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Tonight, he will be presented the award at a ceremony in New York City. Douglas works in various media including video, installation and photography. Here, Lightbox visits highlights of three projects from the artist’s prolific photographic endeavors._more What is real? What is unreal? In a world where reality and history can be recreated and manipulated to appear authentic in a photograph, it is imperative that we ask these questions. We, as a society inundated with visual culture, are trained to ponder the truth and meaning behind what we see—but what if a photograph was created to question reality? To question history? Stan Douglas creates images that catalyze critical analysis and force their viewers to revisit the scenes they depict. Douglas, in creating new images of scenes in history, ponders the truth within the medium of photography and the sociological issues that lie in the passages and stories illustrated in his photographs. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Douglas approaches each image with epic, Hollywood-level production—tapping into his history as a maker of films and video. Demanding the most active viewer who questions, challenges and investigates all that he or she sees, each image is created to excruciating detail.  A 3-dimentional rendering Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, 2008. Courtesy the artist In producing _Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971_, 2008 (slide #4), Douglas built a set to recreate a scene of the actual intersection in Vancouver. The placement of the actors in the image was pre-envisioned in three-dimensional renderings to anticipate the actual photograph. Not one detail was left unnoticed—down to the products in the dressings of the windows and the scraps of paper that lie on the streets. The mural-sized image, which was composited from 50 different images from the same shoot, is one of four in his series _Crowds & Riots_. All the images in the series are large scale tableaux depicting vignettes from Vancouver’s history—reflecting on matters of the police, class and social order.  Gjon Mili / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images In his series, _Midcentury Studio_, Douglas took on the identity of a photojournalist working between 1945 to 1951 (a selection of this work is represented by slides #6 – #9 in the gallery above). Inspired by imagery from this time, Douglas created images that discuss the _decisive moment_ in photography—as Henri Cartier-Bresson explained, the exact moment that the photographer makes the photograph by firing the shutter of the camera—that very moment which is creative. Unfolding on Cartier-Bresson’s expression, Douglas constructed and carefully created these scenes to capture this experience and illustrate the scrupulous amount of information and action that lies in each frame of a photograph. In _Dancer II, 1950_, 2010, Douglas created an image similar to one from our own archive [shot by famed photographer Gjon Mili for LIFE Magazine](http://life.time.com/photographers/its-about-time-gjon-milis-stroboscopic-portraits). In Douglas’s most recent series, _Disco Angola_, most recently shown at [David Zwirner](http://www.davidzwirner.com/) Gallery in New York City in April, he once again approaches the identity of a photojournalist. This time, he is one who travels between New York City and Angola in the 1970s. Each image in the series utilizes the nature of body language as insight into the historical moment—from the pensive waiting of the Portugese colonialist awaiting evcuation (_Exodus, 1975_, 2012), to the interracial-intercultural array of dancing people (_Club Versailles, 1974_, 2012), to the group of rebel fighters performing capoeira, the Brazilian martial art that originated in Angola (_Capoeira, 1974, 2012_). Disco, a source of escapism for New Yorkers from the nearly bankrupt city at the time, traces its roots to Africa. Connecting these two seemingly disparate places, separated by thousands of miles of ocean and cultural-political borders, Douglas traces subtle parallels between New York’s struggles and the emerging Angolan liberation fight for independence from Portugal—one which would ultimately lead to a decades-long civil war. _Douglas’s series_ Midcentury Studio _is currently on view at_ [_Victoria Miro Gallery_](http://www.victoria-miro.com/) _in London through May 26, 2012\. More information about the Infinity Awards can be found_ [here](http://www.icp.org/support-icp/infinity-awards)_._  Powell Street Grounds, 28 January 1912, 2008, from the series Crowds & Riots Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  Ballantyne Pier, 18 June 1935, 2008, from the series Crowds & Riots Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  Hastings Park, 16 July 1955, 2008, from the series Crowds & Riots Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, 2008, from the series Crowds & Riots Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  Hockey Fight, 1951, 2010, from the series Midcentury Studio Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  Demobilization Suit, 1945, 2010, from the series Midcentury Studio Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  From left: Flame, 1947, 2010, Rings, 1947, 2010, and Smoke, 1947, 2010, from the series Midcentury Studio Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York (3)  Dancer II, 1950, 2010, from the series Midcentury Studio Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  Exodus, 1975, 2012, from the series Disco Angola Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  Club Versailles, 1974, 2012, from the series Disco Angola Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  Coat Check, 1974, 2012, from the series Disco Angola Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  Checkpoint, 1975, 2012, from the series Disco Angola Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  Capoeira, 1974, 2012, from the series Disco Angola Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York  A Luta Continua, 1974, 2012, from the series Disco Angola Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3788246/stan-douglas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3788246/stan-douglas/"},"headline":"Stan Douglas Named the Recipient of ICP's Infinity Award for Art","datePublished":"2012-05-02T09:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:41:06.446Z","description":"Stan Douglas has been named the recipient of the prestigious Infinity Award for Art by the International Center of Photography, which will be presented tonight. 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