If anyone's going to be in Toronto next Thursday, Dec 9, Stephen Bulger Gallery is going to have what looks like a very interesting programme:
"Press Release On Thursday, December 9th, 2004, please join us for a special evening of Magnum related events: 5: 30 PM: Magnum Stories book launch at Stephen Bulger Gallery, 1026 Queen Street West Featuring the work of 61 Magnum photographers, Magnum Stories is a collection of photo stories, covering such genres as war photography, documentary, photojournalism, social realism, portraits of people and places, fashion and news. Each photographer is represented across 8 pages by a photo story of their choice, which is fully illustrated, and a text which is written in the photographer's own voice, based on new interviews with the author. We are pleased to offer Magnum Stories at a special price of $90.00 CDN, taxes included, for this one night only. Magnum photographer Larry Towell will be in attendance to sign copies of this book. 7:00 PM: The Selected Works of Larry Towell at Camera, 1028 Queen Street West Canada's foremost photojournalist and member of Magnum will present a free one-and-a-half hour performance that includes slides from conflict zones in Central America and Palestine, the World Trade Center attack and anti-globalization protests as well as work from his Mennonite and home series. He will be drawing from a soon-to-be released double CD, The Dark Years: Chronicles of War (2005) and The World From My Front Porch, original folk music collection (2006). 9:00 PM Screening of Robert Capa: In Love and War at Camera, 1028 Queen Street West (Anne Makepeace, USA, 2003) This documentary traces the remarkable life and untimely early death of one of the world's best-known photojournalists. This movie is presented in conjunction with Camera's week of free screenings (please see reverse.)" Report to follow, from your humble servant <vbg>. And, if anyone from this area (or who might be visiting from abroad) wants to go, lemme know. I think this would be a good TOPDML event - waddya say, Brooksie? <vbg> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
