Events Archive
Toronto Convention. ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS: Definitions, Descriptions, Access.
January 19- January 21, 2012
Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
3rd Floor Atrium, 245 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario
Photographic collections and photographic objects are questioning and challenging curators, collectors and photographic dealers in their daily work.
Art historians have long been faced with having to identify the hand of the master painter or sculptor among those of his/her students; in the same regard, photographic historians are now working with portraits from Nadar’s studio and images by Man Ray printed long after his death. This issue of authorship raises the question of object/image-dating: How does one write a proper caption?
Photography questions the idea of the original, which is very important to the process of collecting: Should one collect negatives or prints? Which prints should be collected?
In the last two decades, questions related to this multifaceted aspect of the photographic object have generated extensive research about the appropriate vocabulary used to describe photographs: a vocabulary that would evade photographic ubiquities and which would facilitate knowledge exchanges; a vocabulary that would precisely describe photographic objects and would aid curators and collectors with their collections; a vocabulary that would better facilitate access to the general public, not only to the image but also to the picture – the original print.
The ‘Toronto Convention: About Photographic Collections, Definitions, Descriptions and Access’ aims to share this research, to engage in new discussions and to contribute to the establishment of a precise photographic vocabulary. Curators, collectors, conservators, photographic dealers and scholars will present lectures and will take part in panel discussions from Thursday, January 19th, 2012 to Saturday, January 21st, 2012. A publication gathering important definitions is planned as a follow-up to the symposium.
The full program can be downloaded here.
Thursday, January 19 ( https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/48/watch/1656.aspx)
Friday, January 20 ( https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/48/watch/1658.aspx)
Saturday, January 21 ( https://ryecast.ryerson.ca/48/watch/1660.aspx)
The symposium has been made possible through the generous support of:
Les Amis de la Bibliothèque Clémentine,
the Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Family Charitable Foundation,
the Consulat Général de France à Toronto.
Edward Burtynsky: Oil
April 9 – August 21, 2011
Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
Edward Burtynsky: Oil, is presented by the Ryerson Image Centre, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, and Scotiabank Group, hosted at the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto. The exhibition is an examination of one the most important subjects of our time by one of the most respected and recognized contemporary photographers in the world. The exhibition features 53 beautiful and provocative large-format photographs that explore the hotly-debated effects of oil extraction and our international dependency on the substance. With an unflinching eye, Burtynsky presents us with the reality of oil production as its role in our civilization undergoes massive transformation.
Edward Burtynsky: Oil is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and made possible with the generous support of the Scotiabank Group.
Edward Burtynsky: Oil – Symposium
Friday May 6 & Saturday May 7, 2011
Ryerson University
The Ryerson Image Centre presents a symposium in conjunction with Edward Burtynsky: Oil which brings together top scientific and arts industry experts for two days of discussion about essential issues of oil, planetary sustainability, and the energy options available to us, from both the scientific and aesthetic points of view.
The symposium is made possible with the generous support of the Nicholas Metivier Gallery.
Archived video from the symposium:
Black Star and the Civil Rights Movement
February 16, 2011
Ryerson University
The Ryerson Image Centre presents “Black Star and the Civil Rights Movement,” a lively discussion with Bob Fitch and Matt Herron. Fitch has been recognized for his photographs of day-to-day Civil Rights Movement events and his extensive documentation of peace and social justice activities in the 1960s and ’70s. Herron, is a photojournalist and documentary photographer who organized the Southern Documentary Project — one of the more important bodies of documentary images from the Civil Rights era. The discussion is moderated by Mark Sealy, Director of Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers, in London, England, and curator of the upcoming exhibition “Human Rights and Human Wrongs” (January – April 2013).
The panel discussion is made possible through the generous support of TD Bank Group.
Towards Forever…an Indigenous Art Historical Worldview
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Ryerson University
Steven Loft, curator, theorist, writer, and National Visiting Trudeau Fellow at Ryerson University, presents his inaugural lecture, “Towards Forever…..an Indigenous Art Historical Worldview,” at Ryerson University. Loft’s lecture addresses how we must create radical, critical and culturally dynamic dialogue about indigenous cultural sovereignty as we develop a new approach to art history from the perspective of indigenous cultures,.