Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre

Snapshot: A History of Photography

Exhibition dates: December 21 2019 - June 20 2020
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday 10:00-17:00, Saturday 12:00-17:00
Reception: January 31, 19:00

Popular photography and Medicine Hat have grown side by side. Witness how the technologies of film and camera have changed and how Medicine Hat’s photographers have used them to document our community.

The first commercial cameras came on the market in the 1880s, about the same time that the first train crossed the South Saskatchewan River into a town of tents, Medicine Hat. Explore the technological, artistic, and social changes of photography as it developed alongside the story of this community through changing technology and the lens of photographers within the region. From daguerreotypes to digital, we have been recording the people, places, and activities of the world around us. Capture glimpses of the evolution of photography through a Medicine Hat lens in Snapshot: A History of Photography.

This exhibition is wheelchair accessible.
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401 First St SE,
Medicine Hat, AB T1A 8W2
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