Photographic memories

You don't have to be Miley Cyrus (or her Vanity Fair-pic-controversy comrade Annie Leibovitz) to know that photos still have power in our image-flooded world. That power will be in full force today as the Contact Photography Festival kicks off with over 200 exhibitions. Toronto's fest is the largest worldwide. Here, Contact director Bonnie Rubenstein frames art celebs and photo philosophy for Leah Sandals.

Q The theme for this year's Contact is "Between Memory and History." What does that mean? A Well, memory is something that's in our minds, whereas history is a documented fact. One can say a photograph is both: It represents things that we store in our minds and it represents history -- events outside of our minds -- simultaneously.

Q How does this year's primary exhibition, From the Epic to the Everyday, reflect that?

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