Exhibition
16 Jan 1997 - 7 Feb 1997
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday January 16, 1997
5 – 8 PM
Death Divine: Photographs of Cemetery Sculpture from Paris, Milan, Rome
Pamela Williams
A romantic tribute to death, Pamela Williams' photographs portray the timeless beauty of late 19th-century sculpture. The exhibition, seen on Fashion Television, opens in Calgary, before heading to Montreal and Waterloo, as part of a Canadian national tour.
"Highly Recommended," "Toronto-based photographer Pamela Williams' haunting photos of European funerary monuments" "celebrate death," Now Magazine, Toronto.
"Technically superb." "This perceptive artist has produced poetic black and white photos of 19th-century sculptures." "Williams has a sharp eye for romantic details and zeros in with close-ups of shroud-draped figures, veiled muses, grieving angels .... " Lisa Balfour Bowen, Toronto Sun.
"Comforting images of death," Maclean's magazine.
"Williams' art flirts with the unacceptable notion of the beauty of death." "Pamela Williams' cemetery photography is bold art; it has all the tenderness, beauty, and courage of life." Gilbert Reid, former Director of the Canadian Cultural Centre in Rome, Exhibition Catalogue.
Toronto photographer, Pamela Williams has exhibited across Canada and in Italy at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Rome. Her photographs have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Now magazine, Camera Canada, La Repubblica, II Tempo, and other publications. Pamela Williams lives in Toronto and visits cemeteries around the world.
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