Melvin Charney – Ciel variable Magazine

Melvin Charney, UN DICTIONNAIRE… série 100 : New York, 9/11/2001 – Anne Bénichou, Des ruines et des corps pour penser le monde, un entretien avec Melvin Charney

Ciel variable 68 – MEMORIES OF THE DISASTER | Portfolios
Authors: Anne Bénichou | Artists: Melvin Charney

[Summer 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract In the early 1970s, Melvin Charney began a work in progress, UN DICTIONNAIRE…, a collection of press-agency photographs, published in newspapers, in which buildings and cities involved in current events […]

Melvin Charney – Danielle Schwartz

Ciel variable 60 - VISION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Danielle Schwartz | Artists: Melvin Charney

[Spring 2003] Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal February 22 to April 28, 2002 Even in his earliest photographs, which he shot as a teen – portraits of alleyways, façades, and streets – Melvin Charney, the Montreal-based architect-painter-photographer-intellectual, was examining the relationship between local and international vernacular architecture and daily life. As this show reveals, the […]

Anne Bénichou – Renouer avec l’esthétique de l’archive photographique

Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Essays
Authors: Anne Bénichou | Artists: Angela Grauerholz, Melvin Charney

[Fall 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Since the 1960s, a number of Western art practices have revived the æsthetic of the photographic archive as it was developed in the nineteenth century. Starting from the work of […]