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George Legrady

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George Legrady
George Legrady, (born in 1950) is currently a member of the faculty in digital media and directs the Experimental Visualization Lab in the Media Arts & Technology graduate program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, his family resettled to Montreal, Canada in his childhood during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He attended French elementary schools where he was trained in classical music. Played in various rock bands in the mid-1960s such as the Mike Jones Group, the Haunted, and The Urge. He studied photography at Loyola College with Charles Gagnon and John Max in the late 1960s.

He was invited to document the James Bay Cree coastal communities in northern Quebec in the early 1970s resulting in a photographic documentary of over 2800 photographs of the Cree way-of-life as they were organizing to negotiate to government over land rights due to the construction of the major James Bay Hydro-Electric project on traditional Cree hunting lands.

Received his MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1976. Resided in London, Ontario between 1977-1981 during which time he was Professor of Photography in the Art Department at the University of Western Ontario. While in London, he was on the board of the Forest City Gallery. He curated the exhibition The Mask of Objectivity in 1981 for the McIntosh Gallery, Western University, London, Ontario. In 1984 George presented a solo exhibition at the Embassy Cultural House of his black & white photographs title Stock Footage. His work was simultanously shown in a public installation at a construction site on Dundas Street near Wellington St. in London, installed by Ron Benner. 

George Legrady was an early adopter and pioneer in integrating digital processing with photography. For this work he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.  

Please visit George's website for more information.
 
Recent projects:
  • https://www.mat.ucsb.edu/g.legrady/glWeb/projects.html
  • The Guggenheim CV page: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/george-legrady/
  • The Daniel Langlois website that has an interactive catalog of my retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography: https://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=510

Links to the James Bay Cree 1973 project: 
  • A recent Zoom discussion (September 17, 2020) with Cree author and curator Paul Seesequasis about his book “Blanket Toss Under the Midnight Sun”.
  • Cluster of 3 x 3 groupings of George's photographs from the Cree photo documentary.
  • Diptychs of the Cree documentary photos.
  • A simulated video walk-thru if the images would be exhibited in a museum space.
  • The description of the exhibition.
  • Hyperallergic Art Journal review of the Cree project.
 
A sampling of videos taken by Andres Burbano and the artist during his 2012 and 2014 return trip to James Bay to present the photographs to the communities: 
  • http://tango.mat.ucsb.edu/jamesbay/videos/2012.html
  • http://tango.mat.ucsb.edu/jamesbay/videos/2014.html
 
 Online interviews: 
  • https://www.mascontext.com/issues/7-information-fall-10/making-visible-the-invisible/
  • https://dahj.org/article/in-conversation-with-george-legrady
  • https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/8933/an-anecdoted-archive-from-the-cold-war
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EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen & Michelle Wilson. 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the Mentorship program established by the Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and faculty of Arts & Humanities at Western University. 
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Thank you to our partners

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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located in London, Ontario, Canada on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial. 

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