Portfolios

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!…” ⎯ […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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/ […]

France Choinière, Du détournement du dispositif ou de la photographie comme peau mutilée – Paul Breton

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Authors: Paul Breton | Artists: France Choinière

[Fall 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Summary In her approach, France Choinière uses the photographic image as a means to purloin or to appropriate, as something intermediate linked to the conditions or the tendencies of the interpretation. From one series to the next, the works encourage the […]

Benoît Aquin, Un regard libre – Pierre Dessureault

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Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Benoit Aquin

[Fall 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Abstract Benoît Aquin’s images are difficult to classify. They assume all the appearances of documentary photography. Like many photographers born during the sixties, he chose to follow this tradition that characterizes the production of an entire decade. These photographers have refused […]

Claude Baillargeon, La mémoire des ombres – Franck Michel

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Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Claude Baillargeon

[Summer 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

Nicholas Amberg, Et plus touchant encore, visages – Suzie Larivée

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Authors: Suzie Larivée | Artists: Nicholas Amberg

[Summer 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, feuilles photographiées – Sylvie Parent

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Authors: Sylvie Parent | Artists: Roberto Pellegrinuzzi

[Summer 1993] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

Cylla von Tiedemann – Andrée Martin, À la recherche du corps perdu

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Authors: Andrée Martin | Artists: Cylla von Tiedemann

[Spring 1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Lucie Lefebvre – Marie-Lucie Crépeau, Le parti pris des choses

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Authors: Marie-Lucie Crépeau | Artists: Lucie Lefebvre

[Spring 1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Bertrand Carrière – Michel Campeau, La brèche aiguë de l’œil dessous la porte

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Authors: Michel Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Spring 1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Larry Towell – Robert Legendre

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Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Larry Towell

[Winter 1992-1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Alain Paiement, Aberrations optiques

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Authors: Alain Paiement | Artists: Alain Paiement

[Winter 1992-1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Normand Rajotte – Serge Jongué, Archétypes d’après nature

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Authors: Serge Emmanuel Jongué | Artists: Normand Rajotte

[Winter 1992-1993] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.