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Images premières : mutations d'une icône nationale
First images: alterations of a national icon
From november 10 2004 to january 22 2005
Photography
On 7 November 1885, Alexander Ross photographed the ceremony of the placing of the last clamp of the Canadian Pacific railway. This photo became a true national icon, represneting the principle of Canada being "unboltable". The exhibit shows some fifty examples of different symbolic derivatives -paintings, posters, caricatures, reconstitutions, medals...-done between 1885 and 1995, bearing the effigy of the famous photograph.
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