Marcel Blouin

Vox Populi 1985-1989, The origins of VOX, Ciel variable, and Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal – Marcel Blouin

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Essays
Authors: Marcel Blouin

December 11, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — It was Lucie Bureau who thought up the organization’s name. She was working at Radio Centre-Ville, a multilingual community radio station broadcasting from St. Lawrence Boulevard in Montreal. The name came to mind because she was producing “vox populi” pieces about social and cultural issues…

Dérision & raison – Marcel Blouin

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Book Reviews
Authors: Marcel Blouin | Artists: Adàl

[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Charleroi, Musée de la Photographie, 1997, 255 pages.

Photographie française, Parcours contemporains – Marcel Blouin

Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Book Reviews
Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. AFAA, Club d’investissement média, Interactive Fiction, Paris, 1996.

Révolte, photographie et immatérialité : provocation ou manifeste ? – Marcel Blouin

Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Essays
Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Rallying Resistance

Ciel variable 30 - UNTITLED | Editorial
Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Spring 1995] by Marcel Blouin Onee again, the words “budgetary cuts” are on the rise. My commitment to the field of photography has been active since 1980, and it seems to me that these words, synonymous with worry, have been uttered for the thousandth time. With the exception that this time, however, the abyss into […]

Photography As an Eclectic Specificity

Ciel variable 28 - PHOTO, SPECIFICITY, ECLECTISM | Editorial
Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Fall 1994] by Marcel Blouin Over the past 10 or 15 years, the medium of photography has found its way into the fields and definition of visual arts, contemporary arts and post-modernism. Not only did photography find its way, but it acquired both a privileged and considerable place in contemporary artistic production. Its letters patent […]

Contemporary Art Is and Must Be

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Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Winter 1993] by Marcel Blouin Art is looking for itself. Does not art look for itself and question itself? Would it be more accurate to say, rather, that art helps to throw light on the human being who is looking for himself? In a time when no one, anywhere, wishes to question things indeed, even […]

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