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10

Media Category

Artist Provided Art Documentation

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image/jpeg

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1451493

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Original name

findingaid.jpg

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2018-08-21 11:33:03 AM

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http://btd.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/media_file/10/view

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Contributor

Trudi Lynn Smith

Creator

Trudi Lynn Smith

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JPG

Identifier

findingaid.jpg

Type

Exhibition Documentation

Finding Aid

Finding Aid is a perpetual work in response to the question “what happens when I try to re-enact a photographic moment”? Since 2002, I have been attempting to answer this deceptively simple question using archival photographs in Canadian National Parks. Formulated around reenactment, I take archival photographs on a walk and attempt to repeat them as ethnographic investigation and as visual art inquiry. This practice is fuelled by the play between the attempt to replicate the photographic act as closely as possible (for example through spatial location, time of day, season, camera type, darkroom procedures) and the revelation that the...