5 October 2023, 6:30pm
Focusing on the beginnings of photography, James S. Ackerman, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow,explores what photography introduced to the conventions of architectural representation and what were the sources of this new system of vision. The subject of Ackerman’s lecture springs from his research on architectural photography and on the origins of the conventions of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 December 2001
James S. Ackerman: On the Origins of Architectural Photography
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Focusing on the beginnings of photography, James S. Ackerman, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow,explores what photography introduced to the conventions of architectural representation and what were the sources of this new system of vision. The subject of Ackerman’s lecture springs from his research on architectural photography and on the origins of the conventions of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Created on the occasion of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, Canadian photographer Robert Burley’s Photographic Proof is a large-scale photographic installation on the north facade of the CCA. The mural reproduces a processed Polaroid photograph, symmetrically juxtaposing the negative and positive versions of the same image, and shows an unidentified crowd observing(...)
North façade
11 September 2009 to 19 October 2009
Robert Burley: Photographic Proof
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Created on the occasion of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, Canadian photographer Robert Burley’s Photographic Proof is a large-scale photographic installation on the north facade of the CCA. The mural reproduces a processed Polaroid photograph, symmetrically juxtaposing the negative and positive versions of the same image, and shows an unidentified crowd observing(...)
North façade
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Cette chemise contient des articles de publication sur Roger D'Astous ou sur ses projets, et notamment un exemplaire de la publication Architecture-Bâtiment- Construction, vol. 15, no. 165, janvier 1960, un négatif de plans de la Résidence Fred Snyder (1963), 9 x 15,5 cm et un certificat The Montreal Construction Centre Design Award, daté du 23 juin 1958, décerné à Roger D'Astous pour le développement d'habitations du Domaine Estérel, Québec (1958). Elle contient également de la documentation sur le Village olympique, comprenant : 1 photographie noir et blanc du Village olympique. 21,5 x 31 cm 1 série de 20 reproductions photographiques en noir et blanc : détails, coupe, élévation et plans du Village olympique. 8 x 10 cm
Articles de publication sur Roger D'Astous ou sur ses projets
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ARCH158526
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Cette chemise contient des articles de publication sur Roger D'Astous ou sur ses projets, et notamment un exemplaire de la publication Architecture-Bâtiment- Construction, vol. 15, no. 165, janvier 1960, un négatif de plans de la Résidence Fred Snyder (1963), 9 x 15,5 cm et un certificat The Montreal Construction Centre Design Award, daté du 23 juin 1958, décerné à Roger D'Astous pour le développement d'habitations du Domaine Estérel, Québec (1958). Elle contient également de la documentation sur le Village olympique, comprenant : 1 photographie noir et blanc du Village olympique. 21,5 x 31 cm 1 série de 20 reproductions photographiques en noir et blanc : détails, coupe, élévation et plans du Village olympique. 8 x 10 cm
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Feelings for Space
16 December 2024
Feelings for Space
Laura Aparicio Llorente on Arthur Erickson's grant application to the Canada Council for the Arts
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Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
Revolution on a Human Scale: Photography and Vkhutemas
Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
29 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
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Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
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Space Half Empty
Space Half Empty
Maroš Krivý traces how photography frames the potentiality of wastelands
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Acts of Looking
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
4 February 2017, 3pm
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
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In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
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These public programs offer an opportunity to meet and engage with artists and photographers from the exhibition The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project and to continue reflecting on the methodologies and strategies they use in constructing visual arguments.
Programs Extending The Lives of Documents
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These public programs offer an opportunity to meet and engage with artists and photographers from the exhibition The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project and to continue reflecting on the methodologies and strategies they use in constructing visual arguments.
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First, the Forests
Nature reorganized
16th century, 20th century, carte, D'abord les forêts, Dan Handel, dessin, drawing, États-Unis, First the Forests, forest, foresterie, forestry, forêt, Inde, India, Italie, Italy, map, photographie, photography, Programme pour jeune commissaire, United States, Venice, Venise, XVIe siècle, XXe siècle, Young Curator Program
28 August 2012
Nature reorganized