The Image Centre

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Since 1969, the photographs collection at The Image Centre has comprised a teaching and research resource unique in Canada. Nearly 375,000 objects offer researchers the remarkable opportunity to study firsthand works by photographers of international status.

The Collection

 Historical photographs by such seminal figures as Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Andreas Feininger, André Kertész, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Steichen, and Edward Weston join works by contemporary artists including Edward Burtynsky, Clara Gutsche, Ruth Kaplan, Arnaud Maggs, and Gabor Szilasi. To more fully represent the working methods of photographers and news agencies, The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre) has in recent years acquired a number of large archival collections, including the Black Star collection of press photography, the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection of Canadian subject matter from the New York Times Photo Archive, and several individual artist archives. Other highlights include a complete run of unbound issues of the popular picture magazine Life, an important contextual complement for The Image Centre’s photojournalistic holdings, as well as nearly 3,000 19th and early-20th-century stereographic objects from the Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass Collection. The Image Centre’s longstanding commitment to collecting and connoisseurship is reflected through the continued preservation, study, and display of a wide range of photographic subjects, mediums, and approaches. 

 

Peter Higdon Research Centre

About

The Peter Higdon Research Centre (PHRC), located on the second floor above the galleries at 33 Gould Street, supports scholarly activities by students, faculty, curators, visiting artists and critical writers in an environment that maintains an extensive range of collections material.

Related resources in the form of artist files, journals and a rare books collection provide further support material. The Research Centre is staffed with professionals who are available to researchers for consultation. An accessible database is provided in aid of focused collections searches.

The Image Centre, though it owns the works in its collections, does not own copyright to all objects. Presently, we are not engaged in licensing image use or in providing reproductions.

Peter Higdon

The Image Centre's research centre is named after Peter Higdon, our founding Collections Curator, who retired in 2014 after 35 years of service at Toronto Metropolitan University. Peter played an instrumental role in shaping TorontoMet's photography collection into a world-class resource. 

Country
America : Canada
Institution type
Non French Institutions : Museum or library

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