Ghost Signs of Hamilton

Currently showing at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Ghost Signs of Hamilton is a modest photographic exhibition documenting some of Hamilton’s ghost signs (also known as ghost ads). These sometimes vast, painted murals were once ubiquitous in many industrialized cities. Most have faded with time, become obscured or completely hidden by adjacent construction, or been lost completely through demolition. Very occasionally they reappear, if only briefly.

Here’s Chris DeWolf on some of Montreal’s ghost ads.

- posted Dec 30, 10:45 AM in

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