Making CONTACT with photography
In case you haven’t heard, the largest photography event in the world returns this month! The annual Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival kicked off last week, and the AGO is proud to be a partner once again. Together we’re presenting a landmark series of talks featuring leading artists and thinkers reflecting on the history and future of photography and its impact on our culture.
The talks include:
Anthropocene: Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nick de Pencier
May 3, 2017
Explore humanity’s impact on the planet through film, art and science.
My Faraway One: The Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
May 17, 2017
Glimpse inside the extraordinary lives of two legendary artists with Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Free Black North Explored
May 24, 2017
A panel discussion explores how photographers and collectors preserved a historical visual record of Black Ontarians.
Two of the AGO’s current installations are also presented in partnership with CONTACT, as primary exhibitions of the Festival:
AGO Photography Collection 1840s–1880s
Experience the new AGO photography gallery, recently re-installed as part of Look:Forward.
April 27 – August, 2017
Free Black North
Discover how historic Black Canadian communities used photography as an important tool to visualize and lay claim to their complex histories.
April 29 – August 20, 2017
Craving more? You can see over 1,500 artists in 200 exhibitions and happenings throughout the Greater Toronto Area at the 2017 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2017 from April 29 through June 24.
You can also take one of the AGO’s spring photography classes and release your inner shutterbug!
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The AGO/Contact International Photography Talks are supported by Penny Rubinoff.
Free Black North and AGO Photography Collection, 1840s-1880s are presented in partnership with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.