Ruth-Marion Baruch in Context:
A Curators Perspective

Julian Cox @ The Breman

Julian Cox, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, the Art Gallery of Ontario discussed Ruth-Marion Baruch and her unique place in photo history and curating her work into the 2017 exhibition: The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll. Cox also discussed his recent exhibition, Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows, which originated at the Art Gallery of Ontario and is now scheduled for multiple sites in Europe.

This event was in collaboration with The Breman, which is currently exhibiting Ruth-Marion Baruch – Retrospective, until September 1, 2024.

Julian Cox has been at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada, since 2018. Previously he was the founding curator of photography and chief curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2010-2017. Prior to that Cox was curator of photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 2005-2010.

Cox is co-author of the critically acclaimed publication: Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (2003), the first catalogue raisonné produced on the work of a photographer. He is the author of many scholarly articles and books. His most recent publications are:- KAWS: FAMILY (2023); Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows (2022) and Matthew Wong: Blue View (2021). Some of his titles dedicated to photography include: Harry Callahan: Eleanor (2007); Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 (2008); and Danny Lyon: Message to the Future (2016).

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