Experimental Self-Portraits in Early French Photography
This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes, each of these pioneers showcased their own body as a living artifact and iconic attraction. Jillian Lerner considers performative portraits […]
Image Bank
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Woven Work From Near Here
Emily Hermant and T’ai Smith, Woven Work from Near Here. Vancouver, BC: grunt gallery, 2018 Inspired by traditional weaving practices—including Indigenous methods for weaving blankets and baskets alongside structures and patterns that have come from elsewhere—the exhibition presents recent experiments by artists who live and work near here. Juxtaposing materials and methods, the works in […]
Fringing the Cube
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An Exhibition Never Opened
Gu Xiong: Migrations (https://ahva.ubc.ca/publications/guxiong-migrations/) was originally produced to accompany a forty-five-year retrospective organized by the Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art (Chongqing, China, June 10–August 11, 2017) that was shut down before it officially opened and the catalogues were seized. The publication An Exhibition Never Opened documents these events and includes new writings. For more information: […]