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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 […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]