Disraeli Revisited: Chronicle of an Event in Quebec Photography

[Summer 2023]

Cedric Pearson, Magasin en ville, Disraeli / Store in Town, Disraeli, 1972

By Fanny Bieth

Musée McCord Stewart, Montréal
28.10.2022 — 19.02.2023

[Excerpt]

Commemorating an experiment conducted fifty years ago, the exhibition Disraeli Revisited: Chronicle of an Event in Quebec Photography is the result of an extraordinary collaboration between the team at the McCord Stewart Museum and those involved in the original project. The show was organized by Zoë Tousignant, the museum’s curator of photography.

In summer 1972, four young photographers – Claire Beaugrand-Champagne, Michel Campeau, Roger Charbonneau and Cedric Pearson – accompanied by two researchers – Ginette Laurin and Maryse Pellerin – spent three months in Disraeli, a town located in what is today the Appalaches Regional County Municipality. The group, which called itself Collectif de l’Imagerie populaire de Disraeli, set out to produce a documentary portrait of the town and its community. The project received funding from the federal government through its Opportunities for Youth program. The collective took hundreds of photographs, some of which it subsequently presented in exhibitions and publications…

[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 123 – THE POWER OF INTIMACY ]
[ Complete article, in digital version, available here: Disraeli Revisited: Chronicle of an Event in Quebec Photography — Fanny Bieth ]