Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Patrick Coutu
[Fall 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec du 6 juin au 13 octobre 2002
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Petra Halkes | Artists: David Goldblatt
[Fall 2002] Kassel June 8 to September 15, 2002 A colour photo by South African photographer David Goldblatt, from a series titled Jo’Burg Intersections (1999–2002), shows high-rises of Johannesburg towering over an enormous garbage dump. Almost imperceptibly, two human shelters merge with the trash. Light fixtures and billboards in the middle ground indicate a sunken […]
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Authors: Judith Parker | Artists: Robert Frank
[Fall 2002] Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography June 22–September 12, 2002 Organized by the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, in cooperation with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. One of the greatest pleasures of this exhibition was to see Robert Frank’s photoworks in the context of his moving images and to experience […]
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 […]
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Authors: Louise Déry | Artists: Patrick Altman
[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 Using abundant photographic documentation from various collections, Patrick Altman’s personal museum highlights the inventorying and classification systems used by museum collections. He allows generous contact with hundreds of photographs, which […]
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Authors: Michèle Cohen Hadria | Artists: Catherine Poncin
[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 Manifesting her propensity for memory, Catherine Poncin takes no photographs; instead, she draws from a corpus of urban and community archives to gather significant, often unperceived “layers.” In Bobigny, a […]
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Authors: Elizabeth Legge | Artists: Vid Ingelevics
[Fall 2002] Between art and Art deals with the peculiar aspects of the work of museum photographers, whose large-format photographs of works of art, exhibition installations, and other details of the museum’s operations and its architecture are neither purely technical documentation nor art photography. Ingelevics capitalizes on the dense detail of this photography, which often […]
Ciel variable 59 - ARCHIVES | Editorial
Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2002] by Jacques Doyon This issue features the works of contemporary artists whose work involves the photographic archive. Because of its documentary aspect, photography was put to use in archives early and became an important component. In fact, it was this aspect that long kept photography from being recognized by the art world. Paradoxically, […]