Curt Lang, 1700 Block Commercial Drive, n.d.
Curt Lang: Vancouver 1972
March 15 鈥� July 13, 2012
Teck Gallery
Curt Lang (1937 - 1998) carved a meteoric path through the Vancouver cultural scene from the 1950s to the 1990s; that path had many twists and turns, all of which are chronicled in Claudia Cornwall鈥檚 recently published book At the World鈥檚 Edge: Curt Lang鈥檚 Vancouver. Lang鈥檚 major intersection with photography came in 1972, when a group of artists formed the Leonard Frank Memorial Society. The group received a grant under the federal LIP program to document ordinary British Columbian places and situations that would have normally been overlooked. The 32 photographs in this exhibition are a small selection drawn from Lang鈥檚 vision of Vancouver as he saw it in that year鈥攈alf the images are streets and exteriors, the other half caf茅s and shops.
Curated by Bill Jeffries.
Events
Symposium on Curt Lang鈥檚 photography (Followed by a walking tour of the exhibition)
Wednesday May 9, 2012, 7pm
Room 1600, 911吃瓜 Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street
Speakers: Claudia Cornwall, Gordon Cornwall, Bill Jeffries and Greg Lang