Unfinished Business: Photographing Vancouver Streets 1955 to 1985
2005
One of two catalogues published by Presentation House Gallery in conjunction with their exhibition Unfinished Business: Photographing Vancouver Streets 1955 to 1985, January 11 to March 2, 2003. Unfinished Business is a critical examination of the streets and street life of the City of Vancouver and its environs. The exhibition explores the history of 'street work' from a key period in the city's development. This thirty year period was chosen for several reasons, one of which was to acknowledge the work of Fred Herzog, who has photographed the city since 1954, more or less launching the post-was photo documentation of Vancouver. At the other end of the thirty year period is Expo '86, the world's fair that forever changed the city. The main subject of the exhibition is quotidian Vancouver—our everyday urban reality as it happened to be captured on film. The photographs of Vancouver's street life in the exhibition take the city's pulse in it's last years as a "small town on the coast."
The Polygon
The Polygon
Identifier
L0174Call Number
FC3847.37.U54 2005Extent
287 pages : illustrations ; softcover 23 cmLanguage
ISBN
9780920293676Volume
39Issue
2Series Statement
West Coast Line 47Place of Publication
North Vancouver, BCPublication Type
PrintContributor
Rob Brownie, Annabel Vaughn, Petra Watson, Fred Douglas, Jeff Wall, Henri Robideau, Jamie Reid, Garry Morse, Clint Burnham, Wayde Compton, Robert Sherrin, Adrienne Burk, Marie Annharte Baker, Christos Dikeakos, Derek Simons, Fred Herzog, Michael Barnholden, Sharla Sava, Stephen Osborne, Cory Verbauwhede, Fred Wah, Ian Wallace, Godon Cornwall, Brett Enemark, Meredith QuartermainCurator
Bill JeffriesCollection
grunt gallery LibraryCopyright West Coast Line, Presentation House Gallery, the artists, and authors, 2005.