Gallery 44 Database
of Contemporary Canadian Photography

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Subjects/Genres:

approaches:

activist
appropriated/found
autobiographical
collaborative/participatory
documentary
historical
humour/satire
narrative
random/chance
realism
staged

body/sex/gender:

aging/mortality
body
disability/illness
feminism
gender
queer
sexuality
transgender
youth

ethnic/cultural identity:

Aboriginal
Arab/Muslim
Asian
Black/African
Canadian
European
Jewish
Latin
indian
multi-culturalism

subjects:

abstract
architecture
artistic practice
digital technology
family
industry
landscape
media/pop culture
modernity
nature
nude
politics
portraiture
psychology
science
sociology
still life
street
suburbanism
technology
the gaze
travel
urbanism

themes:

The spectacle
absence
archive
conflict
consumerism
consumption
deconstruction
desire
disaster
domesticity
dreams
existential
freedom/restriction
gesture
identity/self
immigration
isolation
language/text
loss
materiality
memory
order/chaos
otherness
perception
place
public/private
reconstruction
religion/spirituality
representation
ritual
romance
space
suffering
time
vanity
violence/death

Media & Techniques:

format/presentation:

books
diorama
installations
looped
multiple panels
murals/large scale
photo-sculpture
photo/sound pieces
public art
sequences
site-specific
text in images
wall pieces

media:

Cibachrome (reversal) print
Lambda print
Van Dyke
archival pigment print
calotype
chromogenic (colour) print
colour laser prints/copies
cyanotype
digital chromogenic print
digital print
duratran
film
gelatin silver (b+w) print
giclée/inkjet
gum bichromate
mixed-media
photoetching
photosilkscreen
platinum/palladium
slides
transparency
video

techniques & processes:

digital processing
direct scanning of objects
hand-tinting/toning
liquid light
manipulation (cutting, scratching...)
mural
negative printing
performance
photo-collage
photogram
pinhole
polaroid
solarization
stereograph
superimposition