Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto
After spending most of his life in the United States, photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012) settled in Tokyo in 1961 and began a study of the city distinct from the street photography of his contemporaries. For the next fifty years, the shifting spaces and people of Tokyo made up the core of Ishimoto’s work. Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto features a selection of(...)
Hall cases
28 June 2012 to 21 October 2012
Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto
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After spending most of his life in the United States, photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012) settled in Tokyo in 1961 and began a study of the city distinct from the street photography of his contemporaries. For the next fifty years, the shifting spaces and people of Tokyo made up the core of Ishimoto’s work. Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto features a selection of(...)
Hall cases
PH1980:0490
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- The spear, pitcher of vinegar, crown of thorns and pliers represent the instruments of torture used during the Crucifixion.
architecture, sculpture
1950
Croix de chemin près des Eboulements, Charlevoix, Québec
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PH1980:0490
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- The spear, pitcher of vinegar, crown of thorns and pliers represent the instruments of torture used during the Crucifixion.
architecture, sculpture
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
DR1988:0437:050
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina represents the Campidoglio (Capitol) decorated with drapery and trophies for a festival.
temporary architecture
printed 1775
Etching of Posi's design for the "prima macchina" of 1775
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DR1988:0437:050
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina represents the Campidoglio (Capitol) decorated with drapery and trophies for a festival.
temporary architecture
Learning from... Nairobi
Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
9 October 2014 , 6pm
Learning from... Nairobi
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Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
DR1988:0437:049
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina represents a villa decorated with antique statues,including busts, hermes, and full figure works.
temporary architecture
printed 1774
Etching of Posi's design for the "seconda macchina" of 1774
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DR1988:0437:049
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina represents a villa decorated with antique statues,including busts, hermes, and full figure works.
temporary architecture
textual records
Correspondence relating to reproduction requests, Técnica y architectura en la ciudad contemporánea
ARCH278205
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File's title: informe geotécnico. The title doesn't represent the content of the file. Documents are in English, Spanish and German.
2001-2002, predominant 2001
Correspondence relating to reproduction requests, Técnica y architectura en la ciudad contemporánea
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ARCH278205
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File's title: informe geotécnico. The title doesn't represent the content of the file. Documents are in English, Spanish and German.
textual records
2001-2002, predominant 2001
Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 September 1993 to 28 November 1993
"Letters from the People": Photographs by Lee Friedlander
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Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
Octagonal gallery
Series
Carnet de croquis
AP066.S1
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La série est composée d'un groupe de onze carnets contenant des notes et des croquis relatifs aux projets conçus par Jacques Rousseau entre 1982 et 1997. Presque tous les projets de Rousseau y sont représentés. On y retrouve aussi des ébauches de projets qui ont été soit abandonnés, comme la transformation de la maison Coloniale en " Maison de l'architecture ", soit développés dans d'autres projets, comme, par exemple, le projet de Montréal " sous-terrain " qui a servi à la fois au projet du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal et à l'exposition Du poétique de la maquette et de ses répliques.
1982-1997
Carnet de croquis
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AP066.S1
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La série est composée d'un groupe de onze carnets contenant des notes et des croquis relatifs aux projets conçus par Jacques Rousseau entre 1982 et 1997. Presque tous les projets de Rousseau y sont représentés. On y retrouve aussi des ébauches de projets qui ont été soit abandonnés, comme la transformation de la maison Coloniale en " Maison de l'architecture ", soit développés dans d'autres projets, comme, par exemple, le projet de Montréal " sous-terrain " qui a servi à la fois au projet du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal et à l'exposition Du poétique de la maquette et de ses répliques.
Series
1982-1997
The internet was invented as the ultimate standard; it is literally made of rules. Online content abides by some intentional and unintentional rules, and texture, smell, weight, flavour, and time are flattened together for the screen. Computers appear to instantaneously transform objects into images and meaning into information. 404 ERROR: The object is not online brings(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 November 2010 to 6 February 2011
404 ERROR: The object is not online
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The internet was invented as the ultimate standard; it is literally made of rules. Online content abides by some intentional and unintentional rules, and texture, smell, weight, flavour, and time are flattened together for the screen. Computers appear to instantaneously transform objects into images and meaning into information. 404 ERROR: The object is not online brings(...)
Octagonal gallery