Roy Arden, Pictures and Promises

Drawn from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s rich photographic holdings, Pictures and Promises focuses on lens-based works that employ the structures, conventions and formal qualities used

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Roy Arden, Art Forum

Anna Atkins, the Victorian botanist widely considered the first female photographer, created thousands of cyanotypes depicting white negatives of flora, often seaweed, suspended in atmospheres

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Roy Arden, Musée Magazine

The mid 19th century was an era of philosophical and scientific advance. The Naturalism fad possessed middle and upper classes with an obsession for paleontology,

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Bang! Kaboom! Art!

The rubble from a “concert” in which a piano gets smashed; a
sculpture that slowly pushes apart its gallery; a drawing by a modern master…

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