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HIstorical Photo Research...
What a great chance to get some WW2 pix...
David,this is for your trip to Canada...Check out the links... Book mark them for references.. One of the world's great photography collections comes to Ryerson University, Canada TORONTO, April 11 /CNW/ - Ryerson University has acquired one of the world's great collections of photography. A remarkable visual legacy of the 20th century, Ryerson's Black Star Historical Black & White Photography Collection is an internationally-renowned collection of almost 300,000 black and white photographs with extraordinary artistic and documentary value. The gift, from an anonymous donor, is accompanied by a $7 million financial contribution to help support the preservation, research, study and exhibit of the Collection. The total gift - the Collection and the financial contribution - is unprecedented in Ryerson's history and is a strong endorsement of the University's reputation as a leading international centre for the preservation, study, teaching and exhibit of photography. "We are honoured that Ryerson University has been chosen as the custodian of images that fundamentally shaped and informed how we saw the world in the 20th century," said Dr. Claude Lajeunesse, President, Ryerson University. Added Lajeunesse: "We will share Ryerson's Black Star Historical Black & White Photography Collection with the world. Our campus will be a destination for historians, photographers, and scholars from around the globe, and our students and faculty in all University departments and faculties will have the extraordinary opportunity to study this treasure trove first-hand." Black Star is an internationally renowned photographic agency that played a key role in the emergence of photojournalism as we know it today. Ben Chapnick, President of Black Star, is delighted that the Collection now resides at Ryerson University. "Ryerson is the perfect venue, because it provides not only for the exhibition of the material, but for a strong educational use as well," said Chapnick. "It completes two of my dreams: that the Collection be kept together and that it be housed in an institution that has an affinity for photojournalism." Ryerson's Black Star Historical Black & White Photography Collection includes dozens of iconic images that were published continually in popular media such as Life magazine, Look, and The Saturday Evening Post. The Collection includes works by world-famous photographers and photojournalists, many of whom have had a profound impact on the history of photography and photojournalism. It covers a wide range of subjects including major international political and cultural figures, the Great Wars, the American Civil Rights Movement, popular culture and early space exploration. Almost every notable political and cultural figure from the 1930s to the 1980s is represented, from Charlie Chaplin to Ronald Reagan to Marshall McLuhan. The Collection includes photographs which pertain to Canadian history, politics and cultural figures. Subject areas include Expo 67; the Canadian army stationed in England in the early years of WWII; Rene Levesque and the 1976 election of the Parti Quebecois; and the Inuit, including the community of artists at Baker Lake. Ryerson's internationally-renowned School of Image Arts, Faculty of Communication & Design will be the custodian of the Collection. Ryerson will open a new gallery in the heart of downtown Toronto to house and exhibit both the newly gifted Collection and the existing Mira Godard Study Centre. The Study Centre, part of the School of Image Arts, is the foremost university facility of its kind in Canada. It currently houses 1,800 fine art photography works from the 19th and 20th centuries, 140,000 slides, and other resource material which provides students and researchers access to the work of major international photographers. Ryerson's Black Star Historical Black & White Photography Collection is currently being stored in an appropriate climate-controlled, museum-quality facility. The Collection will be made available to a limited degree to faculty and other scholars for research and study purposes until the gallery opens. Ryerson University is Canada's leader in career-focused education, with more than 50 graduate and undergraduate programs in the Faculties of Arts, Business, Communication & Design, Community Services, and Engineering and Applied Science. Founded in 1948, Ryerson has full-time graduate and undergraduate enrolment of 20,000 students. The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson is the country's largest, with 61,000 registrations annually. For further information: Bruce Piercey, Manager, Public Affairs, Ryerson University, (416) 979-5000, ext. 7002; or Dana Yates, Public Affairs Officer, (416) 979-5000, ext. 7000; visit www.ryerson.ca/collection
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