Hubert Hohn: Edmonton Entrances and Suburban Landscapes at AGA Apr 27-Nov 11
April 27 to November 11, 2018
This exhibition features works from two photographic series created by Edmonton-based photographer Hubert Hohn in the 1970s.
In 1974, Hohn undertook a comprehensive project entitled “Edmonton Entrances“, in which he photographed the decorated doorways of the 1940s and 1950s fieldstone and stucco bungalows that proliferate in Edmonton. These highly-coloured and richly-detailed images reveal the incredible creativity and variety of this unique element of Edmonton vernacular design. A year later, in 1975, Hubert Hohn focused his lens on the modern residential areas in Edmonton growing suburbs. The Suburban Landscapes, shot in black and white, reveal new design aesthetics common to homes built in the 1970s.
Together, these two series of photographs tell a story of the domestic architecture in Edmonton, and reveal how we see and often overlook these essential elements of the design and image of our city.
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