David Kaufman’s new architectural photographs illuminate the rich visual texture of Toronto’s disappearing heritage streetscapes in neighbourhoods undergoing rapid redevelopment. Inspired by the 1930 Edward Hopper painting of the same name, Early Sunday Morning features highly detailed, large scale images of handsome brick buildings, some dating back to the 1880s, whose intricate masonry and richly coloured facades are revealed by morning sunlight. The images draw attention to commercial structures in older, once less affluent parts of the city near the downtown core that are threatened by gentrification and the condo building boom. The exhibition is a photographic “cri de coeur” for what remains of Toronto’s unheralded early buildings and a celebration of a century-old era in the city’s architecture.

(Part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival.)

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