Pantheon, from the Paris series | Geoffrey James
2000
15 x 19 inches (23.5 x 26.75 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
James’s work examines humanity’s imprint on the environment and suggests a fascination with urban complexity. It is particularly difficult to capture an “unpeopled” shot of Paris, which was one of James’s goals as he developed his notion of “making strange” and having viewers take a new and different look at the iconic city.
ABOUT GEOFFREY JAMES
Born 1942 in St. Asaph, Wales
Geoffrey James emigrated to Canada in 1966. A self-taught photographer, he is the author or subject of more than a dozen books and monographs and is represented in major collections internationally. James is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize and the Governor-General’s Prize in Media and Visual Arts. In 2015, a photograph by James was made into a Canada Post postage stamp in the series honoring Canadian photography. His most recent book is Inside: Kingston Penitentary, 1835–2013 (Black Dog Publishing, 2014). He lives in Toronto, where he has been named the city’s first Photo Laureate. Gallery TPW presented his solo exhibition “Genius Loci” in 1987.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Canadian Photographs,” Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (2017); “Geoffrey James: An Extended View,” Equinox Gallery, Vancouver (2013); “Utopia/Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2008)
Selected group exhibitions: “California and the West,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); “Residue: The Persistence of the Real,” Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); “Punctum: Reflections on Photography,” Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2014); “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West,” the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009)
Selected public collections: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cleveland Art Museum; Vancouver Art Gallery
2000
15 x 19 inches (23.5 x 26.75 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
James’s work examines humanity’s imprint on the environment and suggests a fascination with urban complexity. It is particularly difficult to capture an “unpeopled” shot of Paris, which was one of James’s goals as he developed his notion of “making strange” and having viewers take a new and different look at the iconic city.
ABOUT GEOFFREY JAMES
Born 1942 in St. Asaph, Wales
Geoffrey James emigrated to Canada in 1966. A self-taught photographer, he is the author or subject of more than a dozen books and monographs and is represented in major collections internationally. James is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize and the Governor-General’s Prize in Media and Visual Arts. In 2015, a photograph by James was made into a Canada Post postage stamp in the series honoring Canadian photography. His most recent book is Inside: Kingston Penitentary, 1835–2013 (Black Dog Publishing, 2014). He lives in Toronto, where he has been named the city’s first Photo Laureate. Gallery TPW presented his solo exhibition “Genius Loci” in 1987.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Canadian Photographs,” Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (2017); “Geoffrey James: An Extended View,” Equinox Gallery, Vancouver (2013); “Utopia/Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2008)
Selected group exhibitions: “California and the West,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); “Residue: The Persistence of the Real,” Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); “Punctum: Reflections on Photography,” Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2014); “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West,” the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009)
Selected public collections: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cleveland Art Museum; Vancouver Art Gallery
2000
15 x 19 inches (23.5 x 26.75 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
James’s work examines humanity’s imprint on the environment and suggests a fascination with urban complexity. It is particularly difficult to capture an “unpeopled” shot of Paris, which was one of James’s goals as he developed his notion of “making strange” and having viewers take a new and different look at the iconic city.
ABOUT GEOFFREY JAMES
Born 1942 in St. Asaph, Wales
Geoffrey James emigrated to Canada in 1966. A self-taught photographer, he is the author or subject of more than a dozen books and monographs and is represented in major collections internationally. James is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize and the Governor-General’s Prize in Media and Visual Arts. In 2015, a photograph by James was made into a Canada Post postage stamp in the series honoring Canadian photography. His most recent book is Inside: Kingston Penitentary, 1835–2013 (Black Dog Publishing, 2014). He lives in Toronto, where he has been named the city’s first Photo Laureate. Gallery TPW presented his solo exhibition “Genius Loci” in 1987.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Canadian Photographs,” Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (2017); “Geoffrey James: An Extended View,” Equinox Gallery, Vancouver (2013); “Utopia/Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2008)
Selected group exhibitions: “California and the West,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); “Residue: The Persistence of the Real,” Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); “Punctum: Reflections on Photography,” Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2014); “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West,” the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009)
Selected public collections: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cleveland Art Museum; Vancouver Art Gallery