BUILT TO LAST: Montreal’s Enduring Architecture
Photographs by David Kaufman
April 28 to May 29, 2015
An exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
IX Gallery, 11 Davies Ave., Suite 101, Toronto ON M4M 2A9 | (416) 461-3828
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Montreal was Canada’s most important city for well over a century and its architectural heritage, which dates back to the era of New France, remains unparalleled in Canada. David Kaufman was born and educated in Montreal but has been a resident of Toronto since 1971. In 1984, he began traveling to the city of his birth every spring to photograph its built environment. Over several decades, Kaufman captured a wide range of the city’s buildings—distinctive residences, heritage landmarks, commercial and industrial structures, and numerous religious facades. Most of the images in this show were captured on film from 1985 to 1998 and are being shown here for the first time in new, large scale prints.
David Kaufman is a filmmaker and a photographer specializing in architectural-based imagery whose previous two shows in the CONTACT Photography Festival were named among the best of the festival by Toronto Life and NOW magazines. His recent exhibitions include Vessels of Song: New Faces of Jewish Music, The Posthumous Landscape: Jewish Sites of Memory in Poland Today, and Early Sunday Morning, a show about Toronto heritage streetscapes. As a filmmaker, he has produced and directed a number of documentaries, many of them about Jewish history and culture. His latest film is Song of the Lodz Ghetto, both a history of the Ghetto and a concert film about its music.
Gallery Hours:
Mon-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat-Sun 11 am – 6 pm
Reception: Thursday, April 30, from 7 to 10 pm
Directions:
Davies Ave. runs north off Queen East at the entrance to the Don Valley Parkway. The Queen streetcar stops a block away. Some parking is available on area streets. The closest Green P lot is on Broadview just north of Queen, four short blocks away.
More information: www.davidkaufmanphotography.com