{"id":3133,"date":"2013-10-12T20:23:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2013-10-12T20:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T00:28:06","slug":"obsolescence-and-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/obsolescence-and-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsolescence and Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3134\" alt=\"20131012-122349-Visual-Arts-2\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131012-122349-Visual-Arts-2.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"170\" \/><strong>Toronto, October 12, 2013.<\/strong>\u00a0I have been a fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/\"><em>Globe and Mail<\/em><\/a> for over a half century now. I spotted this \u00a0photography related item this morning \u00a0in a <em>Globe<\/em> column called &#8220;<em>Week in Preview<\/em>&#8221; under a heading &#8220;<em>Visual Art<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><b>Michel Campeau: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallery.ca\/en\/see\/exhibitions\/upcoming\/details\/michel-campeau-the-darkroom-series-5325\">Icons of Obsolescence<\/a> a<\/b><b>nd Robert Burley:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery.ca\/en\/see\/exhibitions\/upcoming\/details\/robert-burley-disappearance-of-darkness-5324\"><b>The Disappearance of Darkness<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A double-barrelled blast about\u00a0the past &#8211; two powerful (and\u00a0complementary) colour photography\u00a0exhibitions at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery.ca\/en\/index.php\"><em>National\u00a0Gallery<\/em><\/a> in Ottawa on the end\u00a0of the analog photography era\u00a0and the disappearance of so\u00a0much associated with it (i.e. film,\u00a0negatives, processing plants).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Campeau, a Montrealer, has been\u00a0taking digital pictures of darkrooms\u00a0since 2005, travelling &#8216;from Havana to Ho Chi Minh\u00a0City to Tokyo.&#8217; Toronto&#8217;s Burley\u00a0has been just as peripatetic,\u00a0recording the demise of large scale\u00a0darkrooms and film-manufacturing\u00a0plants in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Opens Oct. 18.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211; James Adams<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For those with a short memory, Bob Burley spoke to us in <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/Ryerson2007.html\">February 2007<\/a>. After his book was published, I posted a note based on the Rick McGinnis blog re: the <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=2751\">death of Kodak Heights<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, October 12, 2013.\u00a0I have been a fan of the Globe and Mail for over a half century now. I spotted this \u00a0photography related item this morning \u00a0in a Globe column called &#8220;Week in Preview&#8221; under a heading &#8220;Visual Art&#8220;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/obsolescence-and-darkness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,45,12],"tags":[206,207,14,58,205,4],"class_list":["post-3133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-events","category-people","category-processes","tag-burley","tag-campeau","tag-film","tag-history","tag-ottawa","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}