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[Winter 2006-2007]

Portfolios : DOYON-RIVEST, MIKE YUHASZ, FRANK BREUER.
Focus : Le World Press Photo ou le photojournalisme au Salon.
Reviews : Contemporary African Photography, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Nicolas Baier, Pascal Grandmaison , Alone, Curated by Penny Cousineau-Levine, Toni Hafkenschied, Douglas Gordon.
Readings : Documentary Now!
Authors : Jacques Doyon, Julie Lavigne, John K. Grande, Vincent Lavoie, Dominique Fontaine, Bruno Chalifour, Stéphane Baillargeon, Charles Guilbert, Gary Michael Dault, Sylvain Campeau, Ariane Noël de Tilly, Vincent Bonin.

Advertising Culture

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Winter 2006-2007] by Jacques Doyon It is not surprising that the world of advertising has become an object of investigation and aesthetic appropriation for contemporary artists. Advertising has an important place in Western culture. It is omnipresent in the urban environment, and it literally inundates the communications media, in which it rivals news, entertainment, and […]

Doyon-Rivest, Thanks for being there – Julie Lavigne, Les produits dérivés de la firme Doyon-Rivest, publicité, multiple ou ready-made ?

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Portfolios
Authors: Julie Lavigne | Artists: Mathieu Doyon, Simon Rivest

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Since they created their Doyon-Rivest “corporate” identity in 2000, artists Mathieu Doyon and Simon Rivest have been exploring the interrelationships between advertising and art, mimicking methods of advertising in order […]

Mike Yuhasz, Great north development group – John K. Grande, The World According to Mike Yuhasz…The Development Mystique

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Portfolios
Authors: John K. Grande | Artists: Mike Yuhasz

[Winter 2006-2007] Multidisciplinary artist Mike Yuhasz’s Great North Development Group project explores the way we conceive of and relate to land in today’s complex world. Yuhasz’s confected, prearranged, set-up, and situational photographic and informational material carries contradictory and duplicitous messages about the consumer. The project is as much about our potential collective perception, understanding, and […]

Frank Breuer, Warehouses and logos – Gary Michael Dault, Objecthood and presentness, the photographs of Frank Breuer

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Portfolios
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Frank Breuer

[Winter 2006-2007] Cologne-based photographer Frank Breuer is a virtuoso of profuse emptiness. His photographs of the bleak but strangely beautiful warehouses and of the logo-bearing, corporate, pylon-like signs that often stand nearby seem largely emptied of discursive, annotative meaning. Because both the warehouses and the emptied sign-structures that are his subject offer no internal articulation, […]

Le World Press Photo ou le photojournalisme au Salon – Vincent Lavoie

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Essays
Authors: Vincent Lavoie | Artists: George Merillon

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract The World Press Photo grand prize, one of the most important distinctions awarded in the photojournalism field, has been handed out every year since 1955 to the person who makes […]

Snap Judgments, New Positions in Contemporary African Photography – Dominique Fontaine

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Dominique Fontaine | Artists: Nontsikelelo “lolo” Vekelo, Tracey Rose, Yto Barrada

[Winter 2006-2007] Cet article a été à l’origine uniquement publié en anglais. Vous pouvez le lire en consultant la version anglaise de cette page. International Center of Photography, New York du 15 mars au 28 mai 2006

Les Rencontres d’Arles, Raymond Depardon et ses invités – Bruno Chalifour

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Bruno Chalifour | Artists: David Goldblatt, Philippe Chancel, Raymond Depardon, Sophie Ristelhueber

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Arles du 4 juillet au 17 septembre 2006

Nicolas Baier – Stéphane Baillargeon

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Stéphane Baillargeon | Artists: Nicolas Baier

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie René Blouin du 1er avril au 6 mai 2006

Pascal Grandmaison – Charles Guilbert

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Pascal Grandmaison

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal du 27 mai au 9 octobre 2006

Alone, Curated by Penny Cousineau-Levine – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Jennifer Campbell, Kate Greenslade, Lori Newdick, Mackenzie Stroh, Marisa Portolese

[Winter 2006-2007] Curated by Penny Cousineau-Levine Gallery 44 and Gallery TPW, Toronto September 14 – October 28, 2006 Loneliness, existential or otherwise, has been the informing condition of twentieth-century society, and it looks as if it will continue to be so in the twenty-first century. Penny Cousineau-Levine’s recent two-gallery exhibition, Alone, was a vivid, surprising, […]

Un magazine qui se consacre à la présentation et à l’analyse des pratiques de la photographie en lien à l’art contemporain, aux nouvelles technologies de l’image et aux enjeux actuels de la culture.

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