier, et des documents textuels. Sub-series documents the personal collection of Pierre Jeanneret. The material in this sub-series was produced between 1951 and 1965. The sub-series contains collages, an album for the 61st birthday of Pierre Jeanneret, photographic documents including slides and negatives of artworks by Le Corbusier, and textual records.
1951-1965
Collections personnelles = Personal collections
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AP156.S2.SS3
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La sous-série documente la collection personnelle de Pierre Jeanneret. La matériel dans cette sous-série a été produit entre 1951 et 1965. La sous-série comprend des collages, un album pour le 61e anniversaire de Pierre Jeanneret, des documents photographiques, incluant des diapositives et des négatifs d'oeuvres d'art de Le Corbusier, et des documents textuels. Sub-series documents the personal collection of Pierre Jeanneret. The material in this sub-series was produced between 1951 and 1965. The sub-series contains collages, an album for the 61st birthday of Pierre Jeanneret, photographic documents including slides and negatives of artworks by Le Corbusier, and textual records.
Sous-série 3
1951-1965
West 37th Street, Manhattan, photographed by John Veltri between 13 September and 18 September 1966
This exhibition highlights a work that the New York engineering firm Leonard S. Wegman Co. commissioned in 1966 from John Veltri. Veltri was to photograph every building, parking area, and shaftway on West 37th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, at the heart of Manhattan’s busy Garment District. The photographs Veltri made in connection with Wegman Co.’s redevelopment(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 December 2003 to 7 March 2004
West 37th Street, Manhattan, photographed by John Veltri between 13 September and 18 September 1966
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This exhibition highlights a work that the New York engineering firm Leonard S. Wegman Co. commissioned in 1966 from John Veltri. Veltri was to photograph every building, parking area, and shaftway on West 37th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, at the heart of Manhattan’s busy Garment District. The photographs Veltri made in connection with Wegman Co.’s redevelopment(...)
Octagonal gallery
Come and help us foreground women photographers in our Collection, with special guest Clara Gutsche. Come edit, meet others, snack and tour our galleries.
22 May 2024, 3 to 6pm
Foregrounding Women Photographers
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Come and help us foreground women photographers in our Collection, with special guest Clara Gutsche. Come edit, meet others, snack and tour our galleries.
Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
7 May 1989 to 7 August 1989
Architecture and Its Image
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)