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Que vaut la photographie contemporaine ? – Éric Devlin
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Authors: Éric Devlin
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Eileen Leier – Sylvain Campeau, Sur la piste de la ruée vers l’or
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Eileen Leir
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Eileen Leier’s Sur la piste de la ruée vers l’or (On the gold-rush route) is a evidentiary installation that deals with the presence of remains and of photography in various […]
Marlene Creates – Robin Metcalfe
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Authors: Robin Metcalfe | Artists: Marlene Creates
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. by Robin Metcalfe The photography-based art of Marlene Creates has long dealt with the relationship between marking and landscape. Her photographs function as a means of documenting that relationship and posing […]
Mark Ruwedel, Pictures of Hell – Mark Ruwedel
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Portfolios
Authors: Mark Ruwedel | Artists: Mark Ruwedel
[Summer 1998] by Mark Ruwedel Once, from eastern ocean to western ocean, the land stretched away without names. Nameless headlands split the surf; nameless lakes reflected nameless mountains; and nameless rivers flowed through nameless valleys into nameless bays. — George R. Stewart, Names on the Land1 Devil’s Garden. The Devil’s Playground. The Devil’s Corral. Devil’s […]
David Rasmus, Offrande – Mona Hakim
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: David Rasmus
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox, Montréal Du 19 mars au 19 avril 1998
Andy Goldsworthy, Arche – Anne-Marie Garceau
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Authors: Anne-Marie Garceau | Artists: Andy Goldsworthy
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Du 8 avril au 7 juin 1998
La Photographie du 20ème siècle, Musée Ludwig de Cologne – Christine Desrochers
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Éditions Taschen, Allemagne, 1996, Avant-propos de Mark Scheps, 760 pages. 39.95$
Édouard Pontremoli, L’excès du visible. Une approche phénoménologique de la photogénie – Christine Desrochers
Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews
Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Éditions Millon, Collection Krisis, 1996, 187 pages. 39.00$
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Authors: Franck Michel
[Fall 1998] by Franck Michel As we all know, photography now plays a preponderant role on the contemporary-art scene. The autumn cultural season in Quebec provides ample proof of this with a particularly rich programme of photographic exhibitions. To begin with, there is the first Biennale de Montréal, organized by the Centre international d’art contemporain, […]
L’autofiction – Régine Robin
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Essays
Authors: Régine Robin
[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary This article discusses the new developments in autobiography, the featuring of the self in literature and photography, in a hybrid genre that Serge Doubrovsky has called “self-fiction.” The examples used […]
Holly King – Gary Michael Dault
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Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Holly King
[Fall 1998] by Gary Michael Dault Every photograph is constructed. In the usual order of events, however, a photograph is “constructed” first perceptually, then chemically or is otherwise processed in the tiny silicon bath of the computer and, finally, as an artefact. Holly King’s photographs represent an amplification and a reversal of this order of […]
Andrea Szilasi – Francine Dagenais
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Portfolios
Authors: Francine Dagenais | Artists: Andrea Szilasi
This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Andrea Szilasi finds her inspiration in science magazines and anatomy books. But however fascinated she may be with the inner workings of the human body, how it is quantified or depicted, hers […]
Duane Michals – Jennifer Couëlle
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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Duane Michals
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available Summary We think of him when we think of photographic mise en scène – and of narrative sequences, and of the integration of handwriting into photographs. When Duane Michals made his first photographic fictions in the mid-sixties, the practice was not entirely without […]
La Primavera fotogràfica 1998, 9e édition – Franck Michel
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Exhibition reviews
[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Barcelone, Espagne
Charles Gagnon, Observations – Mona Hakim
Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Charles Gagnon
[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec Du 6 mai au 27 septembre 1998
Françoise Marquet, André Derain et la photographie – Christine Desrochers
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Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Éditions Ides & Calendes, Collection Polychrome, 1997, 93 pages.
Graham Clarke, The Photograph – Christine Desrochers
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Authors: Christine Desrochers
[Fall 1998] This text was originally published in French.You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Oxford, Éditions Oxford University Press, Collection History of Art, 1997, 247 pages.
Editorial
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Authors: Franck Michel
[Winter 1998-1999] by Franck Michel The second edition of the Salon Paris-Photo recently took place in France. Presented at the same time as the Mois de la Photo à Paris, this event involved more than eighty exhibitions from all over the world, especially Europe and North America. Most of them were oriented toward sales and […]
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[WINTER 1998-1999]
Hors champs et tache aveugle – Jean-Pierre Latour
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Authors: Jean-Pierre Latour
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Leo Divendal – Sylvain Campeau, Terezin. Théâtres d’ombres
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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Leo Divendal
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary As a photographer, Leo Divendal is known for his recapturing of archival images, without added legend. In the series presented here, he accumulates portraits, park scenes, children’s games – all […]
Yan Giguère – Jennifer Couëlle, Portrait de la lune en camion. Une table, des étoiles
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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Yan Giguère
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary It has never been the aim of art photography to provide simple testimony to the unfurling of daily life – at least, not of its substance, its insipid ordinariness. The […]
Clara Gutsche – Denis Lessard, La série des couvents. Un patrimoine en transition
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Authors: Denis Lessard | Artists: Clara Gutsche
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Denis Lessard introduces his essay by defining what motivated Clara Gutsche to explore the world of cloistered nuns, its characteristic culture of welcoming, and the myths that surround it. Lessard […]
C’est la vie – Mona Hakim
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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Joachim Mogarra, Lucy Gunning, Sally Mann
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dans le cadre de la 1ère Biennale de Montréal Du 27 août au 18 octobre 1998
Sandra Haar, Lynne Marsh, Sexe-limite – Jennifer Couëlle
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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Lynne Marsh, Sandra Haar
[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. La Centrale, Montréal Du 3 octobre au 8 novembre 1998
The Ridiculed Image
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel
[Spring 1999] by Franck Michel In 1997, Jean Beaudry began to shoot a documentary on Quebec photography.1 Featuring an introduction that traces the history of photography in Quebec, interviews with people active in the photography milieu, and exhibition scenes, the film, L’objectif subjectif, follows three Montreal photographers – Raymonde April, Pierre Guimond, and Gilbert Duclos […]
Assujettir – Sylvain Campeau
Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau
[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.