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Roger Ballen, Boarding House – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Roger Ballen

[Summer 2009] OCAD Professional Gallery, Toronto March 5 – May 31, 2009 Everything is decay in Roger Ballen’s photographs: floors, walls, toothless mouths, and lank, rancid hair. Their only “beauty” (as we warily call it) – purloined from painterly, graffiti-wired photographs of the past (Siskind, Brassai, etc.) – is inventively and mercilessly imposed, in the […]

The Contact Photography Festival, The Constructed Image – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Gyorgy Kepes, Roger Ballen, Stan Denniston

[Fall 2007] Toronto, May 1 – 31, 2007 Every May, Toronto is almost entirely given over to photography, in the guise of the CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival. This past May was the festival’s eleventh annual incarnation. The theme this year was “The Constructed Image” – which, in my estimation, is more or less code for […]