Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

Metonymic Motifs

Editorial
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

Each series of images in this issue presents, in a way, work on a motif – a live view of the landscape, in the tradition of landscape painters. Capturing the infinite variations of trees, icebergs, or clouds under different conditions certainly testifies to an interest in nature, but perhaps even more in how it is […]

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TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

Portfolios
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

At first glance, the works presented here might seem to be simply about work on a motif. A more attentive look, however, shows that what is indicated here, in this focus on trees, or icebergs, or clouds, is the shaping of natural elements by human action on a landscape that has become an environment. Jocelyn […]

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Jocelyn Philibert, Arbres – Franck Michel, The Depths of the Landscape

Portfolios
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] by Franck Michel [Excerpt] For more than ten years, Jocelyn Philibert has been photographing trees at night. This near-obsession was triggered during a summer spent in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, on the bank of the St. Lawrence River. Having just acquired a small digital camera, he decided to go out and explore the vicinity of his […]

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Alain Lefort, Eidôlon – Francine Paul, Hunting for Landscapes in the Spring of Glacial Figures

Portfolios
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] by Francine Paul [Excerpt] Waters lands suns clouds And then all this fundamental freezing Ice and icebergs Floes and turrets Chorbacks and ropaks That the ancient Empedocles never spoke of Foulanges and snows Over there all over there1 — Jean Désy, Petite suite de poèmes nordiques Whereas Jean Désy’s poem echoes Nordic beauty […]

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Denis Farley, Espaces aériens – Daniel Fiset, Photographs Like Clouds

Portfolios
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] by Daniel Fiset [Excerpt] In the nineteenth century, sunlight held a prominent position in photography, and it became a favourite subject for numerous commentators and authors. For instance, Daguerre bragged of having “forced the sun to take pictures [for him],”1 Francis Wey published a history of the invention of the daguerreotype titled Comment […]

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Uprisings, Images Unleashed: An Archive of Resistance – Jill Glessing

Essays
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] by Jill Glessing [Excerpt] Resistance to oppression takes many forms. Antonio Gramsci, incarcerated during Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship, struggled to understand the workings of power. Developing his concept of hegemony, published later in Prison Notebooks, Gramsci proposed that power is always in flux and unstable, hence always vulnerable to popular contestation. Within this modern […]

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Josef Sudek, The World at My Window – Pierre Dessureault

Essays
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] by Pierre Dessureault [Excerpt] In the early 1920s, when Josef Sudek was becoming established as a photographer, Prague had emerged as a point of convergence for avant-garde movements from France, Germany, and Russia. After the dismantlement of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following the Great War, members of these movements were interested in rethinking art […]

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Elles Photographes, The Spirit of Photography – Colette Tougas

Essays
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] by Colette Tougas [Excerpt] From July 19, 2016, to February 19, 2017, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts mounted an exhibition titled She Photographs, described in the press release as a “feminine echo” of the Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective at the museum in autumn 2016. More than simply an echo, this presentation of works […]

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Robert Mapplethorpe – Philippe Guillaume

Exhibition Reviews
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] Focus Perfection Montreal Museum of Fine Arts September 10, 2016, to January 15, 2017 by Philippe Guillaume [Excerpt] The Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition Focus Perfection, which opened last fall at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, was a lavish retrospective dedicated to the controversial New York artist who took up photography in 1970 with […]

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La Biennale de Montréal – Érika Nimis

Exhibition Reviews
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] La Biennale de Montréal Le Grand Balcon Du 20 octobre 2016 au 14 janvier 2017 par Érika Nimis (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale throughout Canada until September 21, 2017, and online through our boutique.] Purchase this issue

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Jacynthe Carrier – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] brise glace soleil blanc Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran Du 9 novembre au 23 décembre 2016 par Sylvain Campeau (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale throughout Canada until September 21, 2017, and online through our boutique.] Purchase this issue

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James Welling – Stephen Horne

Exhibition Reviews
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] Chronology Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris January 25–March 2, 2017 by Philippe Guillaume [Excerpt] An initial impression on entering James Welling’s exhibition in the large space of the Galerie Marian Goodman in Paris is that this is a group exhibition. There are several bodies of work, apparently disparate. However, relying on the knowledge that […]

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Leila Alaoui – Claudia Polledri

Exhibition Reviews
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

June 20, 2017 [originally published in French in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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Fiona Annis – James D. Campbell

Exhibition Reviews
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] Les révolutions sidérales Plein Sud October 1–November 5, 2016 by James D. Campbell [Excerpt] In the photoworks in this exhibition, Fiona Annis dilated with poetic acuity on the clockwork of the heavens. She mined resources as varied and recondite as the first spectroscopic data on the trajectory of Halley’s Comet, recorded in 1910, […]

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Matthieu Brouillard – Jean-Pierre Vidal

Exhibition Reviews
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] L’essor VU PHOTO, Québec Du 21 octobre au 20 novembre 2016 par Jean-Pierre Vidal (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale throughout Canada until September 21, 2017, and online through our boutique.] Purchase this issue

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Manon Labrecque – Sylvain Campeau

Exhibition Reviews
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May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] L’Origine d’un mouvement Expression, centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe Du 27 août au 23 octobre 2016 par Sylvain Campeau (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale throughout Canada until September 21, 2017, and online through our boutique.] Purchase this issue

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Le livre photographique : un état des lieux – Mona Hakim

Book Reviews
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] Paris Photo, Offprint et Polycopies par Mona Hakim (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale throughout Canada until September 21, 2017, and online through our boutique.] Purchase this issue

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Sarker Protick et Katrin Koenning, Astres noirs – Louis Perreault

Book Reviews
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] Chose commune, Paris, 2016 168 pages, 91 photographies par Louis Perreault (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale throughout Canada until September 21, 2017, and online through our boutique.] Purchase this issue

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Luce Lebart, Canadian Photography Institute (CPI) – Carol Payne

Interviews
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS

May 22, 2017 by cielvariable

[Spring-Summer 2017] An interview by Carol Payne [Excerpt] In late 2016, Luce Lebart was appointed the first director of the Canadian Photography Institute at the National Gallery of Canada. For the previous five years, she had been director of collections and curator at the Société Française de Photographie (SFP) in Paris, one of the oldest […]

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