Art Windsor-Essex respectfully acknowledges that we are located on Anishinaabe Territory – the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. Today the Anishinaabe of the Three Fires Confederacy are represented by Bkejwanong. We want to state our respect for the ancestral and ongoing authority of Walpole Island First Nation over its Territory.
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Land Marks: Contemporary Photographs from the AGW Collection Works by Christine Burchnall, Stan Douglas, ThinkArchitecture, Bill Vazan and Douglas Walker
April 12, 2012 - June 10, 2012
AWE Gallery
![2001.175](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2001175-300x233.jpg)
Douglas Walker, Untitled #11, 1987, gelatin silver print, 120.0 cm x 92.0 cm, Gift of Carmen and Claire Colangelo, 2001
‘To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.’
– Susan Sontag, On Photography
We live in an image-saturated world. From family albums to police files, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, to our mobile phones, digital cameras, hard drives with file sharing programs, we navigate through a shapeless empire of accrued images. Since the camera is literally an archiving machine every photograph is an archival object. This exhibition brings together a range of photographic practices – from ones that are conceptually staged to documentation and archiving practices – that examine, memorialize and interpret the conditions of the post-industrial landscapes and built environment of the Windsor/Detroit region through the lens of various photographers from the collection of the Art Gallery of Windsor.
In this exhibit
![2001.175](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2001175-300x233.jpg)
Douglas Walker, Untitled #11, 1987, gelatin silver print, 120.0 cm x 92.0 cm, Gift of Carmen and Claire Colangelo, 2001
![1999.005](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1999005-300x249.jpg)
Stan Douglas, Row Houses at Herman Gardens (from the series Le Détroit), 1998, chromogenic print, 61.0 cm x 51.0 cm, Gift of the artist, 1999
![Douglas Walker](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/office-building-on-eight-mile-road-300x245.jpg)
Stan Douglas, Office Building on Eight Mile Road (from the series Le Détroit), 1998, chromogenic print, 61.0 cm x 51.0 cm, Gift of the artist, 1999
Media
![<p> Christine Burchnall (Canadian, b. 1960) <br />Terminallaminated inkjet prints, wood (2 parts) <br />Purchased with financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Acquisitions Assistance program, and with funds from the Garnet W. and Eva Dora Humphrey Bequest, 1998a</p>](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/land-marks-installation-view-2-300x200.jpg)
Land Marks (installation view)
![<p>Photographed by Frank Piccolo</p>](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/land-marks-and-re-enacting-resistance-centre-300x200.jpg)
Land Marks and Re-enacting Resistance (centre)
![<p>right:</p>rn<p>Bill Vazan (Canadian, b. 1933) <br />Motor Cities' Rocket (Windsor and Detroit) 1980-81<br />silver gelatin prints<br />Purchased with funds contributed by the Art Gallery of Windsor Volunteer Committee with the assistance of the artist and Canada Council</p>rn<p>left: </p>rn<p>ThinkArchitecture (Peter Mörtenböck and <br />Helge Mooshammer)<br />from the series Operation Desert Windsor Ontario 2007<br />digital colour photographs mounted on foamboard<br />Gift of the artists, 2007</p>](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/land-marks-installation-view-1-300x200.jpg)
Land Marks (installation view)
![Photograph by Frank Piccolo](https://artwindsoressex.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/land-marks-installation-view-300x200.jpg)