CONTACT is an annual month-long festival of photography exhibitions and events held throughout the Greater Toronto Area during the month of May. FLICKR: http://www.flickr.com/peop
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- Location:
- Toronto, ON, M5V 2J4
- Phone:
- 416-539-9595
- Mon - Fri:
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Events
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- WRAP PARTY
Drake Hotel
Wednesday, May 27 at 7:00pm - HANK WILLIS THOMAS - ARTIST TALK
Georgia Scherman Projects
Saturday, May 16 at 1:00pm - IMAGES OF PERSUASION
918 Bathurst
Thursday, May 14 at 6:30pm - PANEL DISCUSSION
Drake Hotel
Wednesday, May 13 at 7:00pm - MAGNUM WORKSHOP SCREENING
Camera Bar
Saturday, May 9 at 7:00pm - WORKSHOP MAGNUM PHOTO
Ryerson University, George Vari
Monday, May 4 at 9:00am - ANDREW WRIGHT - ARTIST TALK
Peak Gallery
Saturday, May 2 at 3:00pm - LYNNE COHEN - ARTIST TALK
Olga Korper Gallery
Saturday, May 2 at 2:00pm - GWENAËL BÉLANGER - ARTIST TALK
MOCCA
Saturday, May 2 at 12:00pm - FESTIVAL LAUNCH & STILL REVOLU...
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Friday, May 1 at 7:00pm
CONTACT Photography Festival
What do you think? - We're Not Stupid - http://www.blogto.com/arts/2009/05/were_
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It's not uncommon to see people begging for money on our streets; in my Roncesvalles neighbourhood there are regulars, each of whom has their territory, generally spaced a block or two apart. It's easy to overlook, walk by or otherwise ignore these members of our community, and it's also all...
CONTACT Photography Festival Still Revolution: Suspended in Time at MOCCA closing Sunday. If you haven't yet seen the exhibition you still have a chance. Museum hours have been extended until 9 p.m. Thursday + Friday.
CONTACT Photography Festival Thank you for supporting CONTACT 2009! We can't wait for next year!!!
CONTACT Photography Festival Join CONTACT staff, participants and special guests at the Drake Hotel for one last night of celebration to wrap up the festival and announce the much anticipated 2010 theme.
CONTACT Photography Festival Tomorrow at 918 Bathurst: Projections showcasing images that have been submitted by a global network of photographers. 12PM
CONTACT Photography Festival Quick Fix at the Drake. MAY 21, 7PM Curator Catherine Dean presents the 1962 science fiction film La Jetée and other projects responding to CONTACT's theme Still Revolution.
CONTACT Photography Festival Plan for tomorrow! Films on Photography presented by TVO. THE PHOTOGRAPHER, HIS WIFE, HER LOVER: MAY 20, 10PM
CONTACT Photography Festival
Hank Willis Thomas will speak about his most significant body of work B®ANDED and Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America. Thomas focuses on photography and how it has distorted Black American culture, and fuelled the corporate propagation of a false utopia.
Thomas’ work explores the genesis of the still im...age in the creation of cultural identity. Advertising and branding has disconnected the public from cultural reality and has produced a new visual vocabulary that defines our relationship to objects. Perhaps the concept that “the medium is the message” has never been better exemplified than in how advertising and branding have shaped issues of race, class and culture.
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Hank Willis Thomas will speak about his most significant body of work B®ANDED and Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America. Thomas focuses on photography and how it has distorted Black American culture, and fuelled the corporate propagation of a false utopia.
Thomas’ work explores the genesis of the still im...age in the creation of cultural identity. Advertising and branding has disconnected the public from cultural reality and has produced a new visual vocabulary that defines our relationship to objects. Perhaps the concept that “the medium is the message” has never been better exemplified than in how advertising and branding have shaped issues of race, class and culture.
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Presented by GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS
Time:1:00PM Saturday, May 16th
Location:Georgia Scherman Projects
CONTACT Photography Festival
Photographs by Aleksandra Radic
Toronto Life
CONTACT Photography Festival Join us for a lively conversation with CONTACT curators to examine the current climate surrounding the medium of photography as well as specific artists and works that embody the CONTACT 2009 theme Still Revolution
CONTACT Photography Festival
The Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications (CAPIC) invites you to an evening with Terry O’Reilly, host, creator and co-writer of CBC radio series, 'Age of Persuasion'. Known as a delightful raconteur and scholar of media literature, his day job as one of the top directors of radio and ...TV commercials affords him a unique perspective on marketing and how it has changed the way we react to media.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Marshall McLuhanRead More
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Marshall McLuhanRead More
CONTACT Photography Festival Tell us your impressions of CONTACT 2009!
CONTACT Photography Festival Today: Lecture with MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHERS Mark Power and Bruno Barbey @ Drake Hotel 7PM.
CONTACT Photography Festival Don't miss it tomorrow May 4: Lecture with JORGE RIBALTA - WHY PHOTOGRAPHY MATTERS AS DOCUMENT AS NEVER BEFORE. Ryerson University, Jorgenson Hall @ 7PM
CONTACT Photography Festival
Andrew Wright, multimedia and photographic artist, will speak about his new series Still Water. With these photo-sculptural works he continues his interest in probing the way in which imaging technologies mediate meaning.
Wright has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at the Universit...y of California, Berkeley, Oakville Galleries, Roam Contemporary (New York), ARCO '05 (Madrid), Presentation House, Vancouver and the Art Gallery of Calgary, to name a few.Read More
Wright has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at the Universit...y of California, Berkeley, Oakville Galleries, Roam Contemporary (New York), ARCO '05 (Madrid), Presentation House, Vancouver and the Art Gallery of Calgary, to name a few.Read More
