Fiction – Robert Legendre

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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

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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

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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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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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