I visited the opening exhibition of the exciting new Ryerson Image Centre in downtown Toronto, a renovated
and remodelled former warehouse building at Gould and Bond Streets. The space is shared with the School of Image Arts.
. The centre combines:
- three public gallery spaces
- New Media Colonnade at the entrance
- a fully staffed professional research centre with museum-quality
environmental controls
- a climate controlled vault built to contain a million photographic
images, including The Black Star Collection
- Ryerson University Fine Art Photography Collection
- Great Hall reception, conference and screening area
It was created in part to display some of the 292,000 photos which it had received as an anonymous bequest from Black Star , a photographic agency. The current exhibition features students and alumni of the school. Future exhibits begin after the holiday season.
If you get tired of viewing photographic art , you can skate on the very attractive small rink just at the side of the building.
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