A series of black and white photographs taken by third year Photographic Arts students, arranged and published in a book printed by students from the Graphic Arts Program.

File contains a curriculum review proposal for the photographic arts program.

File contains the documentation for the degree proposal in Photographic Arts. It includes memorandums, proposals, and appendices.

File contains materials from Photographic Perspectives and Kodak Chair Lecture Series. It includes pamphlets, posters, press releases, listings, invitations, and flyers.

File contains photographs related to the School of Image Arts.

File contains images of various faculty and staff from the Photographic Arts and Image Arts programs. Included are 2 framed portraits - one of Reginald Soame and the other of Geoffrey M. Bullock.

File contains various issues of the Photo Arts News, a course union project.

File documents the initiation of the first Canadian student chapter of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers at Ryerson.

File contains various volumes of the newsletter of the School of Image Arts, imagearts.ca.

File contains various student handbooks from the School of Image Arts. File also contains promotion regulations, prerequisite schedules, manuals, and the technical operations handbook.

File contains various reels containing student projects assigned by Elvino Sauro.

File contains awards presentation materials from the School of Image Arts. Included are programs and invitations.

An incomplete boxed set of photo postcards put together by Peter Higdon, Curatorial Manager, School of Image Arts, for Ryerson's fiftieth anniversary celebrations. The postcards are reproductions of original prints in the fine art photography print collection housed in the Mira Godard Study Centre in the School of Image Arts. A complete description of the collection and its role in Image Arts is provided on the first postcard in the box.

File contains floor plans for the Photographic Arts Centre, later called the School of Image Arts, at 122 Bond Street, Toronto.

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

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

The file contains four posters of RIC exhibits.

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

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

File contains textual records of class materials for SPT 011 Still Photograph Studies. File includes photographs of students, exams, readings, projects, reports, and lesson materials.

File contains a framed poster advertising the Ryerson Film and Photography department's open house that took place on May 7-9, 1982. It also contains 3 copies of an oversize poster advertising another open house.

Contains a School of Image Arts graduating class yearbook (spiral bound) from 2009

Ryerson Gallery was renamed IMA Gallery in 2010. This was due to the construction of the new Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre (Image Arts Building).

This file contains various posters from the former RPI Film and Photography Resource Centre: Magali Desbazeille, "the grass is always greener on the other side" (Ryerson Gallery exhibition, February 2001); "MS III" Portfolio Catalogue (Joint Project third year media studies program, Photographic Arts and Graphic Arts Management, Winter 1973); "ryerson: a community of photographers (Royal Ontario Museum exhibition catalogue, 1974); Arnaud Dejeammes (Ryerson Gallery exhibition, March 2002); "them(selves)" (Sylvie Blocher video installation, 1998); Lightfolio: Ryerson Film and Photography Student Publication (Issue 1: December, 1981); Lightfolio: Ryerson Film and Photography Student Publication (Issue 2: December, 1982); Ryerson One, School of Journalism Publication (Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1970); Ryersonia (Winter '72); Ryersonia ('73) Two posters advertising exhibitions of John Solowski computer graphics drawings held in the Film and Photography Department Gallery November 18-30 and December 4-14

File contains two t-shirts from the photographic arts course. One is a large yellow t-shirt with “The Medium Is The Message” is stamped on the front. The other is a promotional t-shirt for the Photographic Arts course, instructional media. X-large, white with red “Instructional Media” lettering on back and gold “Ryerson” on the front.

File contains a catalogue of the video installation them(selves) by Sylvie Blocher. The residency of Sylvie Blocher and the exhibition was a collaboration with the School of Image Arts at Ryerson, the Art Gallery of York University, and the Association française d'action artistique.

This little booklet was produced by the graduating students in the Motion Picture Studies Option in Photographic Arts in 1972. This was the very first class to graduate in a film option at Ryerson. It was, at the time, a three-year Diploma Option. The Graphic Arts Department published the booklet.

File contains photographs of the members of the Film and Photography (now Image Arts) Advisory Committee in the mid-1980s, including famed film producer and director, Norman Jewison. Included are files on who is who and a brief description of Norman Jewison.

This file contains 8 videocassettes: Filmbuilding - Contemporary Case Studies ; Design/Film Practice ; Technology as Technology ; Sunrise ; Deutelbaum/Broken Lance Excerpt ; Historical Case Studies ; End/Q&A Historical Cases - Stylistics in Cinema Design ; Stylistics in Film Design (contd.) - Planning for Next year.

File contains two copies of a Function zine.

File contains promotional material created to advertise FUNCTION magazine. Included are notices about the magazine launch, fundraising posters. etc.

File contains materials from the Toronto Photography Festival such as posters and book.

File contains the Film and Photography Departmental Council's meeting minutes and agendas.

File contains various posters for the School of Image Arts' Print Sale and Exhibit.

File contains posters advertising Ryerson's photography program workshops held in P.E.I., Spain, France, and Portugal.

File contains materials from the 2003 Images Festival including a leaflet and a program book.

File contains:
Program Evaluation Process c1980
Program Assessment Committee Report Sept. 1982
Proposal for Three Programs to replace Dept. of Film & Photography Oct. 17, 1983
PREP - Photographic Arts c1982
Academic Quality Element 1989-90
Societal Need Element 1989-90
Finanical Viability Element Jan. 31, 1992

File contains slides of various works displayed at a design exhibit.

File contains correspondence and reports between the School of Image Arts and the Physical Plant department.

File contains observations and feedback on the Film Studies program.

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 a blank student project guideline questionnaire.

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

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

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 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 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.

File contains the MPC 012 Technology Studies Handbook and a paper on Photographic Film Speeds by Professor Compton.

Lightfolio, Issue 1 (December 1981) and Issue 2 (March, 1982). A Ryerson Film and Photography Student Publication.

Promotional material describing the different diploma and degree programs offered by the Film and Photography department, with information about the department and faculty members, removed from the documentation files.

File contains various editions of "The Alternative", the newsletter that was to be a permanent forum to discuss feminist issues.

1 16mm film, 2 VHS cassettes and one copy on DVD. 1 Ryerson News Reel. 2 Riot '63 Auditions.

Includes artists' statements.

File contains the Photographic Arts Department Academic Planning Report of 1975.

File contains the journal created by the 1992 MAC033 class to provide a forum for critical writing, dialogue, and debate about issues of concern to the students in the Photo Arts Department.

File contains 10 b&w composite photographs of the graduating classes for Photographic Arts. One of the the photographs (class of 1956) is framed.

File contains photographs of various students from the Photographic Arts and Image Arts programs.

Film festival materials for 2nd and 3rd year students.

File contains job postings sent by the Human Resources department.

File contains materials related to the Photographic Arts Centre Opening. It includes programs and silk screen display panels.

File contains a flyer on '36 Short Films' that details its creation and cast.

File contains course outlines from the School of Image Arts.

File contains photographic negatives and contact sheets of Geoffrey Bullock.

File contains one of the last Standard Studio Tungsten Lamps used in sound-stage of the School of Image Arts before the conversion to tungsten halogen lamps. This lamp is either a tungsten argon lamp or a tungsten vacuum lamp and had a power of 2,000 watts. These old lamps suffered from vapourization of the tungsten filament which, as evidenced on this lamp, left a dark deposit on the inside of the glass envelope, thus reducing the brightness over time. This lamp and accompanying historical information was provided by Professor Elvino Sauro of the School of Image Arts.

Published jointly with Graphic Communications Management until 2002/03. An issue was not published for 2001/02. Issues 1998/99 - 2000/01 co-arranged with GCM: RG 56.21.

File contains assignments, tests, and exams from the School of Image Arts.

File contains correspondence and a report on the New Media Certificate program.

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

"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 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.

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).

"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.

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

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.

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 photographs, agendas, correspondence and other materials relating to the week long workshops for the Canadian Space Agency.Workshops were subcontracted to RTA through T.V. Ontario - who were planning on making a documentary from space footage. Workshops took place from December 8 - 11, 1992.

File contains emails promoting the New Media Lecture Series, the result of a partnership with the School of Image Arts and the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre.

File contains promotional materials advertising student run lecture series, and various seminars and conferences held and sponsered by the School of Image Arts.

File contains a certificate and a poster for the Kodak class image competition. The certificate was awarded for first prize achievement in the photo-journalism category. The poster is advertising the exhibition of the winner and honourable mention photographs in the black and white student print competition.

File contains an invitation to the official opening of the School of Image Arts on March 21, 2012 and a 1 page self-guided tour info sheet.

Includes exhibition catalogue and floor plan of gallery.

File contains a photograph and correspondence from the reunion of the 1972 class of Photo Arts.

File contains the fifth book from the read and do series, "Roland La Feet in Disguise of a Doodled Clue".

Festival outline from October 24, 1967 issue of Eyeopener.

File contains materials from Public Supply. "Public Supply" is a piece in which the audience, by telephone,supplies the sound material. The performace was broadcast on CJRT on March 7 and was organized by Max Neuhaus.

Full title of paper is "A Short Statement on Light and It's Creative Use" by Donald Dickinson.The paper was presented at a seminar in the Humanities, February 10, 1967.

File contains materials from the "The New Media" program including course outlines, notes, instructor lists, applications, statements, and correspondence.

File contains blank forms and letterheads from the school of image arts.

Ben Caza donated 15 cans of student film assignments to the Archives. A selection was made from these films based on the following criteria:

• indoor/outdoor footage of Ryerson;
• work of student who was former employee or has received recognition in their career;
• work showed Ben Caza;

• work was excellent example of narrative or technique.

  Can A. 5 films dealing with humour, the RPI library and longer narratives. The film "Johnny" deals with the First World War.
  Can B. 5 films dealing with Ryerson street scenes and the library. One humourous film has two "Frantic" members in it. The film, 'Alien' was done by a former RPI staff member, Chris Bell.
  Can C. 4 films dealing with Ryerson street scenes and the Library. One film stars Ben Caza. A longer documentary shows a maple syrup farm and the Kitchener-Waterloo market.

File contains an invitation to the gala party and preview of Maximum Exposure '98 in celebration of the 50th birthday of the School of Image Arts Film / Photography / New Media.

File contains an information booklet on the history of the School of Image Arts for Ryerson's 50th anniversary.

File contains a promotional t-shirt for the Photographic Arts course, instructional media. X-large, white with red “Instructional Media” lettering on back and gold “Ryerson” on the front.

An early example of a 1/2" reel-to-reel videotape. This tape would have been used in a unit called a "Porta Pack" by the School of Image Arts. It was a heavy black and white video recording unit whereby one held the camera in one hand to shoot pictures while the recording unit hung from a shoulder strap.The videotape and accompanying historical information was provided by Elvino Sauro, retired faculty member, School of Image Arts.

This file contains textual records related to The International Academic Congress "Filmbuilding.99 - Devices and Delicacies of Film Design", which was hosted at Ryerson. Includes conference program, periodicals, posters, grant applications, organization committee meeting minutes, promotional materials, correspondence,

This file contains on data compact disc, featuring a collection of film essays by Charles Tashiro, Marshall Deutelbaum, Christopher Williams, Kay Armatage, Linda Lewis, Lily Alexander, Ian Chodikoff, and Bruce Elder.

Contents include a flyer and an article on the "Reunion" event celebrating 35 years since the electronic sight and sound chess game of 1968 between two artists Marcel Duchamp and John Cage.

File contains the materials for a revised program proposal for the Film and Photography Department. File includes drafts, notes, correspondence, meeting minutes, and a proposal.