Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
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. […]
Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
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.
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
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 […]
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
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 […]
Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Portfolios
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.
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Charles Perraton | Artists: Daniel Kieffer
[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract Daniel Kieffer’s photographs constantly transport the viewer from one side of the lens to the other. With his camera at the service of sensation rather than the “beautiful image,” Kieffer […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Ruth Kaplan
[Spring 1996] by Robert Legendre To look directly at Ruth Kaplan’s photographs, one must go beyond the “at first glance” voyeurism induced by curiosity. Instead, one must look closely at these works, which portray a world of tranquillity and peace, imbued with tender sensuality, where time moves slowly. Freed of the constraints of an outdated, […]
Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Franck Michel
[Spring 1996] by Suzie Larivée The garden is an image of the world San for the mountain. Sui for water. The sand becomes water. The stone becomes a mountain. The Japanese garden is a theatre: in transposing a landscape, reducing an existing natural site, it brings together an ancient arrangement of water, stones, sand, hilly […]
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 | 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: 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 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Claude Thibault | Artists: Charles Gagnon, Frederick Simpson Coburn, Serge Clément
[Fall 1995] by Claude Thibault Curator of Photography, Musée du Québec In early 1994, the Musée du Québec decided to create a sector devoted specifically to photography. A number of reasons sparked the adoption of this policy. First, the project fits naturally into its development program in its role of curator of our artistic heritage […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Clara Gutsche, David Miller
[Fall 1995] by Pierre Dessureault Associated curator, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa Since settling in Montreal on their arrival in Canada, Clara Gutsche and David Miller have worked together on many projects, producing a remarkable body of photographic work that portrays the city and its residents. There are few examples of couples in photography […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Randy Koroluk
[Fall 1995] by Mona Hakim Randy Koroluk’s photographs do not lend themselves to being viewed in a contemplative manner. Our eye ceaselessly wanders from plane to plane, finally being propelled in circumvolutions in many of the works. In other cases, our gaze glides along the linear marks of the motifs that stream down from the […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Philippe Dubois | Artists: Michel Lamothe
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Francine Dagenais | Artists: Carol Dallaire
[Fall 1995] by Francine Dagenais Related articles: Portfolio : Carol Dallaire, LE COMPLET BLEU ou l’apparence des choses qui ne sont pas des sons (French only) Article : Carol Dallaire – Marie-Josée Jean, L’image transmuée (French only) The album titled Le complet bleu ou l’apparence des choses qui ne sont pas des sons (The […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Authors: Marie-Josée Jean | Artists: Carol Dallaire
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Related articles: Portfolio : Carol Dallaire, LE COMPLET BLEU ou l’apparence des choses qui ne sont pas des sons (French only) Article : Carol Dallaire – Francine Dagenais, Taking leave […]
Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Portfolios
Artists: Carol Dallaire
[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Related articles: Article 1 : Carol Dallaire – Marie-Josée Jean, L’image transmuée (French only) Article 2 : Carol Dallaire – Francine Dagenais, Taking leave of the focal point
Ciel variable 31 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Andrée Martin | Artists: Frances Robson
[Summer 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. by Andrée Martin Summary The following text reproduces most of Frances Robson’s artist’s statement, which gives readers an over-all view of Robson’s approach to her work. R. L. These photographs were […]
Ciel variable 31 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Sara Hartland-Rowe | Artists: Kelly Lycan
[Summer 1995] by Sara Hartland-Rowe I heard a story a few years ago about a nineteenth-century photographer. His entire body of work consisted of hundreds of glass-plate negatives that no one wanted when he died. Eventually, someone took the glass plates to make walls for a greenhouse. Through exposure to the sun over time, the […]
Ciel variable 31 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Pierre Blache
[Summer 1995] by Jennifer Couëlle At times, it seems that the most haunting images are those that, at first glance, appear to be innocuous – the very type that one would least expect to re-envision repeatedly, as a disturbing dream quietly recurring. Blatantly dramatic imagery is easier to identify and, therefore, to classify and be […]
Ciel variable 30 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Phyllis Katrapani
[Spring 1995] by Robert Legendre I am interested in reinstating in the figurative representation of an object the entire complex system of the impressions it makes upon us in ordinary situations of daily life; that is, the manner in which it shakes our affectivity and the shapes it takes in our memory. ⎯ Jean Dubuffet1 […]
Ciel variable 30 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bill Vazan
[Spring 1995] by Mona Hakim Bill Vazan’s fragmented photographs, one comes to understand the necessity of interrogating the very conditions of photography’s procedures, and consequently, those of vision. Conditions related to what Philippe Dubois adverts to as the “flatness” of the photographic image, an image “reinforced by the monocular nature of the optical device, [and […]
Ciel variable 30 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Artists: Claude-Philippe Benoît
[Spring 1995] The photography of interiors is the business of urban strollers, crossing thresholds to search within, for traces of the occupants’ passage. by Claude-Philippe Benoit In recent years, my projects have begun by paying a visit to various places where power is made manifest and its games, played out. “In its simplest form,” my […]
Ciel variable 29 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
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!…” ⎯ […]
Ciel variable 29 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
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 […]
Ciel variable 29 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
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. […]
Ciel variable 28 - PHOTO, SPECIFICITY, ECLECTISM | Portfolios
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 […]
Ciel variable 28 - PHOTO, SPECIFICITY, ECLECTISM | Portfolios
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 […]
Ciel variable 28 - PHOTO, SPECIFICITY, ECLECTISM | Portfolios
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 […]