Tourists at Niagara Falls
Photo-collage with graphite drawing on Stonehenge rag paper
This work represents an exploration of the relationship of photography and tourism at one of Canada's most iconic touristic attractions, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
It was constructed 1988 as a 30 foot wide photo-collage to exhibit on the long wall of the Photography Gallery at Harbourfront in Toronto, Canada. In a pre-Photoshop world, I culled a large number of photographs taken of tourists at Niagara Falls on 2 separate occasions and images of travelers from a trip to Walt Disney World in Florida, and printed them on fiber-based Kodak mural paper, cut them out and glued them to a heavy backing of Stonehenge rag paper. To meld all of the disparate images into one believable panorama, I drew in the spaces and shadows that were missing.
It was constructed 1988 as a 30 foot wide photo-collage to exhibit on the long wall of the Photography Gallery at Harbourfront in Toronto, Canada. In a pre-Photoshop world, I culled a large number of photographs taken of tourists at Niagara Falls on 2 separate occasions and images of travelers from a trip to Walt Disney World in Florida, and printed them on fiber-based Kodak mural paper, cut them out and glued them to a heavy backing of Stonehenge rag paper. To meld all of the disparate images into one believable panorama, I drew in the spaces and shadows that were missing.