An Atlas. A Bricolage. A Compendium of different elements and strategies for understanding the city. ABC : MTL is an urban abecedary and open-source initiative that maps contemporary Montreal in a diversity of ways and media. Over ninety contributions including photography, music videos, sculptures and installations, drawings, models, workshops, lectures, and performances(...)
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13 November 2012 to 31 March 2013
ABC : MTL – A Self-Portrait of Montréal
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An Atlas. A Bricolage. A Compendium of different elements and strategies for understanding the city. ABC : MTL is an urban abecedary and open-source initiative that maps contemporary Montreal in a diversity of ways and media. Over ninety contributions including photography, music videos, sculptures and installations, drawings, models, workshops, lectures, and performances(...)
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Victor Landriault fonds
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Le fonds est principalement constitué de documents photographiques de natures et de formats différents illustrant 12 projets de génie civil et autres constructions au Québec, en Ontario, au Nouveau-Brunswick, à Terre-Neuve, au Sri Lanka et en Algérie réalisés par la compagnie Atlas entre 1948 et 1987. On y retrouve des épreuves noir et blanc, quelques-unes en couleurs et des diapositives. Au total, le nombre de documents photographiques est évalué à 3 553 items qui étaient à l'origine répartis dans 28 albums. Le fonds comprend aussi 139 reproductions de plans (cyanotypes) et des documents textuels se rapportant à quelques-uns des projets. Enfin, plusieurs publications ayant appartenu à Victor Landriault et relatives aux activités de l'entreprise ou aux techniques de construction, ainsi que quelques souvenirs que le donateur a conservés de l'entreprise, viennent compléter le fonds.
1948-1987
Victor Landriault fonds
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Le fonds est principalement constitué de documents photographiques de natures et de formats différents illustrant 12 projets de génie civil et autres constructions au Québec, en Ontario, au Nouveau-Brunswick, à Terre-Neuve, au Sri Lanka et en Algérie réalisés par la compagnie Atlas entre 1948 et 1987. On y retrouve des épreuves noir et blanc, quelques-unes en couleurs et des diapositives. Au total, le nombre de documents photographiques est évalué à 3 553 items qui étaient à l'origine répartis dans 28 albums. Le fonds comprend aussi 139 reproductions de plans (cyanotypes) et des documents textuels se rapportant à quelques-uns des projets. Enfin, plusieurs publications ayant appartenu à Victor Landriault et relatives aux activités de l'entreprise ou aux techniques de construction, ainsi que quelques souvenirs que le donateur a conservés de l'entreprise, viennent compléter le fonds.
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1948-1987
Starting From... Travel
Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
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3 December 2008 to 1 May 2009
Starting From... Travel
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Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
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Cedric Price fonds
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The Cedric Price fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architect Cedric Price, and includes his student work and architectural and urban planning projects. The fonds also contains records that document Cedric Price's teaching, publication, and exhibition activities. The archive comprises over 200 projects, from Price's student work in the 1950s at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association to projects he undertook as late as 2000. Key projects that are represented include New Aviary (1960-1966), Fun Palace (1961-1974), Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967), Inter-Action Centre (1971-1979), Generator (1976-1980), and Magnet (1995-1996).
1903-2006, predominant 1953-2000
Cedric Price fonds
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The Cedric Price fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architect Cedric Price, and includes his student work and architectural and urban planning projects. The fonds also contains records that document Cedric Price's teaching, publication, and exhibition activities. The archive comprises over 200 projects, from Price's student work in the 1950s at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association to projects he undertook as late as 2000. Key projects that are represented include New Aviary (1960-1966), Fun Palace (1961-1974), Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967), Inter-Action Centre (1971-1979), Generator (1976-1980), and Magnet (1995-1996).
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1903-2006, predominant 1953-2000
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vii, 49, 51, vii pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
[Ottawa, Ont.] : Public Archives Canada, ©1984.
National Photography Collection / Christopher Seifried.
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vii, 49, 51, vii pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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[Ottawa, Ont.] : Public Archives Canada, ©1984.
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[5], 113 pages, 4 plates illustrations (some color), color facsimile, portraits 30 cm
London, H.M.S.O., 1969.
The Science Museum photography collection: [a catalogue], by D.B. Thomas.
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[5], 113 pages, 4 plates illustrations (some color), color facsimile, portraits 30 cm
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London, H.M.S.O., 1969.
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246 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
[Leiden] : Leiden University ; [The Hague] : Hague Museum of Photography, 2010.
Photography! : a special collection at Leiden University / [authors, editors], Maartje van den Heuvel, Wim van Sinderen ; [research, Joke Pronk ; translation, Donald Mader].
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246 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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[Leiden] : Leiden University ; [The Hague] : Hague Museum of Photography, 2010.
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48 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Chicago : The Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.
Photography in Chicago collections : selected to illustrate the history of the art of photography and to inaugurate the new galleries and facilities of the Department of Photography / David Travis.
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48 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
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Chicago : The Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.
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xi, 703 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Fort Worth, Tex. : Amon Carter Museum, ©1993.
Catalogue of the Amon Carter Museum photography collection / [compiled by] Carol E. Roark, Paula Ann Stewart, and Mary Kennedy McCabe.
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xi, 703 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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Fort Worth, Tex. : Amon Carter Museum, ©1993.