Created on the occasion of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, Canadian photographer Robert Burley’s Photographic Proof is a large-scale photographic installation on the north facade of the CCA. The mural reproduces a processed Polaroid photograph, symmetrically juxtaposing the negative and positive versions of the same image, and shows an unidentified crowd observing(...)
North façade
11 September 2009 to 19 October 2009
Robert Burley: Photographic Proof
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Created on the occasion of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, Canadian photographer Robert Burley’s Photographic Proof is a large-scale photographic installation on the north facade of the CCA. The mural reproduces a processed Polaroid photograph, symmetrically juxtaposing the negative and positive versions of the same image, and shows an unidentified crowd observing(...)
North façade
The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
Hall cases
11 September 2009 to 15 November 2009
Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness
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The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
Hall cases
articles
Nature reorganized
architecture du paysage, Frederick Law Olmsted, Geoffrey James, landscape architecture, Lee Friedlander, Mount Royal Park, parc, Parc du Mont-Royal, parc urbain, park, Robert Burley, urban park
14 August 2009
Nature reorganized
Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
16 September 2010, 6pm
Robert Burley: The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
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Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
16 October 1996 to 2 February 1997
Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James
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Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
None
1 February 2018
articles
7 July 2017
The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
Text and photographs by Robert Burley
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research
January 2010 to December 2010
research
January 2010 to
December 2010
photographs
DR2012:0012:130:032
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File containing photocopies and a photograph related to the Canadian tribute to human rights. Original folder inscribed in graphite: CANADIAN TRIBUTE TO HUMAN RIGHTS PHOTOS: ROBERT BURLEY / CCA / CHARNEY
1991
Photographs, The Canadian tribute to human rights
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DR2012:0012:130:032
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File containing photocopies and a photograph related to the Canadian tribute to human rights. Original folder inscribed in graphite: CANADIAN TRIBUTE TO HUMAN RIGHTS PHOTOS: ROBERT BURLEY / CCA / CHARNEY
photographs
1991
PH2018:0012:001
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Editioned pigment inkjet print titled 'An Enduring Wilderness: black locust among sumacs, Sylvan Park, 2013' in special edition 264 page bound book titled 'An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto's Natural Parklands' published by ECW Press, Toronto, 2017 print ed. 4/20, book ed. 24/40 An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural Parklands is a series commissioned in 2012 by the City of Toronto that chronicles the extensive ravine network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and an expansive shoreline of Toronto, which has historically been overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from lake views of the Scarborough Bluffs to glimpses of the densely wooded trails in the Carolinian forests of Rouge Park, questioning their role in a diverse and growing twenty-first century city.
2013
An Enduring Wilderness: black locust among sumacs, Sylvan Park, 2013
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PH2018:0012:001
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Editioned pigment inkjet print titled 'An Enduring Wilderness: black locust among sumacs, Sylvan Park, 2013' in special edition 264 page bound book titled 'An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto's Natural Parklands' published by ECW Press, Toronto, 2017 print ed. 4/20, book ed. 24/40 An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural Parklands is a series commissioned in 2012 by the City of Toronto that chronicles the extensive ravine network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and an expansive shoreline of Toronto, which has historically been overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from lake views of the Scarborough Bluffs to glimpses of the densely wooded trails in the Carolinian forests of Rouge Park, questioning their role in a diverse and growing twenty-first century city.