Press Release

Geoffrey James
From April 19th to May 31st, Galerie René Blouin presents an exhibition of recent photographs by Geoffrey James. The show will feature images done in the last two years notably at the Desert Garden of the Huntington Library in Passadina (California) and in a private garden in Alberta.

Born in Whales and trained as an historian, Geoffrey James has been making photographs since the early Seventies. For close to forty years now, armed with his cameras, James has surveyed a wide array of parks, gardens and natural sanctuaries. From the refined classical French and Italian gardens to Olmsted’s great landscape arrangements, from the desolate sites of open mines to the corrugated wall on the Mexican American border, he has amorously observed the landscape and its respiration through his lens. His innumerable solitary wanderings have given an imposing number of photographs which, through the years, have formed prodigious chronicle.

Geoffrey James’ work will be the object of a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada from May 30th to September 14th 2008. The accompanying publication will include essays by Stephen Bann, Britt Salvesen and Lori Pauli.

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