Simon Glass – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Simon Glass

[Spring 1996] Galerie Vox, Montreal January 11–February 11, 1996 With his recent exhibition Yahweh!, Toronto-based photographer Simon Glass virtually transforms the rather small and narrow space of Galerie Vox into a shrine bringing to mind, of course, the perennial analogy between museums and cathedrals or, in this case, between gallery and temple. Four different groups […]

The “ça a été” of the “Has Been”

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Authors: Robert Legendre

[Summer 1996] by Robert Legendre Recently I perused, not for the first time, La Matière, l’ombre, la fiction,1 a catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name presented in the Colbert Gallery of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1994 and 1995. Jean-Claude Lemagny, the exhibition curator, wrote most of the texts in […]

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[Summer 1996]

Révolte, photographie et immatérialité : provocation ou manifeste ? – Marcel Blouin

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Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

André Clément, André Clément, Vues en abîmes

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Artists: Serge Clément

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Marie-Jeanne Musiol- Marie-Josée Jean, Champs de l’apparition

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Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

[Été 1996] by Marie-Josée Jean Marie-Jeanne Musiol’s images invest the territory of invisibility by inscribing subtle traces of emanations on their surface – more precisely, the luminous emanations commonly known as “auras.” These auras, once sunk deep into the secret of their own invisibility, have been revealed thanks to the Kirlian apparatus, a vision-enhancing machine […]

Marc Tessier – David Liss, Tarot

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Authors: David Liss | Artists: Marc Tessier

[Summer 1996] by David Liss Marc Tessier is a poet, a storyteller, an alchemist, an artist. His films, comics, and photographs are the matter by which he transforms mundane existence and ordinary reality into a mythological universe of imaginative possibility and adventure. He playfully fabricates magical landscapes, fairy-tale environments, and surrealistic worlds of wonder that […]

Lucie Duval, 25 images/seconde ; photographies détournées – Suzie Larivée

Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Lucie Duval

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox Du 15 février au 17 mars 1996

Sarla Voyer, Objet de dérivation – Robert Legendre

Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Sarla Voyer

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre des Arts contemporains à Montréal Du 22 mars au 20 avril 1996

Fabrications – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: David Rasmus

[Summer 1996] Galerie Dazibao, Montreal April 6–May 5, 1996 Issues of ethnic, racial, and gender identity have been riding high on the “top ten” of exhibition themes for quite some time now. As a result, art has increas­ingly adopted the documentary form to varying degrees. But in this cacophony of artistic commentary on the politics […]

Sylvain Campeau, Chambres obscures : photographie et installation – Manon Gosselin

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Authors: Manon Gosselin, Sylvain Campeau

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sylvain Campeau, Chambres obscures : photographie et installation, Laval, Éditions Trois, 1995, 288 pages.

Réal Lussier & Olivier Asselin, L’Effet cinéma – Marc J. Léger

Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews
Authors: Marc J. Léger | Artists: Olivier Asselin, Réal Lussier

[Summer 1996] Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 1995, 58 pp. Reproductions in black and white and colour. The catalogue L’Effet cinéma, addendum to the recent exhibition of Canadian, American, and European artists, outlines some of the theoretical issues that emerge from a consideration of the presence of cinematographic elements in contemporary art. As the doubly […]

The Odour of the Planet

Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel

[Fall 1996] by Franck Michel Not one day passes that the media don’t mention the issues of globalization, internationalization, and disappearing borders. Our planet is, after all, becoming quite small. Starting with this issue, CVphoto has decided to join in the party. From now on, this magazine will no longer deal exclusively with photography from […]

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[Fall 1996]

Les fins de l’ontologie photographique – Vincent Lavoie

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Authors: Vincent Lavoie

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Arnaud Claass – Jean Arrouye, L’art aporétique d’Arnaud Claass

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Authors: Jean Arrouye | Artists: Arnaud Claass

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Katherine Knight, I became unconscious

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Artists: Katherine Knight

[Fall 1996] by Katherine Knight Looking down I saw that my left trouser leg was burned off. I pulled the rip cord of my parachute and checked my descent with a jerk. About twenty feet above the water I attempted to undo my parachute, failed and flopped into the sea with it billowing around me. […]

Serge Clément – Jean-Claude Lemagny, De l’apparition à la présence

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Authors: Jean-Claude Lemagny | Artists: Serge Clément

[Fall 1996] Clément’s technique as an artist does not differ from his technique as a reporter-photographer, which he is as well. But it is absolutely enough to “bring the earth closer and establish a world,” to take up Martin Heidegger’s fundamental thought. “Bring the earth closer” means bringing to the surface that which is in […]

La Photographie en France, textes et controverses : une anthologie 1818 -1871 – Manon Gosselin

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Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction d’André Rouillé, Paris, Macula, 1989, 543 p., illus., 80,00$.

Pierre Fátúmbi Verger, Dieux d’Afrique – François Dion

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Authors: François Dion

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Éditions Revue Noire, 1995, 416 p. Disponible chez Olivieri-Musée ou chez DPLU.

Dieter Appelt : La catastrophe des choses – Suzie Larivée

Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Dieter Appelt

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal Du 17 avril au 4 août 1996

Travel Journals, Part I – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Geoffrey James

[Fall 1996] Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal May 2–July 28, 1996 From Homer’s Odyssey to Kerouac’s On the Road and beyond, travel has provided inspiration for countless tales. Part of the attraction lies in break­ing boundaries, in widening the realm of the imaginary. Then there is what Voltaire’s nomadic characters Candide and Cacambo recognized […]

CV37

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Authors: Franck Michel

[Winter 1996-1997] by Franck Michel CVphoto, as our readers have undoubtedly noticed, has been progressively acquiring a new image; we have improved the overall graphic layout and made some changes to the cover page. As of this issue, the space allotted to exhibition reviews has been expanded. From now on, we will be able to […]

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The Photographic Activity of “Visual Culture” – Cheryl Simon

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Authors: Cheryl Simon

[Hiver 1996-1997] by Cheryl Simon Last summer, October magazine ran a special issue on “visual culture.” Offering an “initial account of [the] uses and abuses” of this emergent concept, co-editors Rosalind Krauss and Hal Foster defined the term as “both a partial description of a social world mediated by commodity images and visual technologies, and […]

Miki Gingras – Anne-Marie Garceau, Against All Reason

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Authors: Anne-Marie Garceau | Artists: Miki Gingras

by Anne-Marie Garceau Aside from the demolition machines attacking a distant wing of the boarding school, the site is deserted. The photographer enters the condemned building, determined to make the silence speak. For some twenty years, the boarding school’s classrooms, dormitories, corridors, and bathrooms have been haunted by the dreams and fears of the children […]

Lynne Cohen – Catherine Pomparat, Plural Infinitive

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Authors: Catherine Pomparat | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Winter 1996-1997] The odour of photographed things is tenacious and disconcerting: acrid, tepid, tart, icy, fetid, chemical, hygienic, aseptic, nauseating. An odour of “miserable humanity” in an auditorium, a waiting room, a dance hall, a bourgeois living room, an observation room, a treatment room, a shooting gallery, a classroom, a hairdressing salon, an exhibition hall, […]

André Jasinski – Jennifer Couëlle, Slowness Conquered

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: André Jasinski

[Hiver 1996-1997] There is the moon, the darkness, the ghost of industry. André Jasinski photographs urban remains at night. He highlights their grandeur and lonely poetry. And he sniffs out the scourges that shaped them. by Jennifer Couëlle Although the city and its structure were signs of modern dynamism and faith in machines, celebrated for […]

Elizabeth A. Brown, Brancusi photographe / Anne-Françoise Penders, Brancusi, la photographie ou l’atelier comme «groupe mobile» – Manon Gosselin

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Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Elizabeth A. Brown, Paris, Assouline, coll. «La mémoire de l’art», 1995, 79 p., 56 illustrations noir et blanc Anne-Françoise Penders, La Lettre Volée, 1995, 58 p., 12 illustrations noir et blanc

Mireille Baril, Ces chambres que l’on croit obscures – François Dion

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Authors: François Dion | Artists: Mireille Baril

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Montréal, Éditions Nicole Gingras, 1996, 44 p. Disponible chez Artexte.

Frederic Law Olmsted en perspective. Photographies de Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander et Geoffrey James – Franck Michel

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Authors: Franck Michel

[Winter 1996-1997] Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal Du 16 octobre 1996 au 2 février 1997

Œuvres de guerre. Les femmes, la photographie et l’art de la guerre – Marie-Jeanne Musiol

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Authors: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine Du 20 septembre au 15 décembre 1996

Bertrand Carrière – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke Du 1er juillet au 4 septembre 1996

Chuck Samuels – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Chuck Samuels

[Winter 1996-1997] Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal October 5–November 24, 1996 How about a crash course in the history of the female nude in photography? How about replacing the female models with Adam himself? That, in a nutshell, is what Montreal photographer Chuck Samuels’s Before the Camera is about. Presented as part of CIAC’s […]

CV38

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Authors: Franck Michel

[Spring 1997] by Franck Michel For CVphoto, 1997 promises to be a very exciting year. With promotional and subscription campaigns, partnerships, launches, and lectures, we are putting forth our energy and openness in an effort to increase our visibility in Quebec, Canada, and abroad. Our first “operation” will be a random draw among new subscribers […]

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Être dans l’image – Serge Tisseron

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Authors: Serge Tisseron

[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Diane Thorneycroft – Annie Molin Vasseur

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Authors: Annie Molin Vasseur | Artists: Diana Thorneycroft

[Spring 1997] There are girls and women who don’t want to believe everything that is said about them, or they would have to dismantle all the legends! This ontological need leads to an often terrifying plunge into the unconscious – the path Diana Thorneycroft takes in her search for her identity. by Annie Molin Vasseur […]

Anne Arden McDonald – Black-and-White Dreams, Céline Mayrand

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Authors: Céline Mayrand | Artists: Anne Arden McDonald

[Spring 1997] by Céline Mayrand To escape the unbearable feeling of powerlessness to which her human limitations confine her, Anne Arden McDonald exceeds them. She imagines herself free to float and breathe in the water and to fly in the air. For this young artist-photographer, self-representation quickly imposed itself as a necessity; even when she […]

Anne-Marie Zeppetelli, Bodies and Traces – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Anne-Marie Zeppetelli

[Spring 1997] The self-portrait is the “secret scheme of all autobiography.” Here, in fact, the story of events experienced by the narrator is less important than is the portrait she offers of herself in action. Organized in themes rather than along a narrative line, the self-portrait is constructed through a series of “reminders, returns, superimpositions, […]

Pierre Guimond, Sept villes – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Pierre Guimond

[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal Du 24 octobre au 1er décembre 1996

Jeune photographie 1996, Fuite et repaire, second volet – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle

[Spring 1997] Dazibao, Montreal November 14 – December 15, 1996 Photographic images have more to do with ideas and impressions than with their material contingencies. Truism? At this point in time, yes. Nonetheless, the notion of photography as thought, as opposed to document, was served up as one of the main discourses in the second […]

Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present – Manon Gosselin

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Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Édité par Liz Heron et Val Williams, Durham, Duke University Press, 1996, 521p., 46 illus. n. et b.

Photographie française, Parcours contemporains – Marcel Blouin

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Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. AFAA, Club d’investissement média, Interactive Fiction, Paris, 1996.

Authenticity

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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 […]

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Valeur d’échange de l’authenticité – Michaël Lachance

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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.

Arnaud Maggs, Notification – Russell Keziere, Convergence sans coïncidence

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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 […]

P.M. Hoblargan, Premier album 1855-1885 et Dernier album 1885-1923 – Juliet Hotbridge

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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 […]

Alain Laframboise, Stilleven – Jocelyne Lupien, L’inquiétante étrangeté des objets immobiles

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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 […]

Dérision & raison – Marcel Blouin

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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.

Bill Vazan, Jumpgates, An Overview of Photoworks, 1981-1995 – Robert Legendre

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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

Richard Baillargeon – Jennifer Couëlle

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 […]

Benoît Aquin, Haïti chérie – Mona Hakim

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

Objectif corps – Jennifer Couëlle

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

CV40

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Authors: Franck Michel

[Fall 1997] by Franck Michel Since its inception, CVphoto has favoured new currents in its choice of both artists and writers. In fact, we feel that a magazine dedicated to contemporary photography should provide some recognition to young artists and writers. And so, this year, our participation in LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO À MONTRÉAL […]

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Me, my Grandmother, the Object, and the Others – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle

[Fall 1997] by Jennifer Couëlle An exhibition whose objective is to present the work of young and not so young, but above all relatively unknown artists raises expectations – if not particularly with regard to specifics of the works presented, then certainly with regard to what we could call trends. It is an exercise not […]

Sara Angelucci, Evidence of Her Disappearance – Pierre Blache

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Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Sara Angelucci

[Fall 1997] Sara Angelucci was born in Guelph, Ontario, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts; she is currently studying for a master’s degree in visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. For the past several years, her multimedia works, which include photography, have explored the notion of […]

Dolores Baswick, The Transitional Place – Pierre Blache

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Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Dolores Baswick

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Dolores Baswick has been working as a commercial photographer for almost twenty years. She studied at Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, in Oakville, Ontario, from 1976 to 1978, which enabled her to find work in corporate and advertising photography. In 1991, she registered at the Emily Carr College […]

Charles Bergeron, Nulles parts – Pierre Blache

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Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Charles Bergeron

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache A native of La Tuque, Quebec, Charles Bergeron studied visual arts at Université Laval, Quebec City, and Université du Québec à Montréal. He currently lives in Montreal. Trained mainly in sculpture and installation, he only recently discovered the possibilities offered by photography. His photographic “centrings” (his term) are used for […]

Allan Edgar, La Marque – Mark of the Hand – Pierre Blache

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Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Allan Edgar

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache A native British Columbian, Allan Edgar has a fine-arts degree from Camosun Visual Arts College in Victoria and currently works and lives in Montreal. He works directly on large-format black-and-white negatives and on his final proofs, using, among other things, selective toning, varnishes, and abrasives. The result is very large […]

Ethan Eisenberg, Holyland: from the Time of the Peace Process – Pierre Blache

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Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Ethan Eisenberg

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Ethan Eisenberg has a master’s degree in fine arts (photography) from Concordia University, Montreal. He currently lives in Toronto, where he has been a freelance photographer since 1993. For the last three years, he has been involved in a documentary photography project in the heart of the occupied territory of […]

Janieta Eyre, Incarnations – Pierre Blache

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Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Janita Eyre

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Janieta Eyre studied photography at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, and has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto. She lives and works in Toronto. Her work mixes fiction, history, culture, and memory in symbolically charged portraits. Reality loses its footing in these disturbing scenes, in […]

Xuân-Huy Nguyen, Compositions – Pierre Blache

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Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Xuân-Huy Nguyen

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache A Montrealer of Vietnamese origin, Xuân-Huy Nguyen earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts (photography major) from Concordia University. With Compositions, Nguyen casts a critical eye on Quebec photography, which he feels is distant and bland. Appropriating images made by well-known photographers, he plays with irony and irreverence to shake […]

Mia Weinberg, Fractured Legacy – Pierre Blache

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Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Mia Weinberg

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Mia Weinberg has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, where she lives. Her artistic practice revolves around three axes: the notion of cultural displacement (diaspora), links between generations, and the influence of identity. In Fractured Legacy, she examines the […]

Loren Williams, Cabinet de curiosités – Pierre Blache

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Authors: Pierre Blache | Artists: Loren Williams

[Fall 1997] by Pierre Blache Born in Creston, British Columbia, Loren Williams studied photography at David Thompson University, B.C., and at Concordia University, Montreal. For several years, her work has been closely tied the “found objects” that she collects and arranges according to a personal taxonomic system. In this context, she is interested in the […]

Lectures – Manon Gosselin

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Book Reviews
Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Fall 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Michael Ondaatje, Coming through Slaughter, Toronto, Anansi, 1976, 156 p. Peter Galassi & Sherry Turner DeCarava, Roy DeCarava : A retrospective, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1996, 280 p. Milt […]

John Max – Serge Allaire

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Serge Allaire | Artists: John Max

[Fall 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox, du 20 mars au 20 avril 1997

Jean-Luc Moulène – Jennifer Couëlle

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Jean-Luc Moulène

[Fall 1997] Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris April 25–June 22, 1997 “The historian, like the camera, always lies.” In discussing history’s inevitable inaccuracies, historian Norman Davies recalls how the impossible task of the historian has been likened to that of the photographer. The former must collate as many sources as possible in […]

CV41

Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel

[Winter 1997-1998] by Franck Michel As I was writing this editorial, I learned that Claude Thibeault, curator of the photography collection at the Musée du Québec, has lost his job. Four years ago, the Musée du Québec set up a collection dedicated exclusively to photography and appointed Mr. Thibeault to run it, showing its desire […]

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  [Winter 1998] EDITORIAL FOCUS PORTFOLIOS EXHIBITIONS READINGS

On the Dissipation of the Authentic – Francine Dagenais

Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Essays
Authors: Francine Dagenais

[Winter 1997-1998] by Francine Dagenais Authenticity as it relates to representation has always been associated with the concept of essence circumscribed, at least in part, by its opposite, non-essence. We have established, quite logically, marked differentiations between essence, purity, truth, and uniqueness, on the one hand, and fusion, hybridity, compromise, and multiplicity, on the other. […]

Georges Rousse – Marie-Josée Jean, Georges Rousse: dévoilement

Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Georges Rousse

[Winter 1997-1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Jocelyne Alloucherie – Gary Michael Dault, Jocelyne Alloucherie: Les Occidents

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Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie

[Winter 1997-1998] by Gary Michael Dault She wanders the streets of twilight cities, Jocelyne Alloucherie tells me, Montreal and her native Quebec City, yes, and also the early-evening cities of Europe. She wanders, flâneuse, with a camera, exploring, as the cities turn haptic in the diminishing light and thickening darkness, the absorbing demineralization of a […]

Eugénie Shinkle – Céline Mayrand

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Authors: Céline Mayrand | Artists: Eugénie Shinkle

[Winter 1997-1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary With her exacerbated sensitivity and exposed emotions, Eugénie Schinkle draws us into the whirlpool of her febrile energy. She leads us to think of the photographic act as a form […]

Immatérialités et documents, Le Mois de la photo à Montréal – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 41 - AUTHENTICITY 2 | Exhibition reviews

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. septembre 1997

The Dead – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle

[Winter 1997-1998] Centre des arts Saidye Bronfman, Montréal Du 11 septembre au 26 octobre 1997 Nobuyoshi Araki, Krass Clement, Donigan Cumming, Hans Danuser, Sue Fox, Leslie Hakim-Dowek, Louis Jammes, Maxime Jourdan, Rudolf Schäfer, Bastienne Schmidt, Andres Serrano, Clare Strand, Annet van der Voort, Nick Waplington, Belinda Whiting, Neil Winokur, Thomas Wrede, Franco Zecchin et Xavier […]

John Willett, Heartfield contre Hitler – Manon Gosselin

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Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Winter 1997-1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Hazan, coll. «Lumières», 1997, 198 pages 4” x 6”, 128 reproductions photographiques, 19,95$ traduit de l’anglais par Dominique Lablanche

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Authors: Franck Michel

[Spring 1998] by Franck Michel The Internet, that network of networks, is now a part of daily life for many of us; we surf the ’Net looking for things or just for entertainment. For artists, this communications tool comprises a new area of exploration with immense potential. Some use it as the main support for […]

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[Spring 1998]

Lettre d’un égaré – Anne Cauquelin

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Authors: Anne Cauquelin

[Spring 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Gerald Van Der Kaap

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Artists: Gerald Van Der Kaap

[Spring 1998] KaapEngine (Prototype), ca. 1996 http://www.stedelijk.nl/capricorn/øøkaap/start.html Gerald Van Der Kaap lives and works in the Netherlands. His works have appeared in many museums, galleries, and contemporary art biennales throughout the world, and been widely published. He is currently working on transforming a new waste incinerator near the town of Enschede, the Netherlands, into a […]

Nathalie Caron

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Artists: Nathalie Caron

[Spring 1998] Nathalie Caron was born in Montreal. A multidisciplinary artist, she is a poet, photographer, and actor. Her work has been exhibited in a number of galleries, art centres, and museums in Quebec and Europe. Among her most recent exhibitions are Les Personnes, produced in collaboration with video artist Charles Guilbert and presented in […]

Petra Mueller

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Artists: Petra Mueller

[Spring 1998] Petra Mueller lives and works in Montreal. In 1992, she earned a master’s degree in fine arts from Concordia University, and she is currently teaching in a course on media and technology in Concordia’s communications department. Her work has been exhibited in Montreal and throughout Canada over the last number of years, and […]

Trois fois Trois Paysages : l’année photographique à Québec – Daniel Béland

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Authors: Daniel Béland

[Spring 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Du 3 octobre 1997 au 31 mai 1998 Événement organisé par le centre VU, Québec

De fougue et de passion – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Emmanuel Galland

[Spring 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 17 octobre 1997 – 4 janvier 1998

Raymonde April, Les Fleuves tranquilles – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Raymonde April

[Spring 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 de Joliette 21 septembre 1997 – 4 janvier 1998

Pierre Barboza, Du photographique au numérique. La parenthèse indicielle dans l’histoire des images – Christine Desrochers

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[Spring 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, l’Harmattan, coll. «Champs visuels», 1996, 269 pages.

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Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Editorial
Authors: Franck Michel

[Summer 1998] by Franck Michel During a recent trip abroad, I had an opportunity to meet with a number of photography specialists, including publishers from various countries. These meetings enabled me to take stock of the state of contemporary-photography magazines throughout the world. The situation is not wonderful. Over the last two years, many of […]

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Editorial
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, […]

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[Fall 1998]

L’autofiction – Régine Robin

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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

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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

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[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

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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 […]

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[Spring 1999]

Assujettir – Sylvain Campeau

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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.