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1985. Image-Worlds – Hélène Samson

Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Hélène Samson

[Fall 2025] 1985. Image-Worlds by Hélène Samson VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal 27.03.2025 — 21.06.2025 [EXCERPT] The VOX centre celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2025. This seemed a good opportunity to devote an exhibition to the decade in which it was born. More than seventy photographic and video works by thirty artists, along with […]

Andrea Kunard, La photographie au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada — Hélène Samson

Ciel variable 126 – TRAJECTORIES | Entrevues
Authors: Hélène Samson

[Summer 2024] by Hélène Samson [EXCERPT] The current photography collection at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) was built from various sources. The original international collection was established by curator James Borcoman in 1967. After the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) closed, in 2009, the NGC incorporated its collection, which included the Still Photography […]

Hélène Samson, Exhibiting Notman – Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Interviews
Authors: Hélène Samson, Jacques Doyon | Artists: William Notman

March 18, 2020 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — Hélène Samson has been the curator of the photography collection at the McCord Museum since 2006. She is interested in collecting vernacular Canadian photographs and updating nineteenth-century photographic archives…

Photography. Crisis of History – Hélène Samson

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews
Authors: Hélène Samson, Joan Fontcuberta

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Photography. Crisis of History sous la direction de Joan Fontcuberta, Barcelone, Actar, 2004, 253 p.

FAKING DEATH Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination – Hélène Samson

Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Book Reviews
Authors: Hélène Samson

[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Penny Cousineau-Levine McGill-Queen’s University Press Montréal/Kingston 2003