Are you looking for interviews or an artist’s portfolios? Would you like to reread an exhibition or book review? In this section, you can access the content of archived Ciel variable issues by exploring different types of articles published in the magazine.
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.
