This page gathers photographers connected to Canada and traces how each links to a period and movement in the history of photography.
Jeff Wall extended photography from a medium of momentary record to one that constructs how events appear — through large lightbox works, cinematic preparation, and a rereading …
Canadian-born artist born in 1962, based in Chicago, known for still-life and domestic interior photography. Her work shifted from portraiture toward still life in the late …
Canadian artist born in 1957, associated with the Vancouver context often described as photo-conceptualism, though he has resisted that label. Known for color photographs of …
Austrian artist duo working together since 1993, closely associated with photography, architecture, and urban representation. Their work is important for a photography-history …
Jessica Eaton is known for Cubes for Albers and LeWitt (cfaal), in which she repeatedly exposes white, black, and gray cubes with a 4×5 camera through red, green, and blue …
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer who has photographed landscapes transformed by the extraction, processing, transport, and consumption of resources: mines, quarries …
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