Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Book Reviews
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Bill Vazan
[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Bill Vazan et John K. Grande Peterborough, The Art Gallery of Peterborough, 1996
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Sarla Voyer
[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre des Arts contemporains à Montréal Du 22 mars au 20 avril 1996
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Summer 1996] by Robert Legendre Recently I perused, not for the first time, La Matière, l’ombre, la fiction,1 a catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name presented in the Colbert Gallery of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1994 and 1995. Jean-Claude Lemagny, the exhibition curator, wrote most of the texts in […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Bertrand Carrière
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Montréal, Éditions Les 400 coups, coll. «Images», 1995.
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Ruth Kaplan
[Spring 1996] by Robert Legendre To look directly at Ruth Kaplan’s photographs, one must go beyond the “at first glance” voyeurism induced by curiosity. Instead, one must look closely at these works, which portray a world of tranquillity and peace, imbued with tender sensuality, where time moves slowly. Freed of the constraints of an outdated, […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Spring 1996] by Robert Legendre “Each person’s fate is linked to the source of his or her dignity.”1 And at the moment, CVphoto’s dignity is to survive with pleasure. That is why we are starting, with this issue, to publish texts the content of which will no doubt interest all of our readers. We believe […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Ginette Bouchard
[Winter 1995-1996] by Robert Legendre For more than ten years, Ginette Bouchard has been exploring, within her artistic photographic research, old techniques such as platinum/palladium proofs. Curiously, the artist’s attraction to old techniques has led to a profound interest in computer technologies in visual art. She takes pictures of the elements of her images using […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Winter 1995-1996] by Robert Legendre Since it was invented, photography has evolved constantly. The portfolio presenting some of Ginette Bouchard’s work published in this issue of CVphoto, as well as Carol Dallaire’s in issue 32, provides me with a pretext to reflect on the orientation toward a new technology. There has been a quiet movement […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Essays
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Fall 1995] by Robert Legendre The research group formed of Concordia University students directed by Professor Penny Cousineau, some of whose work we are presenting in this portfolio, is composed of Gema Alberto, Marie-Josée Desrochers, Loren Williams, Emmanuelle Léonard, Sharon Harper, Steve Leroux, Eugénie Robitaille, Xuan-Hui Nguyen, Jackie Wexler, Martin Villeneuve, Nicholas Michel, and Yan […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Fall 1995] by Robert Legendre Major artistic events both in concept and in scale, the MOIS DE LA PHOTO events are biennial exhibitions held in a number of big cities around the world. For the past eight years, under the auspices of the Vox Populi group, Montreal has been Canada’s host city for this event. […]
Ciel variable 31 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Summer 1995] Edited by Michel Lessard, Les Éditions de l’homme, Montréal, 1995 336 pages, 59,95 $. As part of a remarkable series on photography in Quebec, Montréal au XX’ siècle. Regards de photographes is a truly magnificent book. Its foremost quality is that it unites and makes accessible a large number of outstanding photographs presenting […]
Ciel variable 31 - UNTITLED | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Summer 1995] by Robert Legendre Money can’t buy happiness: it allows one to suffer comfortably!1 CVphoto began its bilingual venture as of issue 24. Initially, we published translated summaries of our French and English articles, then we became more ambitious and opted for complete translations. Although satisfying, the enterprise proved to be costly. With the […]
Ciel variable 30 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Phyllis Katrapani
[Spring 1995] by Robert Legendre I am interested in reinstating in the figurative representation of an object the entire complex system of the impressions it makes upon us in ordinary situations of daily life; that is, the manner in which it shakes our affectivity and the shapes it takes in our memory. ⎯ Jean Dubuffet1 […]
Ciel variable 29 - UNTITLED | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
by Robert Legendre What follows is a request for moral support. The board of directors and editorial committee of CVphotois seeking the sympathy of certain supporters of the arts, of photography in particular, and of its contributors. As readers of the magazine, you too may voice your support and appreciation. We would very much appreciate […]
Ciel variable 28 - PHOTO, SPECIFICITY, ECLECTISM | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Linda Dawn Hammond
[Fall 1994] by Robert Legendre Linda Dawn Hammond‘s work – in keeping with the artist herself – is clearly unusual. At times, her photography and the manner in which it is articulated appear to take origin as much in a cry of anxiety as in a state of surprise. Whatever the nature of the subject […]
Ciel variable 27 - PERSONAL DIARIES | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Summer 1994] by Robert Legendre May 6, 1994 I seem to recall a short piece published a few weeks back in the Montreal newspaper La Presse. It alleged that certain members of the board of directors of the Université de Montréal were discreetly reaping fringe benefits, over and above their considerable emoluments. May 7, 1994 […]
Ciel variable 26 - DOCUMENTARY | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Spring 1994] by Robert Legendre Dear Jacques, Dear Luc, In CV Photo‘s recent editorial (No.26), Marcel Blouin discussed the lack of perceptiveness (and lack of open-mindedness and of culture, I might add) of certain journalists, critics, essayists and thinkers in the analyses they make of art — in general, and that which has come to […]
Ciel variable 24 - Untitled | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Fall 1993] by Robert Legendre It has now been more than a year since Marcel Blouin, Serge Clément and myself took over the managing of CV photo, maintaining the views and stances of the Board of Directors of les Productions Ciel Variable, its publisher. With the publishing of Issue Number 20 in September 1992, the […]
Ciel variable 22 - TO SHOW AND TO TELL | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Spring 1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 21 - AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Larry Towell
[Winter 1992-1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Essays
Authors: Robert Legendre
[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Editorial
Authors: Marcel Blouin, Robert Legendre
[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.