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Michel-Hardy Vallée, Focus on Quebec Photography – An interview by Charles Guilbert

Ciel variable 131 – COLLECTING | Entrevues, paroles
Authors: Charles Guilbert | Artists: Michel-Hardy Vallée

A web-based and educational project, Mise au point sur la photographie québécoise offers a rare—if not the only—history of the discipline as it has unfolded in Quebec since the first daguerreotype. One of its creator, Michel Hardy-Vallée, explains the choice of themes and monographic essays: “ We really wanted to foreground the issue of uses, which give access to an entire spectrum of relationships. Who uses photography, where, when, and why?” he explains in an interview conducted by Charles Guilbert.

Michel-Hardy Vallée, Premières planches. Photos de John Max – Fanny Bieth

Ciel variable 131 – COLLECTING | Lectures, Readings
Authors: Fanny Bieth | Artists: Michel-Hardy Vallée

This volume devoted to the formative years of photographer John Max, “as his professional status grew” is based on the discovery of previously unseen images that remained at the contact-sheet stage. Beyond offering a return to the 1950s and 1960s, Premières planches pays tribute to work done quietly, sheltered from view. “They reveal the swarm of experience behind the apparent coherence – before the selection and refinement – inscribing images, people, and illustrious moments in the shared continuum made of micro-narratives and multiple social groups,” comments Fanny Bieth.