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Five arts shows to brighten up the final weeks of the winter season
Kate Taylor
obituary
Photographer George S. Zimbel captured human moments, whether shooting celebrities or ordinary people
Photographer George S. Zimbel
opinion
Artist Zun Lee’s lost Polaroids show the spirit of the Black diaspora
Kate Taylor
arts
Edward Burtynsky shares Sony World Photography Award honour with Ukraine’s photographers
alberta
Vancouver photo festival captures little, huge pieces of life
Capture Photography Festival’s billboards installation - A Journey Reframed by Miranda Barnes: Tiffany and Gio, 2018. Credit: Jocelyne Junker / Courtesy of Capture Photography Festival
canada
World Press Photo judges talk about award-winning images selected this year
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books
Rawi Hage turns his lens on skewed reality in latest book Stray Dogs
Hats: A peculiarity in the work of the surrealist painter Magritte is his repeated depiction of hats—and not just any hat in any place, but a particular kind of hat in a particular space. If one looks more closely at this seemingly inconsequential detail in the much grander canvas of the Surrealist Revolution, one notices that Magritte’s hats always appear near to, or in, an exterior space. Subconsciously, Magritte was reinforcing the idea that hats are to be worn outside, and not inside, buildings. Removing one’s hat indoors was the convention inside the most rigid institutions in his world: places of worship, places where military officers gathered, dinners at respectable homes. One might argue that despite his wild and unconventional paintings, René Margritte remained a prisoner of the norms of his time, and his own latent, subconscious visions. Caption written by author Rawi Hage who also took photo. Credit: Rawi Hage / Courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada
opinion
Infinite distance: Rita Leistner and Don McKellar’s night journeys in locked-down Toronto
Rita Leistner and Don McKellar
tokyo olympics
Did you see that? Striking photographs captured during the Tokyo Olympics
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obituary
Photographer Faye Schulman lived in the forest with resistance fighters during the Holocaust
art & architecture
Feast for the Eyes exhibition at B.C.’s Polygon Gallery examines nuances of food photography
2_Callis, Jo Ann.jpg2_Callis, Jo Ann Jo Ann Callis, Untitled, 1994, from the series Forbidden Pleasures, Archival pigment print. Courtesy the artist and Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, California. From Araki to Warhol: the story of photography through food at The Polygon The Polygon Gallery’s sweeping exhibition Feast for the Eyes captures the history of photography through the subject of food Canadian premiere features the work of Nobuyoshi Araki, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and more than 60 renowned artists
canada
Underexposed: My photo journal of the pandemic’s isolating year
obituary
National Film Board producer Lorraine Monk was driving force in Canadian photography
This week Lorraine Monk, pictured here July 9, 1981, finally unveiled her long-awaited proposal for a huge encyclopedic museum of contemporary Canadian photography to be based in Toronto with associated centres throughout the country. As the head of the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board from 1960 to 1980; Mrs. Monk became the most controversial and powerful figure in the Canadian photographic community. She admits that "photographers have called it [her plan] a mad dream." Photo by John Wood / The Globe and Mail. Originally published July 11, 1981.
opinion
Photo finish: What would I discover – and rediscover – in these rolls of long-forgotten film?
Jana G. Pruden
stars and dogs
The Globe’s stars and dogs for the week
art & architecture
Vancouver artist Dana Claxton wins Scotiabank Photography Award
Dana Claxton Headshot - Photo credit Dana Claxton, courtesy of the artist.jpg
review
Toronto’s Contact festival goes virtual, laying bare the value of experiencing art in person
Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto Jean-Franois Bouchard "In Guns We Trust" Courtesy of the artist. DO NOT CROP IMAGES
canada
Motherhood in the coronavirus pandemic
From the project Dramatic Domesticity (l-r: Senna, Cindy, Odessa, Sebastien)
home & design
How photobooks, and other photo products, became the new Polaroid
Album with photos of travel and vintage Photo book Photobook
canada
On Earth Day, photographer Edward Burtynsky reflects on our duty as stewards of nature
Spring Landscape Study, Ontario, Canada, April 2020. This photograph is from a new body of work Edward Burtynsky is creating while in isolation, focused on natural landscapes.
canada
Louie Palu on the challenges of photographing in the Arctic
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canada
A lens on 2019: The year’s best images, as seen by Globe photojournalists
Guelph, Ont., Feb. 20: Canadian sprinter Kudakwashe Murasiranwa runs at the Gryphon Fieldhouse ahead of the OUAA track meet.
british columbia
Demystifying witchery stereotypes in Jessie Robertson’s photography
music
Lights, camera, rock 'n' roll: Toronto’s Analogue Gallery champions young Canadian concert photographers
July Talk by Kylee Winn.
world
'You learn quickly or you die:' Photojournalist Tim Page on covering the Vietnam War
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