Ciel variable 26 - DOCUMENTARY | Editorial
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 […]
Ciel variable 26 - DOCUMENTARY | Portfolios
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 […]
Ciel variable 26 - DOCUMENTARY | Portfolios
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 […]
Ciel variable 26 - DOCUMENTARY | Portfolios
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, […]
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 […]