{"id":16621,"date":"2013-05-22T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T16:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?p=16621"},"modified":"2013-05-22T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T16:15:20","slug":"bill-woodley-at-the-toronto-galleries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?p=16621","title":{"rendered":"Bill Woodley At the (Toronto) Galleries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"North<\/a><\/p>\n

North of Ob River<\/em>, Sebastiao Salgado<\/h6>\n

CONTACT 2013<\/h3>\n

Last week photo club members Dave Haggarty, Jacques Mailloux and I spent 4 days in Toronto looking at 50 or so of the 170 exhibitions in this year\u2019s Contact Photography Festival<\/strong>. It runs through May but many shows continue into June and some last longer.<\/p>\n

For the complete lineup of shows, visit: scotiabankcontactphoto.com<\/a>. Almost all the venues are free entry (if you can find parking!) and most have paper copies of the map and the complete catalogue available free of charge. There are also lots of opening receptions, free lectures, workshops and other special events.<\/p>\n

Contact is huge, with venues all over the city, with a broad theme (\u201cField of Vision\u201d) and with over 100 \u201copen\u201d exhibitions — so, naturally, quality of work and styles vary greatly. We have been visiting for over a decade now and this year, as usual, we found some shows totally absorbing, some a total waste of time, and most somewhere in between but with at least one or two stimulating images. I\u2019m sure we missed some good shows, but that\u2019s inevitable.<\/p>\n

The marquee exhibition by Sebastiao Salgado at the ROM<\/strong> was spectacular and massive \u2013 240 large prints. This one isn\u2019t free, but definitely worth the Museum\u2019s price of admission. If you have limited time, you can see a good selection of his prints free of charge at the Nicholas Metivier Gallery<\/strong> on King St. W. \u2013 and you\u2019ll get an idea of his prices!
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\nQueen Street West is always worth a visit. Some highlights for me this year were Danny Lyon\u2019s biker B&W prints at the Stephen Bulger Gallery<\/strong>, large format Toronto historic buildings at the Twist Gallery<\/strong>, and two shows at the Gladstone Hotel<\/strong>: \u201cIn the Playroom\u201d series by Ottawa\u2019s Jonathan Hobin, and portraits of Canadians from the archives of Macleans Magazine.<\/p>\n

The Distillery District usually has 5-10 shows and is home to Picto<\/strong> as well as Jane Corkin<\/strong>, Canada\u2019s premiere photography gallery. My personal favourite is Proof Studio Gallery<\/strong>, a small one run by a couple – John Drajewicz and Sheila Jonah – who make beautiful landscape colour prints.<\/p>\n

Scattered across the rest of the city we also found the following of interest:
\nFilmmaker Jerry Schatzberg\u2019s large B&W portraits of 60\u2019s era media stars at the Nikola Rukaj Gallery<\/strong> up on Eglinton West (Dylan, the Rolling Stones in Drag, Jane Fonda)
\nIn centretown the new Ryerson Image Centre<\/strong> is worth a look, as is Chris Marker\u2019s \u201cMemory of a Certain Time\u201d exhibition at the TIFF Bell Lightbox<\/strong>. Another area generally worth visiting is the Junction \u2013 no parking problems here, and about 15 shows in a 3 block stretch of Dundas West.<\/p>\n

Bill Woodley, 21 May 2013<\/p>\n

\"Jerry<\/a><\/p>\n

Jerry Schatzberg Photography from the 1950’s – 60’s<\/h6>\n
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