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The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto has acquired a group of 3,500 historic images from dozens of Caribbean islands in a cache believed by the museum to be the largest and most substantial collection of its kind in North America. And the $300,000 purchase would never have happened without the support of the local Caribbean community.
Andrew explains how he goes about evaluating photographers and placing them to museum, libraries, and collectors.
Among the artists in the show, 15 are photographers or artists/filmmakers whose work incorporates photographic images
In a contemporary world filled with annoyingly perfect food images, Core’s Oldenburgs feel like a timely corrective. Their authentically muddled disorder is a return to winking subversive playfulness, where food can still be gloriously disheveled and gooey. These photographs have enough art-about-art braininess to keep them from getting too decorative, and will be easy to like for a wide audience.
“The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of camera and pen alike.” That was Moholy-Nagy’s prophecy in 1932, and what is startling about it is not only its accuracy but our persistent unwillingness to take heed of its implications despite four more decades of accumulated evidence demonstrating inarguably that photography is the most profound and energizing innovation in communication since the printing press.
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