THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN 2019

THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN 2019 
By Bernard Bujold 
If there is an exhibition to be seen during the holiday season it is the one on photography presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. A way to better understand what photography is in this modern era and with the new year 2019 on our doorstep. 
The photos on display come from the collection Jack Lazare, a Montreal collector. 
I visited the exhibition and I can say that, although sober and easy in terms of images, everything about the art of photography is found in this presentation. For young photographers as well as for experts, as for the general public, a look at this collection of a hundred photos becomes a real total look at what photography is about. Everything is there and you just have to look to understand and learn. 
For fans of anecdotes, the opening photo from the presentation is a topic of discussion among photographers since several years. Indeed the image "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange was taken in 1936. In 1939, the author decided to erase in the dark room the thumb of the woman that we saw at the bottom of the image (a kind of maneuver like the photoshop of today...). 
The photo exhibition at the Museum continues until April 28, 2019 Note that between December 22 and January 6 access to the museum is free for the general public except the main exhibition (Calder). 
 SEE PHOTO ALBUM OF THE EXHIBITION