Robert Giard: Towards the Particular

September 2–November 15, 2014
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Curated by Scott Rayter
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University of Toronto Art Centre

Disarming in their unadorned, straightforward style, the portraits featured in this exhibition are drawn from a multi-year gift of 53 works of American photographer Robert Giard to the University of Toronto. In this series, Giard ambitiously set out to create a portrait archive celebrating American and Canadian lesbian and gay literary figures in the wake of the AIDS crisis. The Robert Giard photography collection was generously donated by Jonathan Silin.

Programs: The Politics and Poetics of Visibility

Curator’s tour with Scott Rayter

Saturday September 27, 2014, 2-3pm
Video Documentation
University of Toronto Art Centre

Our Supporters

We gratefully acknowledge the project support from Manulife Financial. The exhibition was made possible by a generous multi-year gift of fifty-three photographs by Robert Giard donated to the University College Collection by Jonathan Silin.
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Title Image: Robert Giard, Allen Ginsberg with his own portrait of Burroughs, 1986. Gelatin silver print. 41 x 51 cm. University College Collection. Gift of Jonathan Silin, 2012.