William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) made enormous contributions to the discovery and development of photography in the early 19th century. His work arguably serves, in fact, as the foundation for modern photographic systems.
Barrie Jones is a contemporary Canadian photographer who concentrates his practice on the human figure, along with personal and collective identities concerning site and space.
During the 1970s and 1980s, American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) galvanized the New York art scene with his daring, compelling, and often explicit black-and-white images.
For nearly three decades, Ho Tam has focused on issues of race and sexuality — in particular, how Asian masculinity is depicted and stereotyped in North American culture.
Canadian artist Jerry Pethick constantly challenged the boundaries separating art and science, especially those related to imaging technologies and their purported capacities to depict “reality.”
