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EDITORIAL

On the Dissipation of the Authentic – Francine Dagenais

Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Essays
Authors: Francine Dagenais

[Winter 1997-1998] by Francine Dagenais Authenticity as it relates to representation has always been associated with the concept of essence circumscribed, at least in part, by its opposite, non-essence. We have established, quite logically, marked differentiations between essence, purity, truth, and uniqueness, on the one hand, and fusion, hybridity, compromise, and multiplicity, on the other. […]

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[Winter 1998] EDITORIAL FOCUS PORTFOLIOS EXHIBITIONS READINGS

CV41

Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel

[Winter 1997-1998] by Franck Michel As I was writing this editorial, I learned that Claude Thibeault, curator of the photography collection at the Musée du Québec, has lost his job. Four years ago, the Musée du Québec set up a collection dedicated exclusively to photography and appointed Mr. Thibeault to run it, showing its desire […]

Jean-Luc Moulène – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Jean-Luc Moulène

[Fall 1997] Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris April 25–June 22, 1997 “The historian, like the camera, always lies.” In discussing history’s inevitable inaccuracies, historian Norman Davies recalls how the impossible task of the historian has been likened to that of the photographer. The former must collate as many sources as possible in […]

John Max – Serge Allaire

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Serge Allaire | Artists: John Max

[Fall 1997] 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 20 mars au 20 avril 1997

Lectures – Manon Gosselin

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Fall 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Michael Ondaatje, Coming through Slaughter, Toronto, Anansi, 1976, 156 p. Peter Galassi & Sherry Turner DeCarava, Roy DeCarava : A retrospective, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1996, 280 p. Milt […]

Loren Williams, Cabinet de curiosités – Pierre Blache

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Loren Williams

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Born in Creston, British Columbia, Loren Williams studied photography at David Thompson University, B.C., and at Concordia University, Montreal. For several years, her work has been closely tied the “found objects” that she collects and arranges according to a personal taxonomic system. In this context, she is interested in the […]

Mia Weinberg, Fractured Legacy – Pierre Blache

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Mia Weinberg

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Mia Weinberg has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, where she lives. Her artistic practice revolves around three axes: the notion of cultural displacement (diaspora), links between generations, and the influence of identity. In Fractured Legacy, she examines the […]

Xuân-Huy Nguyen, Compositions – Pierre Blache

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Xuân-Huy Nguyen

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache A Montrealer of Vietnamese origin, Xuân-Huy Nguyen earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts (photography major) from Concordia University. With Compositions, Nguyen casts a critical eye on Quebec photography, which he feels is distant and bland. Appropriating images made by well-known photographers, he plays with irony and irreverence to shake […]

Janieta Eyre, Incarnations – Pierre Blache

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Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Janita Eyre

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Janieta Eyre studied photography at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, and has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto. She lives and works in Toronto. Her work mixes fiction, history, culture, and memory in symbolically charged portraits. Reality loses its footing in these disturbing scenes, in […]

Ethan Eisenberg, Holyland: from the Time of the Peace Process – Pierre Blache

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Ethan Eisenberg

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Ethan Eisenberg has a master’s degree in fine arts (photography) from Concordia University, Montreal. He currently lives in Toronto, where he has been a freelance photographer since 1993. For the last three years, he has been involved in a documentary photography project in the heart of the occupied territory of […]

Allan Edgar, La Marque – Mark of the Hand – Pierre Blache

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Allan Edgar

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache A native British Columbian, Allan Edgar has a fine-arts degree from Camosun Visual Arts College in Victoria and currently works and lives in Montreal. He works directly on large-format black-and-white negatives and on his final proofs, using, among other things, selective toning, varnishes, and abrasives. The result is very large […]

Charles Bergeron, Nulles parts – Pierre Blache

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Charles Bergeron

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache A native of La Tuque, Quebec, Charles Bergeron studied visual arts at Université Laval, Quebec City, and Université du Québec à Montréal. He currently lives in Montreal. Trained mainly in sculpture and installation, he only recently discovered the possibilities offered by photography. His photographic “centrings” (his term) are used for […]

Dolores Baswick, The Transitional Place – Pierre Blache

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Dolores Baswick

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Dolores Baswick has been working as a commercial photographer for almost twenty years. She studied at Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, in Oakville, Ontario, from 1976 to 1978, which enabled her to find work in corporate and advertising photography. In 1991, she registered at the Emily Carr College […]

Sara Angelucci, Evidence of Her Disappearance – Pierre Blache

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Sara Angelucci

[Fall 1997] Sara Angelucci was born in Guelph, Ontario, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts; she is currently studying for a master’s degree in visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. For the past several years, her multimedia works, which include photography, have explored the notion of […]

Me, my Grandmother, the Object, and the Others – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Essays
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle

[Fall 1997] by Jennifer Couëlle An exhibition whose objective is to present the work of young and not so young, but above all relatively unknown artists raises expectations – if not particularly with regard to specifics of the works presented, then certainly with regard to what we could call trends. It is an exercise not […]

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[Fall 1997]

CV40

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel

[Fall 1997] by Franck Michel Since its inception, CVphoto has favoured new currents in its choice of both artists and writers. In fact, we feel that a magazine dedicated to contemporary photography should provide some recognition to young artists and writers. And so, this year, our participation in LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO À MONTRÉAL […]

Objectif corps – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Sally Mann

[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal Du 6 mars au 1er juin 1997

Benoît Aquin, Haïti chérie – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Benoit Aquin

[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, centre d’art et d’essai contemporains

Richard Baillargeon – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Richard Baillargeon

[Summer 1997] Dazibao, Montreal, January 16–February 23 Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, January 23–February 23 While images, whether photographic or other, necessarily give us something to look at, only some remind us that we are looking. And in the case of photography, with its inherent potential for the voyeuristic “gaze,” the sense of sight […]

Bill Vazan, Jumpgates, An Overview of Photoworks, 1981-1995 – Robert Legendre

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

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.

Alain Laframboise, Stilleven – Jocelyne Lupien, L’inquiétante étrangeté des objets immobiles

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Portfolios
Authors: Jocelyne Lupien | Artists: Alain Laframboise

[Summer 1997] Alain Laframboise’s photographic stillevens are imbued with the specific rhetoric of the hyper-codified genre that is still-life: the deliberate placement of inanimate and enigmatic objects; directional, dramatic, theatrical illumination (chiaroscuro); flat, shallow background against which the objects are projected; striking trompe-l’œil effect (which photography does well); hidden symbolic content that invites reflection on […]

P.M. Hoblargan, Premier album 1855-1885 et Dernier album 1885-1923 – Juliet Hotbridge

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Portfolios
Authors: Juliet Hotbridge | Artists: P. M. Hoblargan

[Été 1997] The true, the false, the original, the copy, the authentic, the forgery; to distinguish them, evaluate them, then universalize the values – a problem that is almost insoluble, calling for responses that are multiple, mobile, and sometimes contradictory, depending on the civilization whose choices and rejections they govern. by Juliet Hotbridge Still confused […]

Arnaud Maggs, Notification – Russell Keziere, Convergence sans coïncidence

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Portfolios
Authors: Russell Keziere | Artists: Arnaud Maggs

[Summer 1997] We live in a time when all communication happens under a cloud of erasure. We are conditioned instinctively to call into question vested interests and hidden, undisclosed motives. In this cloud of postmodern skepticism, words and representations are equivocal – until proven innocent. We negate before we can feel safe to affirm. By […]

Valeur d’échange de l’authenticité – Michaël Lachance

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Essays
Authors: Michaël Lachance

[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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[Fall 1998]

Authenticity

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel

[Summer 1997] by Franck Michel This issue of CVphoto is the first in a trilogy devoted to the overarching notion of authenticity. The growing use of digital technologies in the various fields of photography, and the upheavals this has caused, has made this debate particularly timely and essential. In this issue, we will explore more […]

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.

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