File contains materials related to the Revised curriculum proposal for the Film and Photography Department. File includes correspondence, reports, and the revised curriculum.

File contains memorandums and a draft from the Curriculum Committee of the School of Image Arts.

File contains correspondence and papers between the Faculty of Photographic Arts and a professor in the program.

File contains a blank student project guideline questionnaire.

File contains materials for the Motion Picture Photography course. Files include various texts, course syllabus, exams, and projects.

File contains promotional materials for Phil Bergerson's book launch and exhibition in 2004.

Ryerson received, through an anonymous donor, the Black Star HistoricalBlack and White Photography Collection and a $7 million financial contribution to support the preservation, research, study and exhibit of the Collection.This series contains announcements, a media release, invitation, news clippings anda Faculty of Communication Design newsletter documenting this historic event. There are also 3 Videocassettes documenting this event (news conference, comments)Location: A-V CollectionAlso included in this file is information on the new building being constructed to house the collection.
Please see RG 55.88 for materials associated with various displays and exhibitions from the Blackstar Exhibit.

File contains videocassettes and DVDs documenting the Black Star Historical Photo Collection donation event.

"Technical Achievement Award" issued by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Frieder Hochheim, Gary Swink, Dr. Joe Zhou and Don Northrup "for the development of the Kino Flo Portable, Flicker Free, High Output Fluorescent Lighting System for motion picture set illumnication." The Kino Flo system is described on the award as providing "high-output, flicker-free, color-corrected flurescent light to match 3200K or daylight" and as incorporating "remote ballasting" and making "available very flexible, compact, portable set lighting fixtures." The Award was presented on March 4, 1995 and is signed by Arthur Hiller, President of the Academy. Frieder Hochheim (Photo Arts '77) invented the system that "revolutionized lighting in the motion picture and imaging industry" and led the team that won the Academy Award

File contains an annotated script for an opening film exhibit titled "I Object".

File contains two film stills from a film that Mary Jane Gomes was involved in.

File contains photographs of a woman who is possibly Mary Jane Gomes, a 1982 Image Arts grad and a former Image Arts faculty member. File also includes a short biography on Mary Jane Gomes and her debut feature.

Please see RG 55.83 for general information about the donation of the Black Star collection to Ryerson.

File contains materials from the Axis New Media Festival that showcases and celebrates work by graduating students of the New Media program within the School of Image Arts. File includes posters, postcards, and a program booklet.

File contains materials from "The New Paragone: A Symposium on Cinema and Vanguard Art Movements" that was hosted by the School of Image Arts. File includes postcards, posters, and a program.

File contains promotional materials for META, the 4th year New Media Exhibition. File includes emails, a CD, pamphlets, press releases, and programs.

Sub-Series contains promotional materials for the 4th year shows in film. From 2003 on it has been known as RUFF (Ryerson University Film Festival).

Materials relating to the Image Centre including news, publicity, exhibitions, programming and photographic documentation.

The oversized post cards are artist renderings of the completed renovations of the Image Arts Building and advertise the future opening of the new gallery and research centre, anticipated to open on September 29, 2012. Before the opening took place, the gallery's name was changed to the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC).

The photographic images document the Image Arts Building prior to renovations for the RIC project. Photographs taken by Brenda Liu, A-Frame Studio.

Includes promotional, educational and publicity material for exhibitions and events held at the RIC including :

The Ryerson Image Centre Grand Opening ;
Toronto Convention About Photographic Collections : Definitions, Descriptions, Access ;
The inaugural exhibition, Archival Dialogues : Reading the Black Star Collection ;
Bernice Abbott: Photographs ;
Human Rights Human Wrongs ;
The 'Public Life' of Photographs ;
Phil Bergerson : Emblems and Remnants of the American Dream ;
Remembering The Real Winnie : The World's Most Famous Bear Turns 100 ;
Photography Historians : A New Generation? ;
All That Glitters : Carole Tanenbaum Vintage Collection Jewelry Benefit.

The file contains four posters of RIC exhibits.

The file consists of programmes for exhibitions and events held at the Ryerson Image Centre including:

• Ryerson Image Centre Grand Opening Exhibitions
• Toronto Convention About Photographic Collections : Definitions, Descriptions, Access
• Archival Dialogues : Reading the Black Star Collection
• Berenice Abbott: Photographs
• Human Rights Human Wrongs
• The 'Public Life' of Photographs
• Exhibitions & Events, January-April ; May-August ; June-August 2013
• Exhibitions & Events, January-April ; June-August 2014
• Phil Bergerson : Emblems and Remnants of the American Dream
• Cue Depth
• Exhibitions & Events, May-June ; Sept-December 2014
• Curious Anarchy : The Photographic Collection of Maia-Mari Sutnik
• Remembering The Real Winnie : The World's Most Famous Bear Turns 100
• Exhibitions & Events, May-June 2015
• Photography Historians: A New Generation?
• All That Glitters : Carole Tanenbaum Vintage Collection Jewelry Benefit
• Exhibitions & Events, January-April ; May-August 2016
• Exhibitions & Events, January-April ; May-August 2017
• Exhibitions & Events, January-April ; May-August ; Sept-December 2019
• Exhibitions & Events - January-April, 2020

File contains books published in conjunction with exhibitions held in the Ryerson Image Centre.The Image Centre.

Stephen Waddell was the winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Photography Award. An exhibition of his work was curated by Gaelle Morel and was shown in the Ryerson Image Centre from May 1 - August 9, 2020.

Dana Claxton was the winner of the 2021 Scotiabank Photography Award. An exhibition of his work was curated by Gaelle Morel and was shown in the Ryerson Image Centre from April 28 - August 7, 2021.

The Art of the Archive exhibit that ran September 29, 2012 to December 22, 2012. The exhibit contained works by current students and alumni from the Image Arts program. Included are works by Alyssa Bistonath, Kyle Brohman, Julia Callon, Jenna Edwards, Tara Ernst, Daniel Froidevaux, Elisa Julia Gilmour, Ben Lenzner, Marc Losier, Eugen Sakhnenko, Kate Tarini, and Andrew Williamson.

"Soon we were enroute again..." the Margaret Corry Albums (1947-1963) was an exhibit mounted by the students in the Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management program with the Margaret Corry photograph albums held by the Royal Ontario Museum, courtesy of the Family Camera Network. The exhibit ran January 24 - April 18, 2018.

"The Optics of Science - Early Western Stereographs from the Dr. Martin J Bass and and Gail Silverman Bass collection" was an exhibit mounted by the students in the Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management program. The Optics of Science presented late 19th and early 20th century stereographic cards and supplementary material from the Bass Collection, part of The Image Centre’s holdings. "The exhibition and accompanying publication focus on representations of Western science and related knowledge at a time of unprecedented and rapid industrial, social, and geographical change. Comprising medical, clinical, anthropological, astronomical, and spirit photographs, the selection highlights the technical and historical intricacies associated with looking at images often entangled with colonial legacies" (https://theimagecentre.ca/exhibition/optics-of-science) The exhibit ran September 14 - October 22, 2022.

"Kodak Canada - the early years (1899-1939) was an exhibit mounted by the students in the Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management program. Drawing from the Ryesron University Library Special Collections Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection, the exhibit explored the development of the Kodak empire in Canada in the first half of the 20th century. The exhibit ran January 23 - February 24, 2019.

File contains materials relating to RIC symposiums, lecutures and conferences, including :

Symposiums :
Edward Burtynsky : Oil Symposium (2011)
About Photographic Collections : Defintions, Descriptions, Access (January 19 - January 21, 2012) ;
Berenic Abbott : Photographs (2012) ;
The 'Public Life' of Photographs (May 9-11, 2013)

File contains newsletters emailed to mailing list. Newsletter contains information about events, exhibitions, and general gallery information. Initially called News and Events, it changed its name to Events and Exhibitions, and finally What's On - Events and Exhibitions.

File contains copies of books authored/published by the Ryerson Image Centre.

Book originally published "La naissance de l'idee de photographie" by Francois Brunet. It was translated by Shane B. Lillis and published by the Ryerson Image Centre in 2019.

The 2 reports are recommendation reports on the proposal for restructuring the Image Arts staff and facility created for the restructuring committee. The first report contains recommendations given from the support staff and the second report contains recommendations from the committee itself.

File contains a proposal for "The Structure of the Photography Major" by Susan Dobson.

A comparative analysis of the curriculum of Ryerson Polytechnic University's Bachelor of Applied Arts degree in Film and Photography, and the University of Guelph's Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art.

A proposal for strategic changes to the administrative structure of Image Arts with minor streamlining of technical staff.

File contains textual records related to H. Westerblom. File includes sale listings, information booklets, purchase orders, memorandums, correspondence, policies, meeting minutes, and agendas.

File contains textual records of class materials for PTZ 021 Theory of Photographic Systems when taught by H. Westerblom. File includes a photographs of students, exams, class lists, projects, reports, and lesson materials.

Book published in conjunction with the Exhibition "Dispatch: War Photographs in Print, 1854-2008". The exhibition was curated by Dr. Thierry Gervais and was on view in the RIC from September 17 - December 7, 2014.