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Collective States
Collective States: Worlds of Photography at the AGO
Edited by Sophie Hackett
Goose Lane Editions with the Art Gallery of Ontario
228 pages, $50
It may seem as though photography has always been part of the Art Gallery of Ontario — and it has been for more than a century — but its photography department is just 25 years old. Collective States celebrates that quarter-century milestone. The book, edited by that department’s curator, Sophie Hackett, contains a generous selection of gorgeous images and tells a nuanced story of the people connected with the medium — both photographers and curators — and its impact.
Collective States is also a history of an institutional response to taking pictures. Is it art or not? Twenty-five years ago, the AGO officially decided that it is.
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