2015 Events at the IMC

As a photographer for Black Star photo agency between 1958 and 1965, Moore amassed a significant body of documentary photography depicting some of the most critical conflicts of the American Civil Rights Movement. His work during this period begins and ends in Montgomery, Alabama: the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s arrest at a courthouse in 1958, and the destination of several thousand civil rights marchers during the legendary Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965.

Belmore (Anishinaabe) is a member of the Lac Seul First Nation, currently living and working in Montreal. Through a variety of media, including performance, sculpture, video and installation, she confronts Canada's continued colonial impact on First Nations peoples and through her practice subverts both historical and contemporary power structures to release and empower her community through art.

Her work will appear alongside six other contemporary artists in Anti-Glamour: Portraits of Women, on view at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre) from January 21 to April 5, 2015.

This event is free and open to the public. Please arrive early to ensure seating.

At 6pm, Carole Tanenbaum will discuss her own collection of vintage costume jewelry, on display in conjunction with our glamorous exhibition. 25% of the proceeds from the sale will support future initiatives at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre).

The conference will take place over two and a half days and will be divided into fours sections to highlight thematic similarities and shared concerns: “The Role of Photographic Reproductions,” “The Business of Photography,” “The Construction of Photographic Meanings” and “Art Photography in the Making."

Registration: Admission to the event is free. Seating is limited and provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

The symposium is organized by The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre), with generous support from Toronto Metropolitan University's (formerly Ryerson University) School of Image Arts.

In 2014, The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre) received an acquisition of thirty-six photographs by Canadian photographer Elaine Ling. These new holdings supplement the existing collection of works by Ling donated in 2002, which as a group represent a significant body of photographs examining constructed environments. Seeking the solitude of deserts and abandoned structures left by ancient cultures, Ling has explored the shifting equilibrium between the natural and the man-made in her photography.

Mark Ruwedel (b. 1954, American, Canadian citizen) has become one of Canada’s most respected landscape photographers during a career spanning three decades. Working primarily in the western territories of the United States and Canada, Ruwedel documents traces and imprints of human activity on the earth. He describes the process as “an inquiry into the histories, cultural and natural, of places that reveal the land as both a field of human endeavour and an agent of historical processes.”

The lecture is presented in conjunction with the Scotiabank Photography Award: Mark Ruwedel exhibition, on view at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre) from April 29 to June 28, 2015. Arrive early to ensure seating!

Admission is free. Free books while supplies last! The lecture and book giveaway are generously supported by Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. The event is first-come, first-served. Seating is limited.

As an influential figure in the history of photography, Andreas Feininger’s career included twenty years as a staff photographer for LIFE magazine. The son of Expressionist painter Lyonel Feininger, he was educated at the Bauhaus in Weimar in the 1920s, and later studied architecture in Dessau. A prolific writer, he is the author of more than fifty books on photography.