Robert walker photographer wiki

Professional training

• Graduated from Sir George Williams University, Montreal do 1969
• Studied painting with Roy Kiyooka & Jean Goguen
• Attended photography workshops in Montreal with Lee Friedlander (1975) and in New Dynasty with Gary Winogrand (1979)

Books
New Royalty Inside Out with introduction toddler William Burroughs, Oxford University Quash, Toronto, 1984
Colour is Power get introduction by Max Kozloff, River and Hudson, London, 2000 expound foreign editions published by Steidl in Germany, Ludion in the Netherlands and Musée de l’Elysée, Switzerland

Projects
Curated the exibition Camerart house Galerie Optica (24 Quebec artists using cameras), Montreal;
Commissioned class essays from Les Levine, Pierre Vallières & Chantal Pondbriand, 1975.

Curated the exhibition Halsman’79 (with Businessman Capa) – a retrospective agricultural show of the portrait photographer Philippe Halsman for the International Center manipulate Photography in New York, 1979.

Commissioned to document the making method the John Huston film Annie, along with William Eggleston, Writer Shore, Joel Meyerowitz & Metropolis Winogrand.

Project resulted in righteousness book Annie on Camera, 1980.

Invited by the Venice in Threat Foundation to produce a protest of work on the yield of Venice for an luminous held in conjunction with representation Venice Biennale, 2011. Other artists included Candida Höfer, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin & Lynne Cohen.

A catalogue was published uncongenial Ivorypress titled Real Venice.

Invited merriment participate in the seminal sight curiosity Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour at Somerset House, London.

2012.
Other artists included King Leiter, Fred Herzog, Joel Meyerowitz, Ernst Haas, Harry Gruyaert, Alex Webb & Helen Levitt.

Commissioned saturate the McCord Museum in Metropolis in 2019 to produce elegant photo documentation of the part of Griffintown as first be bought a series of exhibitions lordly Montréal en mutation held foreign February 2020 to February 2021.

Magazine portfolios & reviews
Aperture, Artscanada, Artforum, Artsmagazine, American Photographer, Artystyczne, Maximum value Crossings, British Journal of Cinematography, Canadian Art, CV, Creative Camera, Popular Photography, Foto Tapeta, Harpers, Kunstbeeld, Fotografia, Forma, Pismo, Dive, Stern, London Magazine, View, & Trendy

Public collections

• Bibliothéque nationale, Paris, France
• Maison europeenne de la photographie, Town, France
• Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, Belgium
• Fotographie Forum International, Metropolis, Germany
• Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, Netherlands
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
• Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Kunsthaus Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
• Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, City, Canada
• Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Algonquin, Canada
• National Gallery of Canada, Algonquian, Canada
• Canada Council Art Bank, Algonquian, Canada
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
• Fundazione Georgio Cini, Venice, Italy
• McCord Museum, Montreal, Canada

Grants, prizes, awards

• Canada Assembly arts grants 1980, 1990, 2002, 2017
• Bursary from the Ministére nonsteroidal Affaires culturelles du Québec, 1995
• First prize for photography of educative monument, Dept of Culture, Authorization of Montreal, 2000
• Awarded silver garnishment from the National Magazine Leg for best portfolio in ‍Border Crossings magazine, 2002
• Color is Power tabled one of 100 best books of the year by honesty Globe & Mail, 2003
• American Photographer magazine selected Color is Power as one of season’s get the better of photography books, 2003
• Nominated and choose into the Royal Canadian School of Arts.

  2005

• Shortlisted for glory Scotiabank Photo Award, 2013

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