COLLECTING AND CURATING PHOTOGRAPHS:
Between Private and Public Collections

Eaton Lecture Theatre (RCC-204)
Rogers Communications Centre, Ryerson University
80 Gould Street, Toronto, Canada

Please join us for the 3rd annual Ryerson Image Centre symposium, organized by Dr. Thierry Gervais. Collectors, curators and scholars will gather to discuss how the photograph has become a collectible item and subject of academic study since the nineteenth century. Participants include: Quentin Bajac (Museum of Modern Art, NYC); Howard Greenberg (Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC); and Ann and Harry Malcolmson (collectors, Toronto); as well as 17 other renowned photography experts from around the world.

Admission to the symposium is FREE. Please arrive early for guaranteed seating.

For more information and to download the full symposium program, please visit: http://www.ryerson.ca/ric/lectures/symposium14

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014

6:00 p.m. – Welcoming Speech
DR. MOHAMED LACHEMI, Provost and Vice President Academic, Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada)

6:10 p.m. – Research Activities at the Ryerson Image Centre
PAUL ROTH, Director, Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto, Canada)

6:20 p.m. – Introduction
DR. THIERRY GERVAIS, Assistant Professor, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University and Head of Research, Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto, Canada)

6:30 p.m. – Keynote Address – “Find and Seek: Museum Collecting Strategies”
QUENTIN BAJAC, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)

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FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2014

9:00 a.m. – Doors open

BUILDING PUBLIC PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS
(Moderator: Dr. Gaëlle Morel, Exhibitions Curator, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada)

9:25 a.m. – Panel Introduction
DR. GAËLLE MOREL

9:30 a.m. – “Collecting after Collectors: The Gernsheim Legacy at the Harry Ransom Center”
DR. JESSICA S. MCDONALD, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, Harry Ransom Center (Austin, USA)

10:20 a.m. – “The Shifting Identity of a Collection”
PETER HIGDON, Collections Curator, Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto, Canada)

11:10 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. – Coffee break

11:40 a.m. – “Present and Absent: What We Don't Collect”
PHILIP BROOKMAN, Chief Curator and Head of Research, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA)

12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – Lunch break

COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHS
(Moderator: David Harris, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada)

2:00 p.m. – Panel Introduction
DAVID HARRIS

2:05 p.m. – “The Raven’s Story: 45 Years of Collecting Photographs”
WILLIAM BECKER, collector (Detroit, USA)

2:45 p.m. – “A Collection in Process”
GREGORY V. GOODING, collector (New York, USA)

3:25 p.m. – “A Shared Vision: The Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Collection”
FRED BIDWELL, collector (Cleveland, USA)

4:05 p.m. to 4:25 p.m. – Break

4:25 p.m. – Panel Discussion – “Toronto Collectors in Conversation”
STEVEN EVANS, HARRY AND ANN MALCOLMSON, and DR. KENNETH MONTAGUE

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SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014

9:00 a.m. – Doors open

PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS IN PERSPECTIVE
(Moderator: Dr. Thierry Gervais, Assistant Professor, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University
and Head of Research, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada)

9:25 a.m. – Panel Introduction
DR. THIERRY GERVAIS

9:30 a.m. – “The Album, the Art Market, and the Archives”
DR. JOAN SCHWARTZ, Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar, Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada)

10:20 a.m. – “When the Carousel Stops Turning … What Shall We Say about the Slide Show?”
DR. MARTHA LANGFORD, Professor, Concordia University (Montréal, Canada)

11:10 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. – Coffee break

11:40 a.m. – “The ‘Snapshot’ and the ‘Art Museum:’ Collectors, Institutions, and the Myth of the Common Man”
DR. ANNE MCCAULEY, David H. McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art, Princeton University (Princeton, USA)

12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – Lunch break

PASSEURS OF PHOTOGRAPHS
(Moderator: Paul Roth, Director, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada)

2:00 p.m. – Panel Introduction
PAUL ROTH

2:05 p.m. – “The Hallmark Photographic Collection: A History of Creative Patronage”
KEITH F. DAVIS, Senior Curator, Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, USA)

2:55 p.m. – “Passeurs and Sites of Passage: Curating in the Expanded Field”
DR. KEVIN MOORE, Curator (New York, USA)

3:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. – Break

4:15 p.m. – “The Evolution of a very Personal Collection”
HOWARD GREENBERG, Director, Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York, USA)

The symposium is organized by the Ryerson Image Centre, with the generous support of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Ryerson University School of Image Arts, and the Consulat Général de France à Toronto.