Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross

From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910–1991) was a member of an official team documenting the implementation of Nazi policies in the Lodz Ghetto. Covertly, he captured on film scores of both quotidian and intimate moments of Jewish life. In 1944, he buried thousands of negatives in an attempt to save this secret record. After the war, Ross returned to Poland to retrieve them. Although some were destroyed by nature and time, many negatives survived. Memory Unearthed presents a selection of the nearly 3,000 surviving images—along with original prints and other archival material including curfew notices and newspapers—from the permanent collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Ross’s images offer a startling and moving new representation of one of humanity’s greatest tragedies. Striking for both their historical content and artistic quality, his photographs have a raw intimacy and emotional power that remain undiminished.

Arts & Photography

Mitchell, Michael

Van Pelt, Robert Jan

Eisenstein, Bernice

Rubin, Eric Beck

Photography & Video

Art Gallery of Ontario

A bold and richly illustrated survey of the traditions and stylistic evolution of landscape painting in the Americas As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North and South American cultural identity. Picturing the Americas offers the first comprehensive treatment of this genre on both American continents, bringing into dialogue the landscape traditions of artists practicing between 1840 and 1940. The catalogue is brilliantly illustrated with 260 color images, including works by U.S. artists Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and Georgia O’Keeffe; Canadian artists Joseph Légaré, Frances Anne Hopkins, and Lawren Harris; Mexico’s José María Velasco, Uruguay’s Joaquín Torres-García, and Brazil’s Tarsila do Amaral, among many others. Leading scholars offer a Pan-American perspective on these landscape traditions: essays consider the emergence of modernism, as well as how the development of landscape imagery reflects the intricately intertwined geographies and sociopolitical histories of the peoples, nations, regions, and diasporas of the two continents.

Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

History & Criticism

<div>Emotionally resonant photographs of everyday life in the Jewish Lódz Ghetto taken during WWII From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910-91) was a member of an official team documenting the implementation of Nazi policies in the Lódz Ghetto. Covertly, he captured on film scores of both quotidian and intimate moments of Jewish life. In 1944, he buried thousands of negatives in an attempt to save this secret record. After the war, Ross returned to Poland to retrieve them. Although some were destroyed by nature and time, many negatives survived. &nbsp; This compelling volume, originally published in 2015 and now available in paperback, presents a selection of Ross's images along with original prints and other archival material including curfew notices and newspapers. The photographs offer a startling and moving representation of one of humanity's greatest tragedies. Striking for both their historical content and artistic quality, his photographs have a raw intimacy and emotional power that remain undiminished.</div>

William Notman: The stamp of a studio

Triggs, Stanley

Canadian jungle: The later work of Arthur Lismer

Reid, Dennis R.

Atma buddhi manas: The later work of Lawren S. Harris

Art Gallery Of Ontario

Perspective 86: Will Gorlitz and Nancy Johnson : November 22, 1986-January 11, 1987

Fischer, Barbara

Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Gallery/Stratford, Mar. 27-Apr. 26, 1987, and travelling to other galleries.

Rodin to Moore: Works from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario

Loring and Wyle: Sculptors' legacy

Loring, Frances, and Wyle, Florence

Boyanoski, Christine (Catalogue by)

Recent Work from the Canadian Avant-Garde (Experimental Film)

Michael Hoolboo Jonasson, Catherine, Jim Shedden, Bart Testa Eds. Michael Snow

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