Polygon Gallery retrospective captures Greg Girard's five-decade career photographing Pacific Rim cities
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Timothy Taylor
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A detailed look at the career retrospective of Canadian photographer Greg Girard at Vancouver's Polygon Gallery. The article explores Girard's five-decade journey photographing cities across the Pacific Rim, from his teenage years in the mid-1970s to the present. It covers the curatorial process behind mounting a comprehensive retrospective, Girard's distinctive approach to urban photography, and his documentation of rapidly changing Asian cities like Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, as well as his hometown of Vancouver.
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· 3 pulledWe're in the boardroom of the Polygon Gallery in Vancouver when it strikes me how complicated a task it is for curators to mount a full career retrospective of photographer Greg Girard
Girard has Zoomed into the meeting from his home in Surrey, B.C. So, he's up there nearly life-size on the projected wall screen next to a shared Excel spreadsheet of images
A new retrospective at Vancouver's Polygon Gallery attempts to capture the wide-ranging, time-spanning career of the Canadian photographer
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