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7 July 2017
The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
Text and photographs by Robert Burley
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PH2014:0008:013
2010
The Disappearance of Darkness Series: Interior #1, Polaroid Headquarters, Waltham, MA, United States
PH2010:0009:015
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1 chromogenic colour print
2009
The Disappearance of Darkness Series: Interior #1, Polaroid Headquarters, Waltham, MA, United States
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PH2010:0009:015
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1 chromogenic colour print
PH2014:0008:008
2009
The Disappearance of Darkness: Interior of Building WI, Polaroid, Waltham, Massachusetts
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PH2014:0008:008
PH2010:0009:014
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1 chromogenic colour print
2009
The Disappearance of Darkness Series: View of Main Building, Polaroid Headquarters, Waltham, MA, United States
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PH2010:0009:014
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1 chromogenic colour print
PH1985:0303
1968
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
Luigi Ghirri / Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves presents a visual dialogue between two leading figures in contemporary Italian art and culture. Their discussion is based on a sympathy between photographer and architect that is grounded in a shared fascination for a region—the Padana of northern Italy—and a common belief both in the autonomous eye of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
21 August 1996 to 24 November 1996
Luigi Ghirri/Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves
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Luigi Ghirri / Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves presents a visual dialogue between two leading figures in contemporary Italian art and culture. Their discussion is based on a sympathy between photographer and architect that is grounded in a shared fascination for a region—the Padana of northern Italy—and a common belief both in the autonomous eye of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
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
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PH1991:0203:001
April 1990
Polaroid made in connection with Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill, California, United States
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PH1991:0203:001
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April 1990