Focus Series
The Focus Series is an ongoing partnership between Library and Archives Canada and the National Gallery of Canada, building on the rich collections of both institutions.
![Peter Pitseolak, Untitled (Aggeok, wife of Peter Pitseolak, wearing beaded amautik [parka with a pouch at back to carry an infant] with butterfly made by her husband), c. 1940–45, gelatin silver print.](https://www.gallery.ca/sites/default/files/styles/ngc_scale_1200/public/focus-series-arctic-thumb_0.jpg?itok=0Ivu4tG1×tamp=1648833465)
Encounters: The Arctic
Since the late nineteenth century, photography has recorded encounters between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the Arctic.
ON VIEW UNTIL MAY 2024
Staging in the Studio
Depictions of Canadian winter activities such as tobogganing, skating and hunting were popular in the nineteenth-century. Because of technical limitations in photography of the time, studios constructed elaborate stage sets to recreate these activities.
ON VIEW UNTIL MAY 2024
Pictorialism
The predominant aesthetic in photography throughout the first half of the twentieth century was pictorialism.
ON VIEW UNTIL MAY 2024
Pulling Their Weight: Dog Teams in Indigenous and Canadian Art
This installation celebrates one of humankind’s oldest companions, the dog, and how it has been depicted in historical and contemporary images.
ON VIEW UNTIL MAY 2024
Work is art/Art is work
This installation examines the various ways artists responded to the critical issues of the Depression era.
ON VIEW UNTIL DECEMBER 2023
Past Installations
Photographic Illustrations in the Nineteenth Century
Before the halftone process came into general use in the 1880s, it was impossible to reproduce photographs in newspapers and books directly.
ON VIEW UNTIL AUGUST 2022
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