{"id":2783,"date":"2011-08-25T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2012-04-30T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:28:01","slug":"songs-of-the-future-canadian-industrial-photographs-1858-to-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=2783","title":{"rendered":"Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>August 20, 2011 – April 29, 2012<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/strong>ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO<\/strong>
\n317 Dundas Street West,
\nToronto, ON M5T 1G4
\nT:416-979-6648
\nwww.ago.net<\/a>
\nHours: Tue & Thurs \u2013 Sun 10 \u2013 5:30, Wed 10 \u2013 8:30<\/p>\n

A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario traces the history of Canada\u2019s changing industrial landscape through the lens of some of the country\u2019s most extraordinary photographers from the past 150 years. Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today\u00a0<\/em><\/a> includes more than 100 photographs by such artists as Alexander Henderson, William Notman, John Vanderpant, E. Haanel Cassidy, Ralph Greenhill, George Hunter and Edward Burtynsky.<\/p>\n

Depicting railway and bridge building, quarries and mines, and the lumber, pulp and paper, and concrete industries in Canada, Songs of the Future<\/em><\/strong> traces the shifting perspectives on industry and the Canadian landscape from the Industrial Revolution to today. The exhibition highlights the ways in which the photographers’ perspectives on industry have shifted along with those of society at large, as celebratory images of human domination over nature give way to more critical views of industrial impact.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is curated by Sophie Hackett, the AGO\u2019s assistant curator of photography, who integrates works from various periods into thematic concentrations, including images featuring: the construction of the Victoria Bridge over the St. Lawrence River in the late 1850s; the building of the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company, a pulp-and-paper mill located in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, in 1912; and the development of the railroad in Canada.<\/p>\n

“The exhibition explores the history of Canadian photography through the topic of industrial imagery,” says Hackett. “Featuring sites from the Maritimes to the west coast, and rooted in the fundamentally Canadian genre of landscape, the photographs bear witness to the various aesthetic techniques and styles emphasized by Canadian photographers over the past 150 years.”<\/p>\n

The exhibition,\u00a0 comprises chiefly works from the AGO collection, augmented by a selection of key loans \u2014 marking the first time that the Gallery has displayed its vast collection of Canadian industrial photographs.<\/p>\n

Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today <\/em><\/strong>is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. The AGO is deeply grateful for the late Mira Godard\u2019s support of the Gallery’s photography collection from 2007 to 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 20, 2011 – April 29, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario traces the history of Canada\u2019s changing industrial landscape through the lens of some of the country\u2019s most extraordinary photographers from the past 150 years. It includes more than 100 photographs by such artists as Alexander Henderson, William Notman, John Vanderpant, E. Haanel Cassidy, Ralph Greenhill, George Hunter and Edward Burtynsky.<\/p>\n

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