Events

The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology

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Peter Beard San Quentin
Peter Beard, “The affects of solitary confinement, San Quentin Adjustment Center [one of our many tortures],” 1972

Exhibition dates: June 13 – September 15, 2019

Location: The McCord Museum in Montreal

The opening reception will take place at the McCord Museum on Tuesday, June 11, at 5:30 p.m. in the presence of the curators of the exhibition.

A unique opportunity to discover the extraordinary artistic and scientific creativity of Polaroid photography. At the intersection of art and technology, the exhibition presents the original works of some 100 of the most celebrated international artists of the 20th century along with the cameras they used.

This exhibition is organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, New York, in collaboration with the MIT Museum, Cambridge, and the WestLicht Museum for Photography, Vienna.

Click here for more details on this exhibition.

Global Wildlife Conservation: No Species Left Behind

Posted on by Mark McKinney

We wanted to share an Op-Ed piece by Global Wildlife Conservation titled “No Species Left Behind,” which reflects upon a momentous U.N. report about the staggering loss of biodiversity and the effect on our world. The article was written by Dr. Wes Sechrest, who is the CEO and chief scientist of Global Wildlife Conservation, an Austin-based wildlife conservation organization whose mission is to conserve the diversity of life on Earth.

Read the full article here.

art by Peter Beard
“Kenya Giraffe on the Taru Desert,” June 1960

“Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison of our limited thoughts and feelings by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in all its beauty and truth.”

– Albert Einstein, 1954

Indigenous Peoples are the redline

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Peter Beard, Elui with Elephant Tusk
“Elui and the tusk,” March 1962.
The cover of the first edition of The End of the Game, 1965, features Elui, Peter’s tracker from the Waliangulu tribe.

“We, Indigenous Peoples, are the redline. We have drawn that line with our bodies against the privatization of nature, to dirty fossil fuels and to climate change. We are the defenders of the world’s most biologically and culturally diverse regions. We will protect our sacred lands. Our knowledge has much of the solutions to climate change that humanity seeks. It’s only when they listen to our message that ecosystems of the world will be renewed.”

– Tom Goldtooth
Executive Director of Indigenous Environmental Network