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Surprisingly, a link between the geography of the Downtown Eastside and a shifting consensus of those deemed socially marginal has been a consistent theme in Vancouver since the city's inception over a century ago.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49548568232209,"sku":"GOR009466723","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50381660815633,"sku":"CIN1551521350G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50828915081489,"sku":"CIN1551521350VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1551521350.jpg?v=1750861306"},{"product_id":"stan-douglas-book-stan-douglas-9783753302188","title":"Stan Douglas","description":"DE","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746484494609,"sku":"NGR9783753302188","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51061675589905,"sku":"NIN9783753302188","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/375330218X.jpg?v=1751451882"},{"product_id":"hasselblad-award-2016-book-stan-douglas-9781910164730","title":"Hasselblad Award 2016","description":"Often people confuse photography with human vision but they're very different things, says Stan Douglas, winner of the 2016 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. [What] happens to our sense of our selves, our sense of time when so much of our knowledge about the world comes through these mechanical media, these inhuman media? Attending to such questions, The Hasselblad Award 2016, which presents three series entitled Night (2014-15), Corrupt Files (2013) and DCTs (2016), accompanied by two texts, offer intricate meditations on the function, construction and consumption of contemporary forms of photography. From HD cinematic images to abstract manifestations of data, each series probes the relationship between human and mechanical memory, each employing a particular synthetic process supported, if not entirely constructed, by computer software.    In one of the neo-noir mise-en-scenes of Night, two single vehicles drive through the darkness over Vancouver's Georgia Viaduct, their headlights glowing like the road lamps punctuating the panorama. Underneath the flyover in the southwestern corner of Strathcona, lived a predominantly African Canadian community for the better half of the 20th century, until the area was bulldozed in the early 70s to make way for the so-called inner-city freeway. Using 3D modelling software, Douglas reconstructs the neighbourhood from the vantage point of a drone: in Hogan's Alley (2014) we see multiple rooftops and luminous windows - an inhabited environment with no people in sight. Clouding the lines between real, imagined and remembered, the series attends to the shadows of history as it materialises the memory of a marginalised community.    Contrary to Night, Corrupt Files and DCTs radically depart from the realm of representation. Corrupt Files is a collection of digital images composed of densely packed multi-coloured streaks - each streak vying for our attention. Douglas built the series from files that were corrupted in the process of shooting his well-known projects Disco Angola and Midcentury Studio. DCTs, on the other hand, emerged from a rigorous attempt to 'write' images using tailor-made software that reverse engineers what happens in a JPEG encoding, producing hypnotic shapes and colours. In his interview with Roxana Marcoci published in the book, the artist places the series in the context of his recent photographic works. Noam M. Elcott's thorough, art historical analysis of Douglas' approaches to photography, further offers an illuminating reading of the artist's practice. Pushing the limits of what we know and understand to be photography, the Hasselblad Foundation recognises Douglas as an artist who has made pioneering achievements in photographic art.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50393026986257,"sku":"CIN1910164739G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1910164739.jpg?v=1750996772"},{"product_id":"vancouver-anthology-book-stan-douglas-9780889226142","title":"Vancouver Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo commemorate its 25th Anniversary, the Or Gallery is co-publishing with Talonbooks a second, updated edition of Vancouver Anthology, edited by acclaimed artist Stan Douglas, first published in 1991.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Featuring a larger format, new hardcover design and a new afterword by Stan Douglas, the republication of Vancouver Anthology coincides with a renewal of the Or Gallery's mandate to incite and promote critical discourse both within and outside of the Vancouver art community.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The essays collected in this book were first presented in the autumn of 1990 as part of a lecture series entitled Vancouver Anthology, a forum in which each contributing writer could test his or her research on the question of art and politics in public, before their papers were sent into print. Every piece of writing included here has changed dramatically since its initial presentation, in part as a reflection of the immediate response it received from the local art community at the forum and, more significantly, as a reflection of responses which continued long after that first instance of presentation. What these presentations are clearly able to provide is a critique of the institutionalization of what had been previously considered alternative art practices, a contemporary notion not unrelated to what the artistic milieu of another generation, continent and historical age might have called the \"avant-garde.\" Contributors include: Keith Wallace, Sara Diamond, Nancy Shaw, Maria Insell, William Wood, Carol Williams, Robin Peck, Robert Linsley, Scott Watson and Marcia Crosby.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51009256292625,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009259766033,"sku":"NIN9780889226142","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52688985784593,"sku":"NLS9780889226142","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0889226148.jpg?v=1750747089"},{"product_id":"stan-douglas-entertainment-book-stan-douglas-9781894212342","title":"Stan Douglas - Entertainment","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51054322811153,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054325235985,"sku":"NIN9781894212342","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1894212347.jpg?v=1750931363"},{"product_id":"stan-douglas-book-stan-douglas-9783869307480","title":"Stan Douglas","description":"Stan Douglas is the third annual publication celebrating the winner of the Scotiabank Photography Award, Canada's largest contemporary photography award for an established Canadian artist. During the celebrated career of this year's award winner Stan Douglas (starting in 1983), photography has played a vital role in his artistic development. This publication highlights the significance of the photographic image in the critical and historical reception of Stan Douglas' approach to art and media. The stories, sites and events that Douglas explores are populist, literate and timely. Frequently, his photographs describe the overlooked histories of cultural identity, displacement and injustice that reveal an uncanny resemblance to present-day events. This is achieved through an insightful attention to photography as both medium and subject. Folding the spectator into the visual culture of memory and oblivion that photographs evoke initiates profound observations about the ubiquity of photography in contemporary culture. The photographs of Stan Douglas affirm the validity and volatility of the photographic medium at this decisive moment in the history of art and photography.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51062437249297,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51062440263953,"sku":"NIN9783869307480","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/386930748X.jpg?v=1750871473"},{"product_id":"stan-douglas-and-gordon-douglas-book-stan-douglas-9780944521373","title":"Stan Douglas and Gordon Douglas","description":"Double Vision presents two of the most talked about video artists on the contemporary scene: Stan Douglas and Douglas Gordon. 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