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The Vancouver Carts

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Black Dog Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Homelessness in art
ISBN : 1910433993

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Artist Kelly Wood began photographing the city of Vancouver's "cart culture" in 2004-2005, documenting the urban phenomena of repurposed shopping carts used by Vancouver's homeless population and enterprising "binners" (street workers involved in underground economies such as collecting recyclables). Over the next six years she found and shot more than 100 carts and their multifarious contents to produce a series of large-scale photographs emblematic of the conjoined realities of homelessness and ongoing gentrification in her home city. The Vancouver Carts: Photographs by Kelly Wood concentrates on this singular body of work accompanied by several essays that explore issues of property and ownership, the changing nature of the urban as polarities of wealth increase, material culture and our implication with socio-economic systems via the symbol of the shopping cart. Rooted in the context of the Vancouver art world, The Vancouver Carts series also highlights the physical and social proximity of the art world to the places and people in the city that are affected by gentrification, while simultaneously placing the labour of the artist in comparison with that of workers of this underground refuse economy. Wood belongs to the post-Vancouver School generation of artists, whose work came to prominence in dialogue with that of Jeff Wall, Stan Douglas, Ken Lum and Rodney Graham. Wood's work has been broadly exhibited in Canada at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography; the Art Gallery of Ontario; The Power Plant; the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery. Her work has been shown internationally at the Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp; Fotoinstituut, Rotterdam; and Artspace in Sydney, Australia. Published in partnership with McIntosh Gallery.

Backpacking in Southwestern British Columbia

Author : Taryn Eyton
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781771646697

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A one-stop resource for hiking backpackers in beautiful British Columbia. Planning your next backpacking adventure? This book covers all the essentials including: 40 overnight hiking trails: discover the many different routes that BC has to offer Packing tips: take only the most essential items with you (plus a few comforts) Permitting: find out what permits you’ll need, and where to get them Camp set-up: tips for where to pitch your tent and how to find water Environmental impact: learn how to Leave No Trace behind in the wilderness This book features backpacking routes from the North Shore up to Pemberton and Lytton and from the Sunshine Coast out to the Similkameen Valley. Beautiful photographs showcase what you’ll see along the way: mountain peaks, alpine meadows, waterfalls, old-growth forests, and more. Every backpacking route in the book includes bonus features: Trail maps and route descriptions Elevation, distance and time information Points of cultural and natural history Pre-planning hints about fees, permits, and reservations Suggested side trips and points of particular interest Backpacking in Southwestern British Columbia also shares options for extending an overnight excursion to several nights or a week, and for selecting hikes that match your timeline/fitness level.

The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America

Author : Julian Montague
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780226829852

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A taxonomy we didn’t know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague. Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so little about them. Where do they come from? Why are they there? Their complexity and history baffle even the most careful urban explorer. Thankfully, artist Julian Montague has created a comprehensive and well-documented taxonomy with The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America. Spanning thirty-three categories from damaged, fragment, and plow crush to plaza drift and bus stop discard, it is a tonic for times defined increasingly by rhetoric and media and less by the plain objects and facts of the real world. Montague’s incomparable documentation of this common feature of the urban landscape helps us see the natural and man-made worlds—and perhaps even ourselves—anew. First published in 2006 to great perplexity and acclaim alike, Montague’s book now appears in refreshed and expanded form. Told in an exceedingly dry voice, with full-color illustrations and photographs throughout, it is both rigorous and absurd, offering a strangely compelling vision of how we approach, classify, and understand the environments around us. A new afterword sheds light on the origins of the project.

Tear Gas Epiphanies

Author : Kirsty Robertson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773558298

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Tear Gas Epiphanies by Kirsty Robertson Pdf

Museums are frequently sites of struggle and negotiation. They are key cultural institutions that occupy an oftentimes uncomfortable place at the crossroads of the arts, culture, various levels of government, corporate ventures, and the public. Because of this, museums are targeted by political action but can also provide support for contentious politics. Though protests at museums are understudied, they are far from anomalous. Tear Gas Epiphanies traces the as-yet-untold story of political action at museums in Canada from the early twentieth century to the present. The book looks at how museums do or do not archive protest ephemera, examining a range of responses to actions taking place at their thresholds, from active encouragement to belligerent dismissal. Drawing together extensive primary-source research and analysis, Robertson questions widespread perceptions of museums, strongly arguing for a reconsideration of their role in contemporary society that takes into account political conflict and protest as key ingredients in museum life. The sheer number of protest actions Robertson uncovers is compelling. Ambitious and wide-ranging, Tear Gas Epiphanies provides a thorough and conscientious survey of key points of intersection between museums and protest – a valuable resource for university students and scholars, as well as arts professionals working at and with museums.

Vancouver Art & Economies

Author : Artspeak Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1551522144

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Since the mid-1980s, the once marginal city of Vancouver has developed within a globalized economy and become an internationally recognized centre for contemporary visual art. Vancouver's status is due not only to a thriving worldwide cultural community that has turned to examine the so-called periphery, but to the city's growth, its artists, expanding institutions, and a strong history of introspection and critical assessment. As a result, Vancouver art is visible and often understood as distinct and definable. This anthology intends to complicate the notion of definability. It offers nine essays to address the organized systems that have affected contemporary art in Vancouver over the last two decades. The essays in Vancouver Art & Economies collectively remark, both compatibly and contradictorily, on the economies at work in Vancouver art--its historical, critical, and political engagement; its sites of cultural production; and its theoretical and practical intersection with technology or policy. Considering a selection of conditions, focuses, and resources within the community, Vancouver Art & Economies marks shifting ideologies and perspectives on art, politics, society, and capital in Vancouver. Contributors: Clint Burnham, Randy Lee Cutler, Tim Lee, Sadira Rodrigues, Marina Roy Sharla Sava, Reid Shier, Shepherd Steiner, and Michael Turner.

Photography and the Optical Unconscious

Author : Shawn Michelle Smith,Sharon Sliwinski
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780822372998

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Photography and the Optical Unconscious by Shawn Michelle Smith,Sharon Sliwinski Pdf

Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the work of Kara Walker and Roland Barthes's famous Winter Garden photograph, the contributors explore what photography can teach us about the nature of the unconscious. They attend to side perceptions, develop latent images, discover things hidden in plain sight, focus on the disavowed, and perceive the slow. Of particular note are the ways race and colonialism have informed photography from its beginning. The volume also contains photographic portfolios by Zoe Leonard, Kelly Wood, and Kristan Horton, whose work speaks to the optical unconscious while demonstrating how photographs communicate on their own terms. The essays and portfolios in Photography and the Optical Unconscious create a collective and sustained assessment of Benjamin's influential concept, opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche. Contributors. Mary Bergstein, Jonathan Fardy, Kristan Horton, Terri Kapsalis, Sarah Kofman, Elisabeth Lebovici, Zoe Leonard, Gabrielle Moser, Mignon Nixon, Thy Phu, Mark Reinhardt, Shawn Michelle Smith, Sharon Sliwinski, Laura Wexler, Kelly Wood, Andrés Mario Zervigón

Fodor's Vancouver & Victoria

Author : Fodor's Travel Guides
Publisher : Fodor's Travel
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780147546814

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Fodor's Vancouver & Victoria by Fodor's Travel Guides Pdf

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years. Vancouver has a bit of everything, and it's all top-notch: fantastic food, excellent local wine, stylish shopping opportunities, boutique hotels, friendly people, world-class skiing in nearby Whistler (site of the 2010 winter Olympics), and gorgeous terrain for hiking, biking, boating, and beach-going. Fodor's Vancouver & Victoria is the guide to help you plan your time from the slopes to the surf and everything in between. This travel guide includes: · Dozens of full-color maps · Hundreds of hotel and restaurant recommendations, with Fodor's Choice designating our top picks · Multiple itineraries to explore the top attractions and what’s off the beaten path · Coverage of Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Victoria, Whistler, and The Okanagan Valley Planning to visit more of the Pacific Northwest? Check out Fodor's Pacific Northwest travel guide with Oregon, Washington & Vancouver.

Vancouver Trail Running

Author : Rich Wheater
Publisher : Gordon Soules Book Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Lower Mainland (B.C.)
ISBN : 0973259388

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Vancouver Trail Running by Rich Wheater Pdf

This book is a guide to 44 trail running routes in Vancouver, Burnaby, Port Moody, and on the North Shore, areas with ideal terrain for off-road running. The routes range from beginner jogs on flat, manicured paths to challenging mountain routes that take runners into lush and wild terrain. Most of the routes travel through a rainforest brimming with second-growth cedar, Douglas fir, and western hemlock trees. Several of the runs follow scenic seaside routes. The book includes 100 colour photographs.

Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice

Author : Julian Agyeman,Caitlin Matthews,Hannah Sobel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262534079

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Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice by Julian Agyeman,Caitlin Matthews,Hannah Sobel Pdf

Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability. The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving lobster rolls. Customers range from gastro-tourists to construction workers, all eager for food that is delicious, authentic, and relatively inexpensive. Although some cities that host food trucks encourage their proliferation, others throw up regulatory roadblocks. This book examines the food truck phenomenon in North American cities from Los Angeles to Montreal, taking a novel perspective: social justice. It considers the motivating factors behind a city's promotion or restriction of mobile food vending, and how these motivations might connect to or impede broad goals of social justice. The contributors investigate the discriminatory implementation of rules, with gentrified hipsters often receiving preferential treatment over traditional immigrants; food trucks as part of community economic development; and food trucks' role in cultural identity formation. They describe, among other things, mobile food vending in Portland, Oregon, where relaxed permitting encourages street food; the criminalization of food trucks by Los Angeles and New York City health codes; food as cultural currency in Montreal; social and spatial bifurcation of food trucks in Chicago and Durham, North Carolina; and food trucks as a part of Vancouver, Canada's, self-branding as the “Greenest City.” Contributors Julian Agyeman, Sean Basinski, Jennifer Clark, Ana Croegaert, Kathleen Dunn, Renia Ehrenfeucht, Emma French, Matthew Gebhardt, Phoebe Godfrey, Amy Hanser, Robert Lemon, Nina Martin, Caitlin Matthews, Nathan McClintock, Alfonso Morales, Alan Nash, Katherine Alexandra Newman, Lenore Lauri Newman, Alex Novie, Matthew Shapiro, Hannah Sobel, Mark Vallianatos, Ginette Wessel, Edward Whittall, Mackenzie Wood

Vancouver in the Seventies

Author : Kate Bird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1771642408

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"Vancouver in the Seventies presents 149 exclusive photos from the Vancouver Sun's extensive collection along with fascinating essays."--

Street Food

Author : Ryzia De Cassia Vieira Cardoso,Michèle Companion,Stefano Roberto Marras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317689911

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Street Food by Ryzia De Cassia Vieira Cardoso,Michèle Companion,Stefano Roberto Marras Pdf

Prepared foods, for sale in streets, squares or markets, are ubiquitous around the world and throughout history. This volume is one of the first to provide a comprehensive social science perspective on street food, illustrating its immense cultural diversity and economic significance, both in developing and developed countries. Key issues addressed include: policy, regulation and governance of street food and vendors; production and trade patterns ranging from informal subsistence to modern forms of enterprise; the key role played by female vendors; historical roots and cultural meanings of selling and eating food in the street; food safety and nutrition issues. Many chapters provide case studies from specific cities in different regions of the world. These include North America (Atlanta, Philadelphia, Portland, Toronto, Vancouver), Central and South America (Bogota, Buenos Aires, La Paz, Lima, Mexico City, Montevideo, Santiago, Salvador da Bahia), Asia (Bangkok, Dhaka, Penang), Africa (Accra, Abidjan, Bamako, Freetown, Mozambique) and Europe (Amsterdam).

Stan Douglas

Author : Stan Douglas
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1551521350

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Essays based on a monumental-sized photograph by preeminent visual artist Stan Douglas.

Vancouver Anthology

Author : Stan Douglas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0889226148

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Vancouver Anthology by Stan Douglas Pdf

This new, larger-format edition reinvigorates the Or Gallery's mandate to incite critical discourse within and outside the Vancouver art community.

Good Night Vancouver

Author : David J. Adams
Publisher : Good Night Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781602199378

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In the colorful pages of this enchanting board book, young readers are treated to a personal tour of one of the most exciting cities in the world. Children quickly recognize their favorite landmarks and attractions, including English Bay, Lions Gate Bridge, Granville Island, Vancouver Aquarium, Lynn Canyon, Science World, Library Square, Stanley Park, Grouse Mountain Skyride, snowboarding, Gulf Islands, wildlife, and more.

Vancouver Tree Book

Author : David Tracey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986505528

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Vancouver Tree Book by David Tracey Pdf

Trees tell the story of a city. Vancouver has one of the world's greatest urban forests. Vancouver Tree Bookis the key to a living laboratory unlike anywhere else on Earth. Slim enough to fit into a pocket yet filled with detailed descriptions and hundreds of colour images, this Living City Field Guide is designed for outdoor use. Bring it with you anywhere you go to discover the quiet giants living among us. Maps to 10 Tree Tour walks will help you get going. More than 110 of Vancouver's important species are profiled. Identification tips describe the size, shape, leaves, bark, flowers and more. Stories explain the history and culture behind the trees that define the city. Meant for all levels from enthusiastic beginner to professional arborist.