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Old 11-04-05, 17:15
Alex Blair (RIP) Alex Blair (RIP) is offline
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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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