[Winter 2023]

Michael Snow, The Artist’s Maman Book
By Jean Gagnon

[Excerpt]

At age ninety-four, Michael Snow has published My Mother’s Collection of Photographs,¹ which he called his “maman book” during its production. As the title does not indicate, the photographs in question were not taken by an artist but are typical family pictures, a number of which were previously published in the catalogue Michael Snow: A Survey.² This book contains many more family pictures than did the catalogue and lends itself to much rambling: readers can oat contemplatively from page to page or look at individual images attentively in order to decipher historical documents. It is in memory of Snow’s mother, Marie-Antoinette Levesque – Toni to her friends, born in Chicoutimi in 1904 – and pays tribute to her in a compendium of photographs taken from the family albums that she amassed, conserved, and annotated throughout her long life, until her death in 2004…

[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 122 – NIGHT ROUNDS ]
[ Complete article, in digital version, available here: Michael Snow, The Artist’s Maman Book — Jean Gagnon ]