File contains about 600 colour slides taken during the exhibition held in the Image Arts building during the Canadian Perspectives Conference on Canadian photography, as well as images of artwork by Canadian photographers presenting and discussed during the conference. Artists include: Marion P. Bancroft, Marguerite Bell, Robert Bourdeau, Randy Bradley, Jim Breukelman, David Bruce, Lynn Cohen, Share Corsaut, William Cupit, Charles Gagnon, Tom GIbson, Peter Gross, Thaddeus Hollowina, Stephen Homer, Tom Knott, Clayton Lewis, David MacMIllan, L. McClair, Dale Pickering, Tim Porter, Tom Robertson, Michael Semak, Ken Straiton, John Wertscheck, Gabor Szilasi, Ronnie Tessler, Robert Title, and Jim Tomlinson.

File consists of audio recordings of a symposium on the topic of German documentary and portrait photographer August Sander, held in the Image Arts Department at Ryerson University in 1982. Speakers include: central European historian István Deák; curator Ute Eskildsen; photographer, theorist and critic Alan Sekula; and art critic Rosalind Krauss.

File contains audio recordings of a symposium on photographic theory presented by American artist Hollis Frampton and conceptual artist Victor Burgin. The two day event was hosted by the Image Arts Department at Ryerson University and includes a discussion session.