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 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 […]
