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Faces, Places and Spaces - November 4 to December 18, 1999

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-Introduction
-Appreciation
-L. Chrismas
-A. Nishimura
-H. Palmer
-O. Semchishen
-G. Webber

"These artists have recorded the life and times of the region for the past three decades and earned national recognition for their singular contributions to the art form."

Five Master Photographers, Introduction

This exhibition is an opportunity to see, experience and examine in the context of a group presentation the works of five photographers who have recorded the changing lifestyle of a people and settlements on the prairies. Each photographer brings a unique background of experiences, training and perceptions to the changes implicit in the everyday images of life.

These artists have recorded the life and times of the region for the past three decades and earned national recognition for their singular contributions to the art form. The exhibition brings together for the first time their shared images and sensibilities and addresses the question of a distinctive western regional style of photography.

Much of their work is a record of post-agrarian society that documents vanishing settlements and a way of life in rural communities - a record of faces, places and spaces that now exist only in memory and the photographic images of each of the photographers.

The Triangle Gallery is committed to documenting the achievements of senior artists in the community and supports photography as an art form. The exhibition fulfills both aspects of the gallery mandate. It is also an appropriate marker for the history of the province, as recorded in the collective images of Lawrence Chrismas, Arthur Nishimura, Harry Palmer, Orest Semchishen and George Webber, at the end of the 20th century.

Harry M. Kiyooka
Curator