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The Extended Moment: Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada

February 15 through May 26, 2019

The Extended Moment brings forth around seventy works that reveal the historical, technological, and aesthetic breadth of the collection, which is little known in this country. In the exhibition’s presentation at the Morgan, works of far-flung origins are placed side-by-side to highlight recurring trends and tensions in the history of the medium. Artists include Edward Burtynsky, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lynne Cohen, John Herschel, Richard Learoyd, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Edward Steichen, and Josef Sudek.

The Extended Moment: Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada is made possible through the generosity of the Thompson Family Foundation, Inc.

Organized by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

Zanele Muholi, ZaVa, Amsterdam, 2014. National Gallery of Canada. Courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson, New York, and Stevenson Cape Town / Johannesburg.

Selected Images

Zanele Muholi, ZaVa, Amsterdam, 2014, gelatin silver print. National Gallery of Canada. Courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson, New York, and Stevenson Cape Town / Johannesburg.

Lynne Cohen, Untitled (easel), 2007, chromogenic print. National Gallery of Canada. Estate of Lynne Cohen.

Zhang Huan, To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond (Close Up), 1997, dye coupler print. National Gallery of Canada. © Zhang Huan, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Gordon Parks, Emerging Man , 1952, printed later, gelatin silver print. National Gallery of Canada. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.

Unidentified photographer, Portrait of an Unidentified Woman, c. 1850, daguerreotype with applied colour. National Gallery of Canada.

Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903-1990), Golf Drive by Densmore, 1938, printed 1977, gelatin silver print. National Gallery of Canada. © Harold Edgerton/MIT, courtesy Palm Press, Inc.

Walker Evans (1903-1975), Church of Nazarene, Tennessee , 1936, printed later, gelatin silver print. Gift of Phyllis Lambert, Montreal, 1982, National Gallery of Canada. © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.