Gallery 44’s 30th Anniversary Events on December 3, 2009 from 6 -10pm:
Cake Cutting at 7:30pm I Raise a glass to the first 30 years with DJ Siquemu!
Wall to Wall | 3oth Anniversary Edition Exhibition and Sale of Photographs Dating From 1979 to 2009 by Gallery 44 Members and Friends
On Until December 19
A NEW PUBLICATION FROM GALLERY 44 ON CANADIAN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Emergence: Contemporary Canadian Photography
Co-published by Gallery 44 and Ryerson University
124 Pages | 5 Essays | Works by 30 Artists | 84 colour reproductions | $23.95
What emerges in the development of an image, in looking at a work of art, in the expansion of an artist’s career or practice?
To mark its 30 years of commitment to the advancement of photographic art in Canada Gallery 44 has produced a book of Canadian contemporary photography on the subject of emergence. The book is comprised of original essays by esteemed Canadian writers, curators and artists. Each writer was invited to explore the concept of emergence with reference to the work of artists who have exhibited at Gallery 44. These artists were in turn asked to choose the work of an emerging Canadian photographic artist to be published along side their own work in the book. This book is a major contribution to the discourse on contemporary photography, showing a broad-spectrum of photo-based work contextualized by engaging and informative texts. Emergence will appeal to artists, educators, students, curators, critics and any serious devotee to contemporary art.
Editor Sarah Parsons, in her introduction, speaks of “the important conceptual connection between photography, visibility and emergence”, as well as photography’s “more literal and technical relationship to emergence” this is a connection which each writer explores from a unique perspective in relation to select photographic artists.
Cover Image: Michael Taglieri, t for Thomson, from Wearing a raincoat in case it begins to rain, 2007
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
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