Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS, Recent issues | Recent Issues
[Spring-Summer 2017]
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.
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Alain Lefort, Denis Farley, Jocelyn Philibert
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 […]
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Portfolios
Artists: Alain Lefort, Denis Farley, Jocelyn Philibert
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 […]
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Portfolios
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Jocelyn Philibert
[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 […]
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Portfolios
Authors: Francine Paul | Artists: Alain Lefort
[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 […]
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Portfolios
Authors: Daniel Fiset | Artists: Denis Farley
[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 […]
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Essays
Authors: Jill Glessing
[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 […]
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Josef Sudek
[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 […]
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Essays
Authors: Colette Tougas | Artists: Angela Grauerholz
June 30, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — 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 by thirty female photographers, most of them Canadian, painted a strong and true portrait…
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Philippe Guillaume | Artists: Robert Mapplethorpe
June 25, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — 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 a borrowed Polaroid camera…
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Erika Nimis
June 23, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jacynthe Carrier
June 18, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: James Welling
June 16, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — This exhibition presented a selection of work from Welling’s early days in the 1970s and from recent production. The artist’s principal interests lie in the area of photographic materiality and some of its attendant themes – colour, technologies, and abstraction – and to the social relations inherent in the production and circulation of photographs…
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri | Artists: Leila Alaoui
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.
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Fiona Annis
June 9, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — 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, and Binary Stars: A Pictorial Atlas, 1992…
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vidal | Artists: Matthieu Brouillard
June 2, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Manon Labrecque
May 26, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Book Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim
[Spring-Summer 2017] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris Photo, Offprint et Polycopies par Mona Hakim (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this article
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault
May 21, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Interviews
Authors: Carol Payne, Luce Lebart
May 19, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — 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 and most esteemed institutions devoted to photography in the world…