Contact 2010 Gala Opening: Saturday May 8th, 6:00 to 9:00 PM

You are cordially invited to Academy of Realist Art - Toronto Gala Opening for the Contact  2010 Photography Festival.

Date:  Saturday May 8, 2010

Time:  6:00 to 9:00 PM

Contact artists include:  Penelope Edgar, Joseph Michael Howarth, Erika Jacobs, Don Michie, Lindsay Murrell

About
CONTACT is an annual month long festival of photography with over 1000 local, national and international artists at more than 200 venues across the Greater Toronto Area in May. Founded as a not-for-profit organization 14 years ago, CONTACT is devoted to celebrating, and fostering an appreciation of the art and profession of photography. As the largest photography event in the world, and a premiere cultural event in Toronto, CONTACT stimulates excitement and discussion among a diverse audience that has grown to over 1.5 million and is focused on cultivating even greater interest and participation this year.

CONTACT 2010 will consider the ways in which photography informs and transforms human behavior. The festival will recognize the influence of Marshall McLuhan, on the 30th anniversary year of his death. We will present images that examine connections between mass media, advertising, art and photography. This includes conceptual approaches to photography that utilize the codes of advertising, the language of consumerism, the stylization of marketing campaigns and the force of propaganda. Photojournalism and socially concerned documentary photography will provide a realist-based examination of the emotional and political impact of images and their effect on society and culture. CONTACT 2010 will explore the personal and social consequences of the medium of photography, in a world devoted to the image.

The Human Figure: Dynamic Opposites is an exhibition of fine art black and white dance action shots, portraits, and nude bodyscapes that provide an elegant exploration of the humanfigure. Most of the photographs emphasize dancers who display the dynamic opposites of exceptional physicality (strength, flexibility, athleticism, muscle definition, body control) and beauty (poise, composition, gracefulness, expression of emotion).

Academy of Realist Art - Toronto
Works displayed from May 1 to 31, 2010

2968 Dundas St West, Suite 200
Toronto, M6P 1Y8