Vancouver, Day 1

Thursday April 19th, Vancouver.
The date on the blog entries will be a day ahead, as we have crossed the date line and the blog time and date info is set for Melbourne time.
Well the jet lag caught up with my owner, as we didn't wake up until well after 11. So it was out for coffee and a little breakfast. The coffee was only a medium size but it was big compared to the normal size I am used to, as you can see in the pic.

After that we headed to the Vancouver Art Gallery, where there were a couple of photographic exhibitions on. One a major exhibition of a local photographer's work. Fred Herzog who had moved to Vancouver in 1953 and has produced an incredible body of work. His photographs were of secondhand shops, vacant lots, neon signage and the people who have populated Vancouver over the past fifty years. These were photographed using Kodachrome film, so many of the images have never been printed for exhibition before. Previously his work was exhibited as slide shows. (My owner remembers slide shows)

The other a historical look at photography, Acting the Part: photography as theatre, included over 90 works ranging from earliest salted paper prints and daguerreotypes thru to digitally manipulated photographs. Photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Duane Michals, Weegee, Oscar Rejlander, Man Ray, Edward Weston.