Slide Lectures features over 100 photographs of obsolete slide carousels from the collections at the Toronto Metropolitan University, York University, the University of Guelph, and Concordia University. Each carousel contains slide lectures that were once used to instruct art and design students. Hardly any of the carousels are full. The gaps are reminders that slides, unlike digital images, could be physically handled; they were swapped, borrowed for other lectures, and even lost. The photographs are titled after the lectures that the carousels contain. One particular title refers to Lyle Rexer’s book The Antiquarian Avant-Garde, reminding us that the techniques and materials of the past, widely considered obsolete, still hold relevance for many contemporary artists working today.
Essay by Alison Nordström: The Things We Keep
Slide Library (installation view), 2018. Image courtesy Michael Gibson Gallery.
Slide|Lecture (installation view), 2021 © James Morley, Ryerson Image Centre
Walker Evans at Work
Archival Pigment Print, 2020
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
Untitled
Archival Pigment Print, 2020
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
Ansel Adams
Archival Pigment Print, 2020
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
Young American Photographers
Archival Pigment Print, 2020
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
American Social Landscape
Archival Pigment Print, 2018
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
Antiquarian Avant-Garde
Archival Pigment Print, 2018
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
Being Without Clothes
Archival Pigment Print, 2020
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
Eugene Richards
Archival Pigment Print, 2020
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
George Krause I Nudi
Archival Pigment Print, 2020
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm
Group f64
Archival Pigment Print, 2020
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
Robert Frank
Archival Pigment Print, 2020
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
Women and Other Visions
Archival Pigment Print, 2020
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
Eugene Smith
Archival Pigment Print, 2018
16.75″ x 16.75″ (42.5 cm x 42.5 cm) and 35″ x 35″ (89 cm x 89 cm)
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SUSAN DOBSON 