Process as Interpretation seeks to sharpen the viewer’s awareness through consideration of nearly identical but subtly different images. The exhibition presents seven pairs of images from the CCA collection. Although these pairs are printed from the same negative, careful comparison of the subtleties of cropping, scale, tonal gradations, and medium reveal the printing and(...)
Hall cases
17 January 1990 to 22 April 1990
Process as Interpretation: Photographs from the CCA
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Process as Interpretation seeks to sharpen the viewer’s awareness through consideration of nearly identical but subtly different images. The exhibition presents seven pairs of images from the CCA collection. Although these pairs are printed from the same negative, careful comparison of the subtleties of cropping, scale, tonal gradations, and medium reveal the printing and(...)
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When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
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22 April 2015 to 30 November 2015
The CCA in Photographs, 1987–2015
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When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
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articles
Photography as Project
Stefano Graziani; Bas Princen; The Lives of Documents, CCA collection, architecture photography, photography as a project
24 April 2023
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PH2019:0002:001-245
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A collection of 245 photographs covering the entire built work of Robert Mallet-Stevens. The collection comprises views of models, buildings, from residences to public facilities, views of furniture and exhibition displays as well as some portraits. The photographers represented include Albin Salaün, Germaine Krull, Studio Chevojon, Marc Vaux and Laure Albin-Guillot among others.
1920-1939
A collection of photographs on the architecture of Robert Mallet-Stevens
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PH2019:0002:001-245
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A collection of 245 photographs covering the entire built work of Robert Mallet-Stevens. The collection comprises views of models, buildings, from residences to public facilities, views of furniture and exhibition displays as well as some portraits. The photographers represented include Albin Salaün, Germaine Krull, Studio Chevojon, Marc Vaux and Laure Albin-Guillot among others.
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1920-1939
Édouard Baldus, more than any other photographer, defined the modern landscape and established the standard for architectural photography. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus: Landscapes and Monuments of France chronicles the Golden Age of France as seen by the photographer. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus is organized by chronological sections to reveal the evolution of(...)
Main galleries
25 January 1995 to 23 April 1995
The Photographs of Édouard Baldus: Landscapes and Monuments of France
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Édouard Baldus, more than any other photographer, defined the modern landscape and established the standard for architectural photography. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus: Landscapes and Monuments of France chronicles the Golden Age of France as seen by the photographer. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus is organized by chronological sections to reveal the evolution of(...)
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Thirty-two Italian photographers honour Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director and Chair of the CCA, on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. The exhibition reflects the concerns of Italian photographers since the 1970s and provides an overview of contemporary Italian photographic culture. Included are photographers Andrea Abati, Cesare Ballardini, Marina Ballo Charmet,(...)
Octagonal gallery
21 April 1999 to 26 September 1999
32 Italian Photographers: A Tribute to Phyllis Lambert
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Thirty-two Italian photographers honour Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director and Chair of the CCA, on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. The exhibition reflects the concerns of Italian photographers since the 1970s and provides an overview of contemporary Italian photographic culture. Included are photographers Andrea Abati, Cesare Ballardini, Marina Ballo Charmet,(...)
Octagonal gallery
Commissioned by the CCA, for three years, French photographer Serge Hambourg recorded over four hundred historic mills and factories throughout New England. By capturing their surroundings as well as by focusing on the stark beauty of their interiors and exteriors, the images trace the evolution of this building type. The photographs included in the exhibition range from(...)
Octagonal gallery ante-room
6 December 1989 to 11 February 1990
Mills and Factories of New England: Photographs by Serge Hambourg
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Commissioned by the CCA, for three years, French photographer Serge Hambourg recorded over four hundred historic mills and factories throughout New England. By capturing their surroundings as well as by focusing on the stark beauty of their interiors and exteriors, the images trace the evolution of this building type. The photographs included in the exhibition range from(...)
Octagonal gallery ante-room
Project
CI005.S1.1925.PR2
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Oud was asked to submit a design for the Paris 1925 Exposition Internationale des Art Décoratifs et Industriels. He agreed on the condition that he could submit five photographs of the Witte Dorp, Tusschendijken and De Vonk buildings. D. Hannema, director of Museum Boymans, also asked Oud to construct a cabinet to submit to the Decorative Arts exhibition as part of Domela Nieuwenhuis' print collection. Cabinetmaker, M. van Dort, built the cabinet that Oud designed; the design featured two separate sections with two doors to each section, each emblazoned with the Museum Boymans monogram (Taverne et al. 2001, 372). Project series includes photographs of the wood cabinet.
1925
Cabinet for the Domela Nieuwenhuis Collection, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, Netherlands (1925)
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CI005.S1.1925.PR2
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Oud was asked to submit a design for the Paris 1925 Exposition Internationale des Art Décoratifs et Industriels. He agreed on the condition that he could submit five photographs of the Witte Dorp, Tusschendijken and De Vonk buildings. D. Hannema, director of Museum Boymans, also asked Oud to construct a cabinet to submit to the Decorative Arts exhibition as part of Domela Nieuwenhuis' print collection. Cabinetmaker, M. van Dort, built the cabinet that Oud designed; the design featured two separate sections with two doors to each section, each emblazoned with the Museum Boymans monogram (Taverne et al. 2001, 372). Project series includes photographs of the wood cabinet.
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1925
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
11 October 1995 to 4 February 1996
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction
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Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
Centring on Eadweard Muybridge’s panoramas, this exhibition examines the representations of San Francisco from 1850 to 1880, a period of phenomenal growth and development for the city. Contextualizing Muybridge’s work, the exhibition includes multi-panel daguerreotype panoramas, photographic panoramas (including sets of stereocards), photographic-view books and albums,(...)
Main galleries
31 March 1993 to 25 July 1993
Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880
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Centring on Eadweard Muybridge’s panoramas, this exhibition examines the representations of San Francisco from 1850 to 1880, a period of phenomenal growth and development for the city. Contextualizing Muybridge’s work, the exhibition includes multi-panel daguerreotype panoramas, photographic panoramas (including sets of stereocards), photographic-view books and albums,(...)
Main galleries