http://www.bulgergallery.com/dynamic/fr_artist.asp?ArtistID=20&Body=The%20Disappearance%20of%20DarknessSome images from the
Robert Burley series
Disappearance of Darkness, which documents the final year of the Kodak Canada facility in Toronto. This facility, which was made up of 18 buildings on a 5 hectare site, had a one hundred year history of producing photographic films and papers. It was sold in 2006 and demolished in the summer of 2007.
From the press release:
"Toronto artist Robert Burley is currently documenting the fate of chemical photography, recording the abandonment and demolition of various Kodak plants. The films, papers and processing chemicals these factories produced will soon be obsolete, although Burley himself is still physically printing images from negatives, albeit ones he edits digitally. The most notable of Burley's large, highly detailed colour photographs shows the implosion of buildings 65 and 69 at Kodak Park in Rochester, N.Y., where a crowd that includes people who worked in the plant busily snap pictures of its demise on their digital cameras. Whatever sacrifices it may demand, technology is irresistible. A giant mural of this hugely ironic image - created thanks to digital technology, of course - now greets anyone who enters the courtyard of Toronto's Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art on Queen Street West."
*Snif. Snif.
-Jason
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Below:
Robert Burley, Demolition of Buildings 65 & 69 Kodak Park, Rochester[Sorry, image deleted during forum software upgrade. Please re-upload if so inclined.]
