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Curt Lang (1937–1998) carved a meteoric path through the Vancouver cultural scene from the 1950s to the 1990s; that path had many twists and turns, all of which are chronicled in Claudia Cornwall’s recently published book At the World’s Edge: Curt Lang’s Vancouver. Lang’s major intersection with photography came in 1972, when a group of artists formed the Leonard Frank Memorial Society. The group received a grant under the federal LIP program to document ordinary British Columbia places and situations that would have normally been overlooked. The 32 photographs in this exhibition are a small selection drawn from Lang’s vision of Vancouver as he saw it in that year — half the images are streets and exteriors; the other half cafés and shops.
Symposium on Curt Lang’s photography, followed by a walking tour of the exhibition.
Wednesday May 9, 7pm. Room 1600, SFU Vancouver, 515 W. Hastings Street.
Speakers: Claudia Cornwall, Gordon Cornwall, Bill Jeffries and Greg Lang.
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