Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
Description
This project explores photography as a mode of architectural investigation in Montreal during the 1960s and 1970s that prompted a more critical view of the social consequences of the city's rapid transformation. By imaging the shifting physical and socio-political terrain of the post-war urban landscape, photographers engaged in critical responses to urban redevelopment and renewal practices, but they also helped to bind these discussions to broader social, political, and cultural questioning. This project considers affinities between urban activism and the movement towards women's liberation that are revealed through the photographic record of this time. It looks specifically to the work of different women who used photography as both social and spatial practice and an opportunity to renegotiate their place in a society and a city under transformation.
Period
13 May 2022
Event title
Small Modernisms: Reassessing Architecture and Urban Life in Postwar Canada