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 […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Essays
Authors: Christian Gattinoni | Artists: Ginette Bouchard
[Winter 1995-1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Ginette Bouchard
[Winter 1995-1996] by Robert Legendre For more than ten years, Ginette Bouchard has been exploring, within her artistic photographic research, old techniques such as platinum/palladium proofs. Curiously, the artist’s attraction to old techniques has led to a profound interest in computer technologies in visual art. She takes pictures of the elements of her images using […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Portfolios
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Ron Levine
[Winter 1995-1996] by Mona Hakim Looking at Ron Levine’s photographs, I was reminded of a New York photographer’s humorous group portraits that appeared several years ago in the magazine Photo. These photographs of members of a wide variety of leagues and associations manifested a typically American mania for transfiguring ordinary people into celebrities. In mobilizing […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Paul Lowry
[Winter 1995-1996] by Sylvain Campeau Paul Lowry’s work, from Photographs from the Grand Academy of Lagado (1989-90) through Copulation Studies (1993) to Man Figure (1995), has been inspired by various sources. One of the most important is the photographic system of J.H. Lamprey, a British anthropologist who tried to create a comparative visual catalogue of different […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Book Reviews
Authors: Karen Wong
[Winter 1995-1996] New York, Art Works/The Education Project, 1993 19 x 17 cm, 60 pp., 35 ill. (19 col.), $21.00. English. The Education Project (TEP) has as its mandate to educate inner-city youths in the fields of film, video, and photography, with an emphasis on self-expression and technical training. Format: 20 x 24 inches. Colour. […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin
[Winter 1995-1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Mark Lewis : Public Art, Photographs and Projects, Johanne Lamoureux, Andrew Payne, Mark Lewis et al., Vancouver, The University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, 1994 135 p., 109 ill., 25×20 […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Doreen Lindsay
[Winter 1995-1996] Espace Trois, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal October 18-31, 1995 With the blatant exception of the human figure, it would be difficult to outweigh nature on the artistic agenda of recurring muses. Whether represented as a simple point of reference, romantically celebrated for its beauty and drama, or, of late, politically […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Luis Molina-Pantin
[Winter 1995-1996] Quartier Éphémère, Montreal September 12 – October 22, 1995 In his recent exhibition at Montreal’s Quartier Éphémère, Ana hotel series, San Francisco, Ca., the young San Francisco-based photographer Luis Molina-Pantin surveys the grandeur, emptiness, and sterile beauty of hotel interior. Five medium-to large-scale colour photographs reveal studied and Spartan compositions, in which a […]
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Louis Lussier
[Winter 1995-1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. L’Espace 705, 460, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, espace 705 Du 6 septembre au 1er octobre 1995
Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Book Reviews
Authors: Karen Wong | Artists: Timothé Rolin
[Winter 1995-1996] New York, Art Works/The Education Project, 1993 19 x 17 cm, 60 pp., 35 ill. (19 col.), $21.00. English. The Education Project (TEP) has as its mandate to educate inner-city youths in the fields of film, video, and photography, with an emphasis on self-expression and technical training. Format: 20 x 24 inches. Colour. […]