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Chuck Samuels – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Chuck Samuels

[Winter 1996-1997] Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal October 5–November 24, 1996 How about a crash course in the history of the female nude in photography? How about replacing the female models with Adam himself? That, in a nutshell, is what Montreal photographer Chuck Samuels’s Before the Camera is about. Presented as part of CIAC’s […]

Bertrand Carrière – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke Du 1er juillet au 4 septembre 1996

Œuvres de guerre. Les femmes, la photographie et l’art de la guerre – Marie-Jeanne Musiol

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine Du 20 septembre au 15 décembre 1996

Frederic Law Olmsted en perspective. Photographies de Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander et Geoffrey James – Franck Michel

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Franck Michel

[Winter 1996-1997] Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal Du 16 octobre 1996 au 2 février 1997

Mireille Baril, Ces chambres que l’on croit obscures – François Dion

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Book Reviews
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Mireille Baril

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Montréal, Éditions Nicole Gingras, 1996, 44 p. Disponible chez Artexte.

Elizabeth A. Brown, Brancusi photographe / Anne-Françoise Penders, Brancusi, la photographie ou l’atelier comme «groupe mobile» – Manon Gosselin

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Elizabeth A. Brown, Paris, Assouline, coll. «La mémoire de l’art», 1995, 79 p., 56 illustrations noir et blanc Anne-Françoise Penders, La Lettre Volée, 1995, 58 p., 12 illustrations noir et blanc

André Jasinski – Jennifer Couëlle, Slowness Conquered

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: André Jasinski

[Hiver 1996-1997] There is the moon, the darkness, the ghost of industry. André Jasinski photographs urban remains at night. He highlights their grandeur and lonely poetry. And he sniffs out the scourges that shaped them. by Jennifer Couëlle Although the city and its structure were signs of modern dynamism and faith in machines, celebrated for […]

Lynne Cohen – Catherine Pomparat, Plural Infinitive

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Catherine Pomparat | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Winter 1996-1997] The odour of photographed things is tenacious and disconcerting: acrid, tepid, tart, icy, fetid, chemical, hygienic, aseptic, nauseating. An odour of “miserable humanity” in an auditorium, a waiting room, a dance hall, a bourgeois living room, an observation room, a treatment room, a shooting gallery, a classroom, a hairdressing salon, an exhibition hall, […]

Miki Gingras – Anne-Marie Garceau, Against All Reason

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Portfolios
Authors: Anne-Marie Garceau | Artists: Miki Gingras

by Anne-Marie Garceau Aside from the demolition machines attacking a distant wing of the boarding school, the site is deserted. The photographer enters the condemned building, determined to make the silence speak. For some twenty years, the boarding school’s classrooms, dormitories, corridors, and bathrooms have been haunted by the dreams and fears of the children […]

The Photographic Activity of “Visual Culture” – Cheryl Simon

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Essays
Authors: Cheryl Simon

[Hiver 1996-1997] by Cheryl Simon Last summer, October magazine ran a special issue on “visual culture.” Offering an “initial account of [the] uses and abuses” of this emergent concept, co-editors Rosalind Krauss and Hal Foster defined the term as “both a partial description of a social world mediated by commodity images and visual technologies, and […]

CV37

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel

[Winter 1996-1997] by Franck Michel CVphoto, as our readers have undoubtedly noticed, has been progressively acquiring a new image; we have improved the overall graphic layout and made some changes to the cover page. As of this issue, the space allotted to exhibition reviews has been expanded. From now on, we will be able to […]

Un magazine qui se consacre à la présentation et à l’analyse des pratiques de la photographie en lien à l’art contemporain, aux nouvelles technologies de l’image et aux enjeux actuels de la culture.

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