Sidney Carter and Alfred Stieglitz: The Canadian Pictorialist Exhibition (1907)

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Title
Sidney Carter and Alfred Stieglitz: The Canadian Pictorialist Exhibition (1907)
Abstract
The author explains that on a late autumn afternoon in 1907, to the sweet strains of orchestral music, 500 of Montreal's cultural elite turned out for the opening of Canada's first international exhibition of pictorial photographs, in the galleries of the Art Association of Montreal, the oldest and most prestigious art museum in the dominion. Pictorialism was a fine arts movement in photography that distanced itself from both commercial photographers and the established camera club circuit, and sought out more prestigious alignments within the larger art milieu. Sidney Carter, a young Photo-Secessionist who had moved to Montreal from Toronto in 1906, zealously determined to advance ‘the cause’ of pictorialism and had single-handedly solicited the support of the Art Association, gathered the prints, written the catalogue and hung the show.
Publication
History of Photography
Volume
Vol. 20
Issue
no. 2
Pages
160-162
Date
1996
Language
en
Citation
Strong, David Calvin. “Sidney Carter and Alfred Stieglitz: The Canadian Pictorialist Exhibition (1907).” History of Photography Vol. 20, no. 2 (1996): 160–162.
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