The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project is the first of a trilogy of research and exhibition projects produced by the CCA on the medium of photography—between work of art, research tool, and document—as a means to investigate the built environment. In light of the pioneering efforts the CCA has made since its foundation in redefining the role of photography within the field of architecture as well as within research institutions and collections, the project is conceived as a display of open research where works of authors from the 1970s until today—from the CCA collection and beyond—are presented together with unpublished projects, books, publication mock-ups, interviews, and documents connected to the production of the works themselves. Takashi Homma and Guido Guidi are featured in the exhibition alongside photographers of the caliber of Lewis Baltz, Gabriele Basilico, Stefano Boeri, Roni Horn and Armin Linke among others. 

The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project embraces the idea of the documentary as an embedded quality of photographic language, and questions the relevance and actuality of photography as a means to interrogate and interpret the mechanisms that are modelling our visible world.

The Lives of Documents - Photography as Projects
Main Galleries
3rd May 2023 until 7th April 2024

CCA - Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920, rue Baile
Montreal, QC H3H 2S6

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