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Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre

[Winter 1995-1996] by Robert Legendre Since it was invented, photography has evolved constantly. The portfolio presenting some of Ginette Bouchard’s work published in this issue of CVphoto, as well as Carol Dallaire’s in issue 32, provides me with a pretext to reflect on the orientation toward a new technology. There has been a quiet movement […]

Michael Flomen – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Michael Flomen

[Fall 1995] Galerie Vox, Montreal May 27 to June 25 1995 Elegance is what first comes to mind when crossing the threshold of Galerie Vox where Montreal artist Michael Flomen has exhibited a series of twelve black-and-white photographs under the title Imminent Ground. The type of elegance that comes from assurance, from the combination of […]

Xavier Nuez – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Xavier Nuez

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Stornaway

Terry Atkinson, Jeff Wall Dead Troops Talk – John Zeppetelli

Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Book Reviews
Authors: John Zeppetelli

[Fall 1995] Wiese Verlag, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1993 50 pp., 21 ill. (5 col.), $ 28.00 Hijacking large-format transparencies in backlit display cases from advertising, and stealing the meticulous orchestration of detail, lighting, and rehearsal from film production, while also subscribing to the nineteenth-century imperative that the artist should be a peintre de la vie moderne, […]

Nicole Gingras, Les absences de la photographie = The Absence of Photography – Karen Wong

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Authors: Karen Wong

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Cinéma Libre, Montréal, 1994, 23 x 16 cm, 64 p., 53 ill. (I en coul.), 10,00 $.

Philippe Cyroulnik, Michèle Waquant & Michel Enrici, Michèle Waquant – François Dion

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Authors: François Dion | Artists: Michèle Waquant

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1994, 35 x 26 cm, 28 p., 21 ill. (6 en coul.), 25,00 $.

Le jeu du temps – Jean-Claude Lemagny (Supplement)

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Authors: Jean-Claude Lemagny

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. A history, a perspective, a place – Pierre Dessureault (Supplement)

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Authors: Pierre Dessureault

[Fall 1995] by Pierre Dessureault A museum is not only the sum of the objects in its collections but the history of an institution and a perspective on a particular area of creative expression. The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, formerly the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada, was established in […]

… d’une certaine tradition – Emmanuelle Léonard et Eugénie Robitaille

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Authors: Emmanuelle Léonard, Eugénie Robitaille

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Fiction – Sharon Harper

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Authors: Sharon Harper

[Fall 1995] by Sharon Harper A certain tendency, a tradition, germinated in Québec several decades ago with the work of John Max, through to that of Raymonde April and Michel Campeau. Recently, the second set of leaves in this growing tradition has started to open itself up to the photographic community and the art-going public. […]

La présence de la photographie dans les collections des musées. Spécificité d’un médium… d’une culture – Marie-Josée Jean (Supplément)

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Authors: Marie-Josée Jean

[Fall 1995] by Marie-Josée Jean Conference and exhibitions co-ordinator Since it was invented, photography has been recognized for the sensitivity and intensity of its formal expression. With the rise of modernism, attention was brought to bear on the ability of photography to crystallize fleeting moments. This ambivalent relationship between the literal and the figurative led […]

Fiction – Robert Legendre

Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Essays
Authors: Robert Legendre

[Fall 1995] by Robert Legendre The research group formed of Concordia University students directed by Professor Penny Cousineau, some of whose work we are presenting in this portfolio, is composed of Gema Alberto, Marie-Josée Desrochers, Loren Williams, Emmanuelle Léonard, Sharon Harper, Steve Leroux, Eugénie Robitaille, Xuan-Hui Nguyen, Jackie Wexler, Martin Villeneuve, Nicholas Michel, and Yan […]

Y a-t-il une nouvelle tendance en photographie au Québec? – Steve Leroux

Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Essays
Authors: Steve Leroux | Artists: Anne-Marie Zeppetelli, Gérald Gaudet, Jean-Jacques Ringuette, Miki Gingras, Stéphane Beaulieu, Susan Coolen, Suzanne Grégoire

[Fall 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 – Presence of Photography in the Musée du Québec Collection – Claude Thibault

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Authors: Claude Thibault | Artists: Charles Gagnon, Frederick Simpson Coburn, Serge Clément

[Fall 1995] by Claude Thibault Curator of Photography, Musée du Québec In early 1994, the Musée du Québec decided to create a sector devoted specifically to photography. A number of reasons sparked the adoption of this policy. First, the project fits naturally into its development program in its role of curator of our artistic heritage […]

Clara Gutsche, David Miller – Pierre Dessureault, Dialogue (Supplement)

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Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Clara Gutsche, David Miller

[Fall 1995] by Pierre Dessureault Associated curator, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa Since settling in Montreal on their arrival in Canada, Clara Gutsche and David Miller have worked together on many projects, producing a remarkable body of photographic work that portrays the city and its residents. There are few examples of couples in photography […]

Randy Koroluk – Mona Hakim, Circumvolution

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Randy Koroluk

[Fall 1995] by Mona Hakim Randy Koroluk’s photographs do not lend themselves to being viewed in a contemplative manner. Our eye ceaselessly wanders from plane to plane, finally being propelled in circumvolutions in many of the works. In other cases, our gaze glides along the linear marks of the motifs that stream down from the […]

Michel Lamothe – Philippe Dubois, Michel Lamothe ou l’homme qui fait respirer les images

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Authors: Philippe Dubois | Artists: Michel Lamothe

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Carol Dallaire – Francine Dagenais, Taking leave of the focal point

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Authors: Francine Dagenais | Artists: Carol Dallaire

[Fall 1995] by Francine Dagenais Related articles: Portfolio : Carol Dallaire, LE COMPLET BLEU ou l’apparence des choses qui ne sont pas des sons (French only) Article : Carol Dallaire – Marie-Josée Jean, L’image transmuée (French only)   The album titled Le complet bleu ou l’apparence des choses qui ne sont pas des sons (The […]

Carol Dallaire – Marie-Josée Jean, L’image transmuée

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Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Carol Dallaire

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.   Related articles: Portfolio : Carol Dallaire, LE COMPLET BLEU ou l’apparence des choses qui ne sont pas des sons (French only) Article : Carol Dallaire – Francine Dagenais, Taking leave […]

Carol Dallaire, LE COMPLET BLEU ou l’apparence des choses qui ne sont pas des sons

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Artists: Carol Dallaire

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Related articles: Article 1 : Carol Dallaire – Marie-Josée Jean, L’image transmuée (French only) Article 2 : Carol Dallaire – Francine Dagenais, Taking leave of the focal point

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Editorial

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Authors: Robert Legendre

[Fall 1995] by Robert Legendre Major artistic events both in concept and in scale, the MOIS DE LA PHOTO events are biennial exhibitions held in a number of big cities around the world. For the past eight years, under the auspices of the Vox Populi group, Montreal has been Canada’s host city for this event. […]

Angela Grauerholz – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Angela Grauerholz

[Summer 1995] Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal January 27 to April 23, 1995 Expectations arc necessarily high for internationally recognized artists like Angela Grauerholz. High, and not always easy to meet. While the body of work of an artist should not be judged by any single exhibition, retrospectives excepted, certain exhibitions can be of disservice […]

Mireille Laguë, (Re)cadrer le corps réel – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Mireille Laguë

[Summer 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.   Galerie Dazibao Du 1er au 30 avril 1995

Dieter Appelt – Mona Hakim

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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

Serge Allaire, Martin Breault, Lise Gagnon et Jean Lauzon, Montréal au XXe siècle. Regards de photographes – Robert Legendre

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 […]

Frances Robson – Andrée Martin, De quelques volutes corporelles

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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 […]

Kelly Lycan – Green House Plants

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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 […]

Pierre Blache – Jennifer Couëlle, Observations of Silenced Sites

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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 […]

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Money can’t buy happiness

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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 […]

Phyllis Katrapani – Robert Legendre, Figures in Lit Places

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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 […]

Bill Vazan – Mona Hakim, Carnet de voyages

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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 […]

Claude-Philippe Benoit

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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 […]

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  [Spring 1995] EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS

Rallying Resistance

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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 […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

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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 […]

Sylvie Readman – Manon Gosselin, Sylvie Readman, Portraiture

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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!…” ⎯ […]

Raymonde April – Régis Durand, Raymonde April: Les pèlerins de la mémoire lumineuse. “Routes, or itineraries of images…”

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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 […]

George Steeves – Martha Langford, George Steeves, Compilation

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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. […]

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[Winter 1994-1995]

CV29

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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 […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

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 […]

William Eakin – Claire Gravel, Monuments of Derision

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 […]

Richard Baillargeon, Champs / la mer – Lisanne Nadeau, Champs / la mer, L’anonymat de l’âme

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 […]

Linda Dawn Hammond – Robert Legendre, All Things Considered

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 […]

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Photography As an Eclectic Specificity

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 […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

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 […]

George Webber – Peter Duthie, Prairie: Photographs by George Webber

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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 […]

Donigan Cumming, Harry’s Diary – Nicole Gingras

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 […]

Charlotte RosshandIer – Stéphane Chagnon, In the Depths of Intima

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 […]

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And Come What May (Variations on a Diary, Continued…)!

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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 […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

Ciel variable 26 - DOCUMENTARY | Book Reviews
Authors: Christian Liboiron

[Spring 1994] Susan Sontag, Sur la photographie Paris, Éd. U.G.E., 1993, collection 10-18, 240 pp., $13.75. Translation of On Photography, New-York, Anchor Books, 1977 For a long while, the Francophone reader has had only a very bad translation of the essays presented in On Photography. Today, Philippe Blanchard offers us a translation that is both […]

Leonard Schlichting – Janette Platana, Leonard Schlichting’s Embarkation

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Authors: Janette Platana | Artists: Leonard Schlichting

[Spring 1994] by Janette Platana Schlichting’s Embarkation expresses the rough pleasure of existing in the sensual world, of loving its minute details. This work suggests captivation by close scrutiny, and the images are the result of suspended disbelief, an agreement to shift viewpoint and scale, so that a cobweb can become impenetrable as a cage, […]

Louis Lussier – Louis Lussier: While the city sleeps

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Authors: Manon Gosselin | Artists: Louis Lussier

[Spring 1994] by Manon Gosselin It swells within, beyond all containing. It revives. The humblest of creations dialogues with nothing but the metamorphoses that it attracts by virtue of its own mystery. Beyond revolt. Beyond reconciliation. ⎯ Jean-Luc Godard, 1987, Soigne ta droite …and in his shadow, never leaving him by so much as an […]

Iva Zimova – David Hopkins, The Documentary Photographs of Iva Zimova

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Authors: David Hopkins | Artists: Iva Zimova

[Summer 1994] by David Hopkins A weary man leans on the table — worn out from what appears to have been a sleepless night of heavy drinking. We are drawn into the drama. A woman stands in the doorway in the glaring morning light with her hands on her hips. Each of Zimova’s most recent […]

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Don’t make any waves!

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Authors: Robert Legendre

[Spring 1994] by Robert Legendre Dear Jacques, Dear Luc, In CV Photo‘s recent editorial (No.26), Marcel Blouin discussed the lack of perceptiveness (and lack of open-mindedness and of culture, I might add) of certain journalists, critics, essayists and thinkers in the analyses they make of art — in general, and that which has come to […]

Michel Hébert, The River-image – Claire Gravel

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Authors: Claire Gravel | Artists: Michel Hébert

[Winter 1993] by Claire Gravel For a quarter of a century has been relentlessly photographing the same set of landscapes, all of whose horizons include the St. Lawrence River. At first glance, it seems that these untamed locales in contrast to the mere simulacrum that is every work of art reaffirm the permanence of the […]

Ken Straiton, Tokyo Stories – Ken Straiton

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Authors: Ken Straiton | Artists: Ken Straiton

[Winter 1993] by Ken Straiton I have always been interested in cities. I love the country, but the city is food for thought and for my eyes. The real subject of cities is what interests all of us the most: human beings. For all the castigation of the city versus nature, the paradox is that […]

Jean-François Bérubé, Le jeu du portrait :* a guessing game – Suzie Larivée

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Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Jean-François Bérubé

[Winter 1993] by Suzie Larivée Portrait: n. m. (Portret, pourtrait, 1175; p.p. of portraire “to draw or represent”)… Jeu du portrait, where a player must guess the name of a person (or a thing) by asking questions to which one responds with only Yes or No. Le Petit Robert, p. 1489   “Portraiture consists of […]

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Contemporary Art Is and Must Be

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Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Winter 1993] by Marcel Blouin Art is looking for itself. Does not art look for itself and question itself? Would it be more accurate to say, rather, that art helps to throw light on the human being who is looking for himself? In a time when no one, anywhere, wishes to question things indeed, even […]

April Hickox, Looking Glass – Katy McCormick

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Authors: Katy McCormick | Artists: April Hickox

[Fall 1993] by Katy McCormick April Hickox’ visual narratives weave together fact and fancy, dream and memory. The images she selects and orders into sequences, diptychs and polyptychs-some photographed in a direct way, some staged, others “found” ortakenfrom historical sources-evoke a sense of moments lived, memory, passage and transformation. Over the years, Hickox has worked […]

April Hickox, La carte de l’être – Denis Lessard

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Authors: Denis Lessard | Artists: April Hickox

[Fall 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.   Summary When the Mind Hears, Part II and the other recent series by April Hickox function by the recurring theme of the juxtaposition of images. These are meta-series, drawing upon all categories of images and brought together in an order/ […]

France Choinière, Du détournement du dispositif ou de la photographie comme peau mutilée – Paul Breton

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Authors: Paul Breton | Artists: France Choinière

[Fall 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Summary In her approach, France Choinière uses the photographic image as a means to purloin or to appropriate, as something intermediate linked to the conditions or the tendencies of the interpretation. From one series to the next, the works encourage the […]

Benoît Aquin, Un regard libre – Pierre Dessureault

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Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Benoit Aquin

[Fall 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Abstract Benoît Aquin’s images are difficult to classify. They assume all the appearances of documentary photography. Like many photographers born during the sixties, he chose to follow this tradition that characterizes the production of an entire decade. These photographers have refused […]

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[Winter 1993]

L’épaule à la roue!

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Authors: Robert Legendre

[Fall 1993] by Robert Legendre It has now been more than a year since Marcel Blouin, Serge Clément and myself took over the managing of CV photo, maintaining the views and stances of the Board of Directors of les Productions Ciel Variable, its publisher. With the publishing of Issue Number 20 in September 1992, the […]

Claude Baillargeon, La mémoire des ombres – Franck Michel

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Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Claude Baillargeon

[Summer 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

Nicholas Amberg, Et plus touchant encore, visages – Suzie Larivée

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Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Nicholas Amberg

[Summer 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, feuilles photographiées – Sylvie Parent

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Authors: Sylvie Parent | Artists: Roberto Pellegrinuzzi

[Summer 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

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[Summer 1993]

…cela a doublement été

Ciel variable 23 - FACE, NATURE, ARCHITECTURE | Editorial
Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Summer 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

Cylla von Tiedemann – Andrée Martin, À la recherche du corps perdu

Ciel variable 22 - TO SHOW AND TO TELL | Portfolios
Authors: Andrée Martin | Artists: Cylla von Tiedemann

[Spring 1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Lucie Lefebvre – Marie-Lucie Crépeau, Le parti pris des choses

Ciel variable 22 - TO SHOW AND TO TELL | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Lucie Crépeau | Artists: Lucie Lefebvre

[Spring 1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Bertrand Carrière – Michel Campeau, La brèche aiguë de l’œil dessous la porte

Ciel variable 22 - TO SHOW AND TO TELL | Portfolios
Authors: Michel Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Spring 1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Set a Featured Image

Ciel variable 22 – TO SHOW AND TO TELL

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[Spring 1993]

Dire et montrer

Ciel variable 22 - TO SHOW AND TO TELL | Editorial
Authors: Robert Legendre

[Spring 1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Larry Towell – Robert Legendre

Ciel variable 21 - AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Larry Towell

[Winter 1992-1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Alain Paiement, Aberrations optiques

Ciel variable 21 - AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: Alain Paiement | Artists: Alain Paiement

[Winter 1992-1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Normand Rajotte – Serge Jongué, Archétypes d’après nature

Ciel variable 21 - AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
Authors: Serge Emmanuel Jongué | Artists: Normand Rajotte

[Winter 1992-1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ciel variable 21 – AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPHY

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[Winter 1992-1993]

Une photographie d’auteur. L’importance de la revue en tant que moyen de diffusion.

Ciel variable 21 - AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPHY | Editorial
Authors: Marcel Blouin | Artists: Alain Paiement, Larry Towell, Normand Rajotte

[Winter 1992-1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Marc-Antoine Daudelin, Errances américaines

Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Portfolios
Artists: Marc-Antoine Daudelin

[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

TAFOS, Los talleres de fotografia social

Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Portfolios
Authors: TAFOS | Artists: TAFOS

[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Milton Rogovin, Family of Minors

Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Portfolios
Artists: Milton Rogovin

[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Moi Christophe Colomb, légitime – Serge Jongué

Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Essays
Authors: Serge Emmanuel Jongué | Artists: Serge Emmanuel Jongué

[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Mark Ruwedel

Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Portfolios
Artists: Mark Ruwedel

[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Le continent et la tonne de briques – Hélène Monette

Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Essays
Authors: Hélène Monette

[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Gerardo Suter

Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Portfolios
Artists: Gerardo Suter

[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Racines américaines – Pierre Beaucage

Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Essays
Authors: Pierre Beaucage

[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Amériques et photographie – Robert Legendre

Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Essays
Authors: Robert Legendre

[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ciel variable 20 – AMERICAS

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[Spring 1992]

CV PHOTO : Un devenir, Le passage d’un état à un autre; la suite des changements

Ciel variable 20 - AMERICAS | Editorial
Authors: Marcel Blouin, Robert Legendre

[Fall 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

François Bastien, Lignes de force

Ciel variable 19 - MONTRÉAL EN VILLE | Portfolios

[Spring 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Montréalités, Section photo

Ciel variable 19 - MONTRÉAL EN VILLE | Portfolios

[Spring 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Serge Boisvert et André Bourbonnais, Les Foufounes Électriques: été 91

Ciel variable 19 - MONTRÉAL EN VILLE | Portfolios

[Spring 1992] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

Souvenirs de l’ouest – Jean-Hugue Roy

Ciel variable 19 - MONTRÉAL EN VILLE | Essays

[Spring 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

La grande désillusion – Carlo Chacal

Ciel variable 19 - MONTRÉAL EN VILLE | Essays

[Spring 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Jean François Leblanc et Robert Fréchette, Stock photo : la rue Sainte-Catherine

Ciel variable 19 - MONTRÉAL EN VILLE | Portfolios

[Spring 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

La Main, d’une rive à l’autre – Éric Barbeau

Ciel variable 19 - MONTRÉAL EN VILLE | Essays

[Spring 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Foreword : J’accroche mes patins – Pierre Crépô

Ciel variable 19 - MONTRÉAL EN VILLE | Editorial

[Spring 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Édito au nom du maire

Ciel variable 19 - MONTRÉAL EN VILLE | Editorial

[Spring 1992] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ciel variable 19 – MONTRÉAL EN VILLE

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[Spring 1992]

[Troisième prix] Horacio Paone, Chronique de quartier

Ciel variable 18 - SPÉCIAL PORTFOLIOS | Portfolios

[Winter 1991] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

[Deuxième prix] Marc Audette, Les Psychopompes

Ciel variable 18 - SPÉCIAL PORTFOLIOS | Portfolios

[Winter 1991] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

[Premier prix] Serge Clément, Cité fragile

Ciel variable 18 - SPÉCIAL PORTFOLIOS | Portfolios

[Winter 1991] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

[Hors-concours] Michel Gravel, photographe de presse – Fred Bruemmer

Ciel variable 18 - SPÉCIAL PORTFOLIOS | Portfolios

[Winter 1991] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Préface : CV18 – Robert Daudelin

Ciel variable 18 - SPÉCIAL PORTFOLIOS | Editorial

[Winter 1991] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ciel variable 18 – SPÉCIAL PORTFOLIOS

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[Winter 1991-1992]

Pour le deuxième concours de photographie Belle gueule

Ciel variable 18 - SPÉCIAL PORTFOLIOS | Editorial

[Winter 1991] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Le village – Hélène Monette

Ciel variable 17 - FAMILLE | Essays

[Fall 1991] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Daniel Latour, Secrets adieux

Ciel variable 17 - FAMILLE | Portfolios

[Fall 1991]

Le grand dilemme. Avanti popolo… – Carlo Chacal

Ciel variable 17 - FAMILLE | Essays

[Fall 1991] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Related articles : La famille Reconnaissance – Danielle Tremblay

Reconnaissance – Danielle Tremblay

Ciel variable 17 - FAMILLE | Essays

[Fall 1991] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Related articles : La famille Le grand dilemme. Avanti popolo… – Carlo Chacal

La famille

Ciel variable 17 - FAMILLE | Portfolios

[Fall 1991] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Related articles : Reconnaissance- Danielle Tremblay Le grand dilemme. Avanti popolo… – Carlo Chacal

Ludger Côté, Vieil album de famille – Nicole Filion, Les mariages

Ciel variable 17 - FAMILLE | Portfolios

[Fall 1991] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

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