SCOTIABANK CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2015
PART PICTURE
May 1 – 31, 2015
Curated by Chris Wiley
Featured Artists:
Lucas Blalock
Ellen Carey
Ryan Foerster
Jan Groover
John Houck
Barbara Kasten
Owen Kydd
Elad Lassry
Mariah Robertson
Erin Shirreff
Josh Tonsfeldt
James Welling
Chris Wiley
NGC@MOCCA
PAST PICTURE
May 2 – 31, 2015
Anna Atkins, Anton Bruehl, Share Corsaut, Adrien Majewski, Ralph-Eugene Meatyard, Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Charles Nègre, Paul Outerbridge Jr., Man Ray, Franz Roh, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gary Schneider, Paul Strand, William Henry Fox Talbot, Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, John Vanderpant, unknown photographer
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Curated by Jonathan Shaughnessy and Ann Thomas
Presented in conjunction with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
From William Henry Fox Talbot’s earliest “photogenic drawings” and Charles Nègre’s translation of photographic images into a variety of mechanical processes, to the photogram process that was a staple for Man Ray, Dada, and the Surrealists, Past Picture draws from the extraordinary holdings of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century photographs in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada to present prints and images by some of photography’s most innovative and influential inventors and practitioners. The photographs on view represent key aesthetic and philosophical sensibilities of some 150 years of photographic production. What becomes clear in vintage Canotypes by Anna Atkins from the mid-1800s to Paul Outerbridge, Jr.’s influential work from the 1920s is that from its nascency the medium originally forged on the dynamic interaction between light, chemistry, and paper has long also held a particularly intimate relationship with the things of the world. Whether challenging the accepted order of things, or elevating the everyday to something sublime, formal composition and the photographic arrangement, cropping, and/or abstraction of everyday objects were key for those artists who used the medium not so much as a means to represent the world but rather to transform it. The vision and processes expressed by the photographers, inventors and above all artists in Past Picture continue to inspire and influence those taking the lens-based image into the 21st century.
PART PICTURE
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John Houck, Untitled #330, 456, 975 combinations of a 2×2 grid, 25 colours, (from Aggregates series), 2014. Creased archival pigment print (unique)
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John Houck, Untitled #317, 390,624 combinations of a 2×2 grid, 25 colors, (from Aggregates series), 2014. Creased archival pigment print (unique)
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John Houck, Untitled #275, 194,480 combinations of a 2×2 grid, 21 colors, (from Aggregates series), 2013. Creased archival pigment print (unique)
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Chris Wiley, Dingbat (2), 2014
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Ellen Carey, Mourning Wall, 2000
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Lucas Blalock, Good Id, 2014. Archival inkjet print.
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Erin Sherriff, Knife, 2008. Archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & co., New York
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Jan Groover, Untitled, 1979. Chromogenic Color Print. Edition 2/3
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Jan Groover, Untitled, 1979. Chromogenic Color Print. Edition 2/3
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Jan Groover, Untitled, 1979. Chromogenic Color Print. Edition 2/3
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Jan Groover, Untitled, 1979. Chromogenic Color Print. Edition 2/3
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Ryan Foerster, Hurricane – Shawn, Julie, Jimmy (part of triptych). 2006-2012. Unique C-print, debris.
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Owen Kydd, Window #4 (Anteroom) Frame 1524, 2014. Courtesy of Monte Clark Gallery and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
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James Welling, 062414D, 2014. Chromogenic print mounted on Dibond aluminum. Edition of 2. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London
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Barbara Kasten, Studio Construct 8, 2007. Archival pigment print.
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Josh Tonsfeld, Untitled, 2014. Spray paint and spider’s web on paper and pigment print on paper. Courtesy the artist and Simon Preston Gallery, New York
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Elad Lassry, Untitled (Ring Toss), 2014. Silver gelatin print, walnut frame, enameled copper. Unique.
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Mariah Robertson, 108, 2012. Unique chemical treatment on RA4 paper.
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Mariah Robertson, 11, 2013. Unique chemical treatment on RA4 paper.
PAST PICTURE
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Anna Atkins, Polypodium crenatum, Norway, 1854. cyanotype, 32.9 x 23.6 cm. Purchased 1983, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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Man Ray, Untitled, c. 1921-1928, printed 1963. gelatin silver print, 26.5 x 21.5 cm. Purchased 1968, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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Charles Nègre, Reproduction from Nature, c. 1864. photogravure, 32.3 x 23.8 cm. Purchased 1968, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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William Henry Fox Talbot, Articles of Glass, before January 1844. salted paper print, 18.8 x 23.2 cm; image: 12.7 x 15.3 cm. Purchased 1975, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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Paul Strand, Photograph, before June 1917. photogravure, 23.1 x 16.9 cm. Gift of Dorothy Meigs Eidlitz, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, 1968, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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Paul (Jr.) Outerbridge, Knife and Cheese, 1922. printed later platinum print, 12.7 x 10.2 cm; image: 12.2 x 9.6 cm. Purchased 1991, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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Albert Renger, Patzsch Sempervivum, 1922-1923. gelatin silver print, 23.1 x 17.1 cm; image: 22.8 x 16.8 cm; 19 x 15 1 1/4 in. (framed). Purchased 1992, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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László Moholy, Nagy Light Space Modulator, 1930. gelatin silver print, 30.2 x 23.4 cm; image: 27.2 x 20.8 cm. Purchased 2001, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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John Vanderpant, Strength, c. 1930. gelatin silver print, 34.8 x 27.4 cm; image: 34.8 x 27.4 cm. Purchased 2013, National Gallery of Canada, Ottaw,a