Book Signing with Geoffrey James: October 26, 2024, 10am – 1pm
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The Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to present a book signing with Geoffrey James in the Reading Room gallery, with a selection of works on display. The event will honour the release of Canadian Photographs (Figure 1, 2024).
In this unvarnished look at Canada, renowned photographer Geoffrey James directs his gaze to the in-between spaces and forgotten places that resist the idea of a cohesive national identity. With an equable eye, James documents the ephemeral and the monumental: a demolition derby in Quebec; how an inmate at Kingston Penitentiary has decorated his cell; the Dickensian side door of Massey Hall in Toronto.
The photographs in this collection celebrate the everyday while meditating on the issues James’s adopted home faces: the bifurcation of rural and urban; rapid growth and increasing inequality; and its journey toward truth and reconciliation. Linked by views taken from train windows from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, James’s unofficial portrait of Canada brings into sharp relief the unfinished business of the nation as it lurches into the next century.
Canadian Photographs includes a conversation between the photographer and Peter Galassi, former Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art.
A limited selection of other books by James will be available for purchase including Inside Kingston Penitentiary (Black Dog, 2014), Safe Home (University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, 2011), Place (Douglas & McIntyre, 2002), and Viewing Olmsted, with photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1996).
