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The Vancouver carts

The Vancouver carts

Wood, Kelly, 1962- photographer.
Book 2016

Artist Kelly Wood began photographing the city of Vancouver's cart culture in 2004-2005, documenting the urban phenomena of repurposed shopping carts used by Vancouver's homeless population and enterprising binners (street workers involved in underground economies such as collecting recyclables). Over the next six years she found and shot more than 100 carts and their multifarious contents to produce a series of large-scale photographs emblematic...

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ISBN:
9781910433997
1910433993
Description:
159 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Other Title:
Photographs. Selections
Notes:
Canadiana
"This publication explores the practice of Kelly Wood and documents the exhibition The Vancover Carts: Photographs by Kelly Wood, curated by James Patten and presented at McIntosh Gallery from 3 November to 10 December 2016"--Colophon
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-159)
Contents:
The Vancouver carts : a brief memoire / Kelly Wood
Camera povera : on Kelly Wood / Clint Burnham
Shopping cartographies / Kirsty Robertson
Ghosts and vagabonds / Max Haiven
List of works
Artist biography
Artist CV
Acknowledgements
Control Number:
2055795
Other Authors:
Burnham, Clint, 1962- writer of supplementary textual content
Haiven, Max, 1981- writer of supplementary textual content
McIntosh Art Gallery, host institution
Patten, James, curator
Robertson, Kirsty, 1976- writer of supplementary textual content
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