Accueil > The Photobook

  • Français

Ciel variable Magazine

The magazine aims to identify and examine photographic practices that share the ground with contemporary art processes, new image technologies and matters related to global culture.

Main menu

Skip to content
  • RECENTS ISSUES
  • BOUTIQUE
  • |
  • WEB COLUMNS
  • ONLINE ISSUES
  • |
  • ABOUT

The Photobook

Show Grid Show List
← WEB COLUMNS

Ciel variable has always been on the lookout for publications by artists and curators so that we can review them for the magazine’s Readings section. We’ve also kept a close eye on photobooks, which are a genre unto themselves and the support of choice for the deployment and apprehension of bodies of photographic work. In recent years, interest in the photobook as an object has picked up again in terms of creation, distribution, and sales, and a large number of commentators have looked at the issues involved in its resurgence.

Ciel variable wants to contribute to these discussions by bringing here to the public in this section voices that are sensitive to the creative richness and blossoming of this expanding sector. A first series of reviews of photobooks by Québec artists was published in December 2021, written by Louis Perreault (whose introduction can be read here). Other reviews have been added since then. We are now adding a contribution from Michel Hardy-Vallée – a review of Isaac Diggs and Edward Hillel’s highly musical book about Detroit as techno city, Electronic Landscapes.

Electronic Landscapes: Music, Space and Resistance in Detroit, by Isaac Diggs and Edward Hillel


Authors: Michel Hardy-Vallée | Artists: Edward Hillel, Isaac Diggs

[June 20 2022] By Michel Hardy-Vallée. Outside of Detroit, it’s most likely that the symbols of this post-industrial city are its ruins: of houses, large and small; of automobile plants; of grandiose theatres…

Edward Hillel, Isaac Diggs

Gregory Halpern, ZZYZX – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Gregory Halpern

May 18, 2022 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — In the photography world, the book continues to play an essential role of dissemination. Yet, beyond simply being a tool for promotion of a photographer’s work, the book is seen by many as a creative space on its own…

Chizu (Maquette Edition), by Kikuji Kawada


Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Kikuji Kawada

[April 21 2022] By Louis Perreault. Kikuji Kawada began to work on Chizu in 1958, when he went to Hiroshima for the magazine Shūkan Shinshō to photograph Ken Domon, who had just published a book titled after the ill-fated city…

Kikuji Kawada

La montagne qui hurle, by Betty Bogaert


Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Betty Bogaert

[December 16, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Over the Vercors massif and the Haute-Maurienne valley roll heavy clouds, saturated with what may be tomorrow’s weather. Night falls slowly. In a hut overlooking a grassy expanse, tea leaves are dropped into boiling water, and the creaking of old…

Betty Bogaert

Glazial-Kosmogonie, by Josée Pedneault


Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Josée Pedneault

[December 16, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Scientific accounts explaining the origin of the universe have always been confronted with beliefs arising from the times within which they were pronounced. Although the great laws of physics have probably elucidated the mystery of the creation of…

Josée Pedneault

Chrysalises, by Guillaume Tomasi


Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Guillaume Tomasi

[December 15, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Certain events transform our lives, leaving indelible marks of their passage. The usual and the common are no longer what they used to be, and the people around us are suddenly thrown into a new light…

Guillaume Tomasi

Prendre fin, by Sarah Boutin


Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Sarah Boutin

[December 9, 2021] By Louis Perreault Artist Sarah Boutin’s Prendre fin1 isn’t, properly speaking, a photobook; it’s more like a creative journal or an artist book. In addition to presenting series of photographs, it contains screen captures showing various research images and drawings made by Boutin, as well as poetry and philosophical reflections. Her artistic […]

Sarah Boutin

I Wish You Could Look Through Me, by Antoine Giroux


Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Louis Perreault

[December 7, 2021] By Louis Perreault. “Human experience is a memory instantly archived and digitized.”1 This statement sets the table for an adventure in the world of artist Antoine Giroux. At first, we resist the statement…

Louis Perreault

Les autres imaginaires, by Hubert Gaudreau


Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Hubert Gaudreau

[November 30, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Two golden circles overlap, like a Venn diagram, on the front of Hubert Gaudreau’s softcover book Les autres imaginaires1. The theory of groups that Gaudreau proposes is indeed composed of interconnected elements. That is, as long as we are ready to enter these…

Hubert Gaudreau

liwa mairin, la femme de l’eau, by Valérian Mazataud


Authors: Louis Perreault

[November 30, 2021] By Louis Perreault. In Mosquitia, a coastal region in northeast Honduras, the “woman of the waters,” better known locally as liwa mairin, reigns. The daring men who dive into the depths of the Caribbean Sea to catch sea cucumbers and other fine edibles too often pay the price of her curse…

Rebâtir le ciel, by Simon Émond and Michel Lemelin


Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Simon Émond

[November 23, 2021] By Louis Perreault. On the cover of Rebâtir le ciel, the terms associated with different gender identities are intermingled with those of astronomy. Androgyny, near-Earth object, gender dysphoria, black galaxy, lesbophobia, telluric planet, biological sex, and other radio-astronomical bodies form a sort of long poem…

Simon Émond

Looking North, by Jessica Auer


Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Jessica Auer

[November 23, 2021] By Louis Perreault. In Jessica Auer’s most recent film, Shore Power, one scene could act as prelude for Looking North. We see a large window, opening out to a calm body of water. After a moment, on the right, a huge ferry appears and then crosses the image very slowly…

Jessica Auer

Le jardin d’après, by Anne-Marie Proulx


Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Anne-Marie Proulx

[November 23, 2021] By Louis Perreault. Stretching out on the black asphalt are rays of hard light that have pierced through the foliage of a white ash tree. Farther on, cobblestones, aged by several hundred years of foot, car, and horse traffic, suggest an old American city, which is not named…

Anne-Marie Proulx

Post navigation

CV120 - Figures of Affirmation | Current Issue | Summer 2022 | Cover Image
Boutique
Or use the Advanced Search

The Magazine

  • On Newsstands
  • RECENT ISSUES
  • Online Boutique
  • Subscriptions

Online

  • Web Columns
  • The Photobook
  • Documentary Photography
  • Artists’ Projects
  • Under Other Skies
  • Online Issues

Ciel variable

  • About / Contact
  • Submission
  • Advertising
  • Supporting the Magazine

Follow us!

Newsletter Icon
logo facebook
logo instagram
logo twitter
© Magazine Ciel variable 2022
5445, Av. de Gaspé, bureau 612, Montréal, Qc, Canada H2T 3B2 – 514/390-1193 – info [arrobas] cielvariable.ca