Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Summer 1997] by Franck Michel This issue of CVphoto is the first in a trilogy devoted to the overarching notion of authenticity. The growing use of digital technologies in the various fields of photography, and the upheavals this has caused, has made this debate particularly timely and essential. In this issue, we will explore more […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Essays
Authors: Michaël Lachance
[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Portfolios
Authors: Russell Keziere | Artists: Arnaud Maggs
[Summer 1997] We live in a time when all communication happens under a cloud of erasure. We are conditioned instinctively to call into question vested interests and hidden, undisclosed motives. In this cloud of postmodern skepticism, words and representations are equivocal – until proven innocent. We negate before we can feel safe to affirm. By […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Portfolios
Authors: Juliet Hotbridge | Artists: P. M. Hoblargan
[Été 1997] The true, the false, the original, the copy, the authentic, the forgery; to distinguish them, evaluate them, then universalize the values – a problem that is almost insoluble, calling for responses that are multiple, mobile, and sometimes contradictory, depending on the civilization whose choices and rejections they govern. by Juliet Hotbridge Still confused […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Portfolios
Authors: Jocelyne Lupien | Artists: Alain Laframboise
[Summer 1997] Alain Laframboise’s photographic stillevens are imbued with the specific rhetoric of the hyper-codified genre that is still-life: the deliberate placement of inanimate and enigmatic objects; directional, dramatic, theatrical illumination (chiaroscuro); flat, shallow background against which the objects are projected; striking trompe-l’œil effect (which photography does well); hidden symbolic content that invites reflection on […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Book Reviews
Authors: Marcel Blouin | Artists: Adàl
[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Charleroi, Musée de la Photographie, 1997, 255 pages.
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Book Reviews
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Bill Vazan
[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Bill Vazan et John K. Grande Peterborough, The Art Gallery of Peterborough, 1996
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Richard Baillargeon
[Summer 1997] Dazibao, Montreal, January 16–February 23 Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, January 23–February 23 While images, whether photographic or other, necessarily give us something to look at, only some remind us that we are looking. And in the case of photography, with its inherent potential for the voyeuristic “gaze,” the sense of sight […]
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Benoit Aquin
[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, centre d’art et d’essai contemporains
Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Sally Mann
[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal Du 6 mars au 1er juin 1997