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Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin
[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Édité par Liz Heron et Val Williams, Durham, Duke University Press, 1996, 521p., 46 illus. n. et b.
Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle
[Spring 1997] Dazibao, Montreal November 14 – December 15, 1996 Photographic images have more to do with ideas and impressions than with their material contingencies. Truism? At this point in time, yes. Nonetheless, the notion of photography as thought, as opposed to document, was served up as one of the main discourses in the second […]
Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Pierre Guimond
[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal Du 24 octobre au 1er décembre 1996
Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Anne-Marie Zeppetelli
[Spring 1997] The self-portrait is the “secret scheme of all autobiography.” Here, in fact, the story of events experienced by the narrator is less important than is the portrait she offers of herself in action. Organized in themes rather than along a narrative line, the self-portrait is constructed through a series of “reminders, returns, superimpositions, […]
Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Portfolios
Authors: Céline Mayrand | Artists: Anne Arden McDonald
[Spring 1997] by Céline Mayrand To escape the unbearable feeling of powerlessness to which her human limitations confine her, Anne Arden McDonald exceeds them. She imagines herself free to float and breathe in the water and to fly in the air. For this young artist-photographer, self-representation quickly imposed itself as a necessity; even when she […]
Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Portfolios
Authors: Annie Molin Vasseur | Artists: Diana Thorneycroft
[Spring 1997] There are girls and women who don’t want to believe everything that is said about them, or they would have to dismantle all the legends! This ontological need leads to an often terrifying plunge into the unconscious – the path Diana Thorneycroft takes in her search for her identity. by Annie Molin Vasseur […]
Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Essays
Authors: Serge Tisseron
[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
[Spring 1997]
Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Spring 1997] by Franck Michel For CVphoto, 1997 promises to be a very exciting year. With promotional and subscription campaigns, partnerships, launches, and lectures, we are putting forth our energy and openness in an effort to increase our visibility in Quebec, Canada, and abroad. Our first “operation” will be a random draw among new subscribers […]
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 […]
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
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
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
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.
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
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
[Winter 1996-1997]
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 […]
Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Geoffrey James
[Fall 1996] Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal May 2–July 28, 1996 From Homer’s Odyssey to Kerouac’s On the Road and beyond, travel has provided inspiration for countless tales. Part of the attraction lies in breaking boundaries, in widening the realm of the imaginary. Then there is what Voltaire’s nomadic characters Candide and Cacambo recognized […]
Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Dieter Appelt
[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal Du 17 avril au 4 août 1996
Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews
Authors: François Dion
[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Éditions Revue Noire, 1995, 416 p. Disponible chez Olivieri-Musée ou chez DPLU.
Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin
[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction d’André Rouillé, Paris, Macula, 1989, 543 p., illus., 80,00$.
Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: Jean-Claude Lemagny | Artists: Serge Clément
[Fall 1996] Clément’s technique as an artist does not differ from his technique as a reporter-photographer, which he is as well. But it is absolutely enough to “bring the earth closer and establish a world,” to take up Martin Heidegger’s fundamental thought. “Bring the earth closer” means bringing to the surface that which is in […]
Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Artists: Katherine Knight
[Fall 1996] by Katherine Knight Looking down I saw that my left trouser leg was burned off. I pulled the rip cord of my parachute and checked my descent with a jerk. About twenty feet above the water I attempted to undo my parachute, failed and flopped into the sea with it billowing around me. […]
Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: Jean Arrouye | Artists: Arnaud Claass
[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Essays
Authors: Vincent Lavoie
[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Fall 1996] by Franck Michel Not one day passes that the media don’t mention the issues of globalization, internationalization, and disappearing borders. Our planet is, after all, becoming quite small. Starting with this issue, CVphoto has decided to join in the party. From now on, this magazine will no longer deal exclusively with photography from […]
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews
Authors: Marc J. Léger | Artists: Olivier Asselin, Réal Lussier
[Summer 1996] Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 1995, 58 pp. Reproductions in black and white and colour. The catalogue L’Effet cinéma, addendum to the recent exhibition of Canadian, American, and European artists, outlines some of the theoretical issues that emerge from a consideration of the presence of cinematographic elements in contemporary art. As the doubly […]
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin, Sylvain Campeau
[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sylvain Campeau, Chambres obscures : photographie et installation, Laval, Éditions Trois, 1995, 288 pages.
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: David Rasmus
[Summer 1996] Galerie Dazibao, Montreal April 6–May 5, 1996 Issues of ethnic, racial, and gender identity have been riding high on the “top ten” of exhibition themes for quite some time now. As a result, art has increasingly adopted the documentary form to varying degrees. But in this cacophony of artistic commentary on the politics […]
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 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Lucie Duval
[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox Du 15 février au 17 mars 1996
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: David Liss | Artists: Marc Tessier
[Summer 1996] by David Liss Marc Tessier is a poet, a storyteller, an alchemist, an artist. His films, comics, and photographs are the matter by which he transforms mundane existence and ordinary reality into a mythological universe of imaginative possibility and adventure. He playfully fabricates magical landscapes, fairy-tale environments, and surrealistic worlds of wonder that […]
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Marie-Jeanne Musiol
[Été 1996] by Marie-Josée Jean Marie-Jeanne Musiol’s images invest the territory of invisibility by inscribing subtle traces of emanations on their surface – more precisely, the luminous emanations commonly known as “auras.” These auras, once sunk deep into the secret of their own invisibility, have been revealed thanks to the Kirlian apparatus, a vision-enhancing machine […]
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Artists: Serge Clément
[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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.
[Summer 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 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Simon Glass
[Spring 1996] Galerie Vox, Montreal January 11–February 11, 1996 With his recent exhibition Yahweh!, Toronto-based photographer Simon Glass virtually transforms the rather small and narrow space of Galerie Vox into a shrine bringing to mind, of course, the perennial analogy between museums and cathedrals or, in this case, between gallery and temple. Four different groups […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Gabor Szilasi
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Canadien d’Architecture Du 6 mars au 26 mai 1996
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Sylvie Readman
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Samuel Lallouz du 25 novembre 1995 au 6 janvier 1996
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews
Authors: John Zeppetelli
[Spring 1996] Discovering the Secrets of Monsieur Pippin ISBBN 2 908257 17 3. Published on the occasion of Steven Pippin’s exhibition Les Coopérateurs at F.R.A.C. Limousin 1995 Ascribing mythic points of origin to an artist’s body of work has a dubious history. It follows that Steven Pippin’s childhood initiation into the elaborate rituals of processing […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews
Authors: Marc J. Léger | Artists: Krzysztof Wodiczko
[Spring 1996] Compiled by Marie-Anne Sichère, translated from English by Michelle Herpe-Voslinsky and from Polish by Wojciech Kolecki. École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1995, 342 pp., 140 ill. This newly edited publication in the “Écrits d’artistes” series makes available a number of translated articles and statements written by the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. The opening […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Berkeley (Californie), University of California Press,1993, 632 p.
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: Charles Perraton | Artists: Daniel Kieffer
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Daniel Kieffer’s photographs constantly transport the viewer from one side of the lens to the other. With his camera at the service of sensation rather than the “beautiful image,” Kieffer […]
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 | Portfolios
Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Franck Michel
[Spring 1996] by Suzie Larivée The garden is an image of the world San for the mountain. Sui for water. The sand becomes water. The stone becomes a mountain. The Japanese garden is a theatre: in transposing a landscape, reducing an existing natural site, it brings together an ancient arrangement of water, stones, sand, hilly […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary On September 23, 1995, Vox Populi, in collaboration with the Musée d’art contemporain, organized a conference entitled “The Presence of Photography in Museum Collections: Specificity of a Medium and […]
[Spring 1996]
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 | Book Reviews
Authors: Karen Wong | Artists: Timothé Rolin
[Winter 1995-1996] New York, Art Works/The Education Project, 1993 19 x 17 cm, 60 pp., 35 ill. (19 col.), $21.00. English. The Education Project (TEP) has as its mandate to educate inner-city youths in the fields of film, video, and photography, with an emphasis on self-expression and technical training. Format: 20 x 24 inches. Colour. […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Louis Lussier
[Winter 1995-1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. L’Espace 705, 460, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, espace 705 Du 6 septembre au 1er octobre 1995
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Luis Molina-Pantin
[Winter 1995-1996] Quartier Éphémère, Montreal September 12 – October 22, 1995 In his recent exhibition at Montreal’s Quartier Éphémère, Ana hotel series, San Francisco, Ca., the young San Francisco-based photographer Luis Molina-Pantin surveys the grandeur, emptiness, and sterile beauty of hotel interior. Five medium-to large-scale colour photographs reveal studied and Spartan compositions, in which a […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Doreen Lindsay
[Winter 1995-1996] Espace Trois, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal October 18-31, 1995 With the blatant exception of the human figure, it would be difficult to outweigh nature on the artistic agenda of recurring muses. Whether represented as a simple point of reference, romantically celebrated for its beauty and drama, or, of late, politically […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin
[Winter 1995-1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Mark Lewis : Public Art, Photographs and Projects, Johanne Lamoureux, Andrew Payne, Mark Lewis et al., Vancouver, The University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, 1994 135 p., 109 ill., 25×20 […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Book Reviews
Authors: Karen Wong
[Winter 1995-1996] New York, Art Works/The Education Project, 1993 19 x 17 cm, 60 pp., 35 ill. (19 col.), $21.00. English. The Education Project (TEP) has as its mandate to educate inner-city youths in the fields of film, video, and photography, with an emphasis on self-expression and technical training. Format: 20 x 24 inches. Colour. […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Paul Lowry
[Winter 1995-1996] by Sylvain Campeau Paul Lowry’s work, from Photographs from the Grand Academy of Lagado (1989-90) through Copulation Studies (1993) to Man Figure (1995), has been inspired by various sources. One of the most important is the photographic system of J.H. Lamprey, a British anthropologist who tried to create a comparative visual catalogue of different […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Portfolios
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Ron Levine
[Winter 1995-1996] by Mona Hakim Looking at Ron Levine’s photographs, I was reminded of a New York photographer’s humorous group portraits that appeared several years ago in the magazine Photo. These photographs of members of a wide variety of leagues and associations manifested a typically American mania for transfiguring ordinary people into celebrities. In mobilizing […]
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 | Essays
Authors: Christian Gattinoni | Artists: Ginette Bouchard
[Winter 1995-1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
[Winter 1995-1996]
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 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Michael Flomen
[Fall 1995] Galerie Vox, Montreal May 27 to June 25 1995 Elegance is what first comes to mind when crossing the threshold of Galerie Vox where Montreal artist Michael Flomen has exhibited a series of twelve black-and-white photographs under the title Imminent Ground. The type of elegance that comes from assurance, from the combination of […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Xavier Nuez
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Stornaway
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Book Reviews
Authors: John Zeppetelli
[Fall 1995] Wiese Verlag, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1993 50 pp., 21 ill. (5 col.), $ 28.00 Hijacking large-format transparencies in backlit display cases from advertising, and stealing the meticulous orchestration of detail, lighting, and rehearsal from film production, while also subscribing to the nineteenth-century imperative that the artist should be a peintre de la vie moderne, […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Book Reviews
Authors: Karen Wong
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Cinéma Libre, Montréal, 1994, 23 x 16 cm, 64 p., 53 ill. (I en coul.), 10,00 $.
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Book Reviews
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Michèle Waquant
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1994, 35 x 26 cm, 28 p., 21 ill. (6 en coul.), 25,00 $.
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Essays
Authors: Jean-Claude Lemagny
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Essays
Authors: Pierre Dessureault
[Fall 1995] by Pierre Dessureault A museum is not only the sum of the objects in its collections but the history of an institution and a perspective on a particular area of creative expression. The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, formerly the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada, was established in […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Essays
Authors: Emmanuelle Léonard, Eugénie Robitaille
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Essays
Authors: Sharon Harper
[Fall 1995] by Sharon Harper A certain tendency, a tradition, germinated in Québec several decades ago with the work of John Max, through to that of Raymonde April and Michel Campeau. Recently, the second set of leaves in this growing tradition has started to open itself up to the photographic community and the art-going public. […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Essays
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean
[Fall 1995] by Marie-Josée Jean Conference and exhibitions co-ordinator Since it was invented, photography has been recognized for the sensitivity and intensity of its formal expression. With the rise of modernism, attention was brought to bear on the ability of photography to crystallize fleeting moments. This ambivalent relationship between the literal and the figurative led […]
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 | Essays
Authors: Steve Leroux | Artists: Anne-Marie Zeppetelli, Gérald Gaudet, Jean-Jacques Ringuette, Miki Gingras, Stéphane Beaulieu, Susan Coolen, Suzanne Grégoire
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Claude Thibault | Artists: Charles Gagnon, Frederick Simpson Coburn, Serge Clément
[Fall 1995] by Claude Thibault Curator of Photography, Musée du Québec In early 1994, the Musée du Québec decided to create a sector devoted specifically to photography. A number of reasons sparked the adoption of this policy. First, the project fits naturally into its development program in its role of curator of our artistic heritage […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Clara Gutsche, David Miller
[Fall 1995] by Pierre Dessureault Associated curator, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa Since settling in Montreal on their arrival in Canada, Clara Gutsche and David Miller have worked together on many projects, producing a remarkable body of photographic work that portrays the city and its residents. There are few examples of couples in photography […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Randy Koroluk
[Fall 1995] by Mona Hakim Randy Koroluk’s photographs do not lend themselves to being viewed in a contemplative manner. Our eye ceaselessly wanders from plane to plane, finally being propelled in circumvolutions in many of the works. In other cases, our gaze glides along the linear marks of the motifs that stream down from the […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Philippe Dubois | Artists: Michel Lamothe
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Francine Dagenais | Artists: Carol Dallaire
[Fall 1995] by Francine Dagenais Related articles: Portfolio : Carol Dallaire, LE COMPLET BLEU ou l’apparence des choses qui ne sont pas des sons (French only) Article : Carol Dallaire – Marie-Josée Jean, L’image transmuée (French only) The album titled Le complet bleu ou l’apparence des choses qui ne sont pas des sons (The […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Carol Dallaire
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Related articles: Portfolio : Carol Dallaire, LE COMPLET BLEU ou l’apparence des choses qui ne sont pas des sons (French only) Article : Carol Dallaire – Francine Dagenais, Taking leave […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Artists: Carol Dallaire
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Related articles: Article 1 : Carol Dallaire – Marie-Josée Jean, L’image transmuée (French only) Article 2 : Carol Dallaire – Francine Dagenais, Taking leave of the focal point
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 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Angela Grauerholz
[Summer 1995] Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal January 27 to April 23, 1995 Expectations arc necessarily high for internationally recognized artists like Angela Grauerholz. High, and not always easy to meet. While the body of work of an artist should not be judged by any single exhibition, retrospectives excepted, certain exhibitions can be of disservice […]
Ciel variable 31 - UNTITLED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Mireille Laguë
[Summer 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Dazibao Du 1er au 30 avril 1995
Ciel variable 31 - UNTITLED | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Dieter Appelt
[Summer 1995] 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 1er mars au 28 mai 1995
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 | Portfolios
Authors: Andrée Martin | Artists: Frances Robson
[Summer 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. by Andrée Martin Summary The following text reproduces most of Frances Robson’s artist’s statement, which gives readers an over-all view of Robson’s approach to her work. R. L. These photographs were […]
Ciel variable 31 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Sara Hartland-Rowe | Artists: Kelly Lycan
[Summer 1995] by Sara Hartland-Rowe I heard a story a few years ago about a nineteenth-century photographer. His entire body of work consisted of hundreds of glass-plate negatives that no one wanted when he died. Eventually, someone took the glass plates to make walls for a greenhouse. Through exposure to the sun over time, the […]
Ciel variable 31 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Pierre Blache
[Summer 1995] by Jennifer Couëlle At times, it seems that the most haunting images are those that, at first glance, appear to be innocuous – the very type that one would least expect to re-envision repeatedly, as a disturbing dream quietly recurring. Blatantly dramatic imagery is easier to identify and, therefore, to classify and be […]
[Summer 1995]
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 30 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bill Vazan
[Spring 1995] by Mona Hakim Bill Vazan’s fragmented photographs, one comes to understand the necessity of interrogating the very conditions of photography’s procedures, and consequently, those of vision. Conditions related to what Philippe Dubois adverts to as the “flatness” of the photographic image, an image “reinforced by the monocular nature of the optical device, [and […]
Ciel variable 30 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Artists: Claude-Philippe Benoît
[Spring 1995] The photography of interiors is the business of urban strollers, crossing thresholds to search within, for traces of the occupants’ passage. by Claude-Philippe Benoit In recent years, my projects have begun by paying a visit to various places where power is made manifest and its games, played out. “In its simplest form,” my […]
[Spring 1995] EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS
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 […]
Ciel variable 29 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews
Authors: Christian Liboiron
[Winter 1994-1995] William A. Ewing, The body: Photographs of the human form, San Fransisco, Chronicle Books, 1994, reproductions in black-and-white and colour, $ 39.95 Comprising photographs of diverging nature and purpose, this florilegium of photography of the 19th and 20th centuries shows the representation of the body as a dominating motif. Ewing proposes an archeology […]
Ciel variable 29 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Sylvie Readman
[Winter 1994-1995] by Manon Gosselin “… imagine!… whole body like gone… just the mouth… lips… cheeks… aws… never- …what?… tongue?… yes… lips… heeks… aws… tongue… never still a second… outh on fire… stream of words… in her ear… radically in her ear…not catching the half… not the quarter… no idea what she’s saying… imagine!…” ⎯ […]
Ciel variable 29 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Régis Durand | Artists: Raymonde April
[Winter 1994-1995] by Régis Durand In a story by Gianni Celati, one of the narrators recounts the case of two women who appear to be haunted or inhabited by images: “The man from the bookshop in Mantova believed that they deemed their existence of very little importance. It appeared to him that they considered themselves […]
Ciel variable 29 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Martha Langford | Artists: George Steeves
[Winter 1994-1995] by Martha Langford She answered his request with the usual string of excuses. It was too late. He had asked her too late. Why had he not asked her earlier? She was too tired. She wanted to recite the rosary to the radio at seven. It was her way of teasing the child. […]
[Winter 1994-1995]
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 | Book Reviews
Authors: Christian Liboiron
[Fall 1994] Serge Clément, Cité fragile, Montréal, Vox Populi, 1992, 60 pp., ill. b. & w., stapled, $30. Over the past two decades, documentary photography has come to be looked upon with a certain amount of uneasiness and mistrust. Time and again it has been disgraced, notably by Martha Rossler and Alan Sekula, who rebuked […]
Ciel variable 28 - PHOTO, SPECIFICITY, ECLECTISM | Portfolios
Authors: Claire Gravel | Artists: William Eakin
[Fall 1994] by Claire Gravel William Eakin is interested in what he refers to as cultural shards, or objects that inform of a popular culture whose aesthetic values are looked down upon by people with “taste.” Deeply marked by the austerity of Walker Evans’s universe and by Robert Frank’s The Americans, Eakin says he is […]
Ciel variable 28 - PHOTO, SPECIFICITY, ECLECTISM | Portfolios
Authors: Lisanne Nadeau | Artists: Richard Baillargeon
[Fall 1994] by Lisanne Nadeau L’anonymat de l’âme1 Through a gaze both anxious and passionate, Richard Baillargeon seeks temporary shelter. He explores territories of the individual, which he describes as “the universe of what is near.” To better understand the path the artist has chosen, let us look back to when the idea of travel […]
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 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 […]
Ciel variable 27 - PERSONAL DIARIES | Book Reviews
Authors: Christian Liboiron
[Summer 1994] Bill Brandt Photographs 1928-1983, London, Thames & Hudson, 1993, 192 p., ill. n.et b.,45$ Brandt a été photojournaliste, travaillant principalement, de 1934 à 1951, pour Weekly Illustrated, Lilliput, Picture Post et Harper’s Bazaar, avant d’orienter son travail sur les relations de l’espace et du corps. Son œuvre s’articule donc en projet photographique issu […]
Ciel variable 27 - PERSONAL DIARIES | Portfolios
Authors: Peter Duthie | Artists: George Webber
[Summer 1994] by Peter Duthie In Western Canada, more specifically Alberta, many photographers give the prairies a passing glance before losing themselves in the breath-taking pictorial beauty of the Canadian Rockies. For them the prairies offer nothing to capture on a sheet of film: no grandeur, no drama, no “eloquent” light that Ansel Adams made […]
Ciel variable 27 - PERSONAL DIARIES | Portfolios
Authors: Nicole Gingras | Artists: Donigan Cumming
[Summer 1994] by Nicole Gingras Harry’s Diary is at the heart of Donigan Cumming’s most recent work. Pretty Ribbons, a series he developed for over ten years. Marking an out step from all that this photographer has produced to date, Harry’s Diary stands out by its facture, its quasi amorous manner ol depicting its subjects […]
Ciel variable 27 - PERSONAL DIARIES | Portfolios
Authors: Stéphane Chagnon | Artists: Charlotte Rosshandler
[Summer 1994] by Stéphane Chagnon Hidden behind Laval Street’s Victorian architecture and ground floor rooms filled with artefacts, Charlotte Rosshandler’s Montreal studio bears resemblance to a backstage scene. The tranquil room with its simple decor inspires one to become detached from the world outside, to leave behind interfering concerns. Here and there, but a few […]
[Summer 1994]
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 […]
