Featuring stories about historic events and personalities, this exhibition at Toronto’s Image Centre explores the important role of photo agencies during the heyday of print photojournalism.
It’s called Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press.
Above: Hilmar Pabel, Untitled [Youngsters protesting after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by five countries of
the Warsaw Pact (the USSR, Hungary, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Poland), Prague, Czechoslovakia], 1968, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, The Image Centre.
The images from Canada & the world span a century.
The selection spans the 20th Century —from the British movement for women’s right to vote, through the Watts riots in Los Angeles, to the Oka Crisis in Quebec. Each story illuminates a different aspect of how photojournalists have worked to document the news and distribute their photographs for publication.
Watch this video to better understand what’s included in this phenomenal collection – on exhibition through April 6 (with holiday closures). Details at the website of The Image Centre.
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Terrific.
My old “Life” magazines are/were flaking apart, so I have been taking pics of articles pertinent to me.
My latest post on Art Gowns is gowns from a 1945 “Life” magazine, first holiday season after the war.
Good way to do it! No way do magazines normally last this long, so you must have protected them well.
I did. I kept them in plastic. I’m down to a select few, now.
I’m trying to declutter, and I am/do.
So, I get a space cleared out. Then the universe sends more stuff to fill in that space.
People have been sending me old fabrics, etc. for making Art Gowns.
Not complaining, but I want to live with less clutter!