April Hickox, La carte de l’être – Denis Lessard

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Authors: Denis Lessard | Artists: April Hickox

[Fall 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.   Summary When the Mind Hears, Part II and the other recent series by April Hickox function by the recurring theme of the juxtaposition of images. These are meta-series, drawing upon all categories of images and brought together in an order/ […]

April Hickox, Looking Glass – Katy McCormick

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Authors: Katy McCormick | Artists: April Hickox

[Fall 1993] by Katy McCormick April Hickox’ visual narratives weave together fact and fancy, dream and memory. The images she selects and orders into sequences, diptychs and polyptychs-some photographed in a direct way, some staged, others “found” ortakenfrom historical sources-evoke a sense of moments lived, memory, passage and transformation. Over the years, Hickox has worked […]

Contemporary Art Is and Must Be

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Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Winter 1993] by Marcel Blouin Art is looking for itself. Does not art look for itself and question itself? Would it be more accurate to say, rather, that art helps to throw light on the human being who is looking for himself? In a time when no one, anywhere, wishes to question things indeed, even […]

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Jean-François Bérubé, Le jeu du portrait :* a guessing game – Suzie Larivée

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Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Jean-François Bérubé

[Winter 1993] by Suzie Larivée Portrait: n. m. (Portret, pourtrait, 1175; p.p. of portraire “to draw or represent”)… Jeu du portrait, where a player must guess the name of a person (or a thing) by asking questions to which one responds with only Yes or No. Le Petit Robert, p. 1489   “Portraiture consists of […]

Ken Straiton, Tokyo Stories – Ken Straiton

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Authors: Ken Straiton | Artists: Ken Straiton

[Winter 1993] by Ken Straiton I have always been interested in cities. I love the country, but the city is food for thought and for my eyes. The real subject of cities is what interests all of us the most: human beings. For all the castigation of the city versus nature, the paradox is that […]

Michel Hébert, The River-image – Claire Gravel

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Authors: Claire Gravel | Artists: Michel Hébert

[Winter 1993] by Claire Gravel For a quarter of a century has been relentlessly photographing the same set of landscapes, all of whose horizons include the St. Lawrence River. At first glance, it seems that these untamed locales in contrast to the mere simulacrum that is every work of art reaffirm the permanence of the […]

Don’t make any waves!

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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 […]

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Iva Zimova – David Hopkins, The Documentary Photographs of Iva Zimova

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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 […]

Louis Lussier – Louis Lussier: While the city sleeps

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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 […]

Leonard Schlichting – Janette Platana, Leonard Schlichting’s Embarkation

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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, […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

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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 […]

And Come What May (Variations on a Diary, Continued…)!

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Authors: Robert Legendre

[Summer 1994] by Robert Legendre May 6, 1994 I seem to recall a short piece published a few weeks back in the Montreal newspaper La Presse. It alleged that certain members of the board of directors of the Université de Montréal were discreetly reaping fringe benefits, over and above their considerable emoluments. May 7, 1994 […]

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[Summer 1994]

Charlotte RosshandIer – Stéphane Chagnon, In the Depths of Intima

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Authors: Stéphane Chagnon | Artists: Charlotte Rosshandler

[Summer 1994] by Stéphane Chagnon Hidden behind Laval Street’s Victorian architecture and ground floor rooms filled with artefacts, Charlotte Rosshandler’s Montreal studio bears resemblance to a backstage scene. The tranquil room with its simple decor inspires one to become detached from the world outside, to leave behind interfering concerns. Here and there, but a few […]

Donigan Cumming, Harry’s Diary – Nicole Gingras

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Authors: Nicole Gingras | Artists: Donigan Cumming

[Summer 1994] by Nicole Gingras Harry’s Diary is at the heart of Donigan Cumming’s most recent work. Pretty Ribbons, a series he developed for over ten years. Marking an out step from all that this photographer has produced to date, Harry’s Diary stands out by its facture, its quasi amorous manner ol depicting its subjects […]

George Webber – Peter Duthie, Prairie: Photographs by George Webber

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Authors: Peter Duthie | Artists: George Webber

[Summer 1994] by Peter Duthie In Western Canada, more specifically Alberta, many photographers give the prairies a passing glance before losing themselves in the breath-taking pictorial beauty of the Canadian Rockies. For them the prairies offer nothing to capture on a sheet of film: no grandeur, no drama, no “eloquent” light that Ansel Adams made […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

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Authors: Christian Liboiron

[Summer 1994] Bill Brandt Photographs 1928-1983, London, Thames & Hudson, 1993, 192 p., ill. n.et b.,45$ Brandt a été photojournaliste, travaillant principalement, de 1934 à 1951, pour Weekly Illustrated, Lilliput, Picture Post et Harper’s Bazaar, avant d’orienter son travail sur les relations de l’espace et du corps. Son œuvre s’articule donc en projet photographique issu […]

Photography As an Eclectic Specificity

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Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Fall 1994] by Marcel Blouin Over the past 10 or 15 years, the medium of photography has found its way into the fields and definition of visual arts, contemporary arts and post-modernism. Not only did photography find its way, but it acquired both a privileged and considerable place in contemporary artistic production. Its letters patent […]

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[Fall 1994]

Linda Dawn Hammond – Robert Legendre, All Things Considered

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Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Linda Dawn Hammond

[Fall 1994] by Robert Legendre Linda Dawn Hammond‘s work – in keeping with the artist herself – is clearly unusual. At times, her photography and the manner in which it is articulated appear to take origin as much in a cry of anxiety as in a state of surprise. Whatever the nature of the subject […]

Richard Baillargeon, Champs / la mer – Lisanne Nadeau, Champs / la mer, L’anonymat de l’âme

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Authors: Lisanne Nadeau | Artists: Richard Baillargeon

[Fall 1994] by Lisanne Nadeau L’anonymat de l’âme1 Through a gaze both anxious and passionate, Richard Baillargeon seeks temporary shelter. He explores territories of the individual, which he describes as “the universe of what is near.” To better understand the path the artist has chosen, let us look back to when the idea of travel […]

William Eakin – Claire Gravel, Monuments of Derision

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Authors: Claire Gravel | Artists: William Eakin

[Fall 1994] by Claire Gravel William Eakin is interested in what he refers to as cultural shards, or objects that inform of a popular culture whose aesthetic values are looked down upon by people with “taste.” Deeply marked by the austerity of Walker Evans’s universe and by Robert Frank’s The Americans, Eakin says he is […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

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Authors: Christian Liboiron

[Fall 1994] Serge Clément, Cité fragile, Montréal, Vox Populi, 1992, 60 pp., ill. b. & w., stapled, $30. Over the past two decades, documentary photography has come to be looked upon with a certain amount of uneasiness and mistrust. Time and again it has been disgraced, notably by Martha Rossler and Alan Sekula, who rebuked […]

CV29

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Authors: Robert Legendre

by Robert Legendre What follows is a request for moral support. The board of directors and editorial committee of CVphotois seeking the sympathy of certain supporters of the arts, of photography in particular, and of its contributors. As readers of the magazine, you too may voice your support and appreciation. We would very much appreciate […]

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[Winter 1994-1995]

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. […]

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 […]

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!…” ⎯ […]