Posts Tagged ‘ Art ’
American Falls in winter, Niagara Falls, New York, a photo by Art Matters on Flickr. In the spirit of winter here in Canada, I thought I’d share this lovely vintage photograph of the Niagara Falls in winter taken by Alexander Henderson in the late 1870s. Currently at the Art Gallery of Ontario, this work is an [ READ MORE ]
We now live in a digital era. While artists have always been at the forefront of new media, and incorporating contemporary ideas into their practices, the art world and more specifically art markets are slow to respond. Well new media artists are now receiving critical acclaim and digital works are increasingly making an impact in [ READ MORE ]
While conducting an inventory of the AGO‘s Eisenstaedt prints the other day, I was reminded about how much I enjoy his photography and the influence he had in American popular culture through his iconic Life Magazine images. The first time I really began to appreciate Eisenstaedt’s body of work was at the AGO’s Ansel Adams/ Alfred Eisenstaedt show, [ READ MORE ]
Welcome to Foto pHix! This blog is intended to share my knowledge and passion for the broad subject of cultural heritage, the arts and more specifically that of photography. I recently completed my Masters in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, and I enjoy learning about the many uses of photography as a contemporary [ READ MORE ]
I had the priviledge of meeting the very talented photographer Eamon Mac Mahon at the CONTACT Photography Festival in 2007. I am excited to see his latest body of work commissioned by The Walrus (“Amazon of the North“) and currently at Bau-Xi Gallery in the exhibition “Out of the Woods“. This project documents the importance of Canada’s fragile Boreal Forest, [ READ MORE ]
As someone who works in the Museum industry, specifically focused on collections information, I am always searching for creative and highly interactive ways for creating access to the world’s museum collections. I have been looking into Google’s lastest venture, the Google Art Project, an exciting concept that presents detailed views of art work from the top museums. Using the [ READ MORE ]
Interesting research project involving the use of emerging digital technologies to reanimate ethnographic items in museum collections. http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/reanimatingculturalheritage/index.php[ READ MORE ]
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