Essays

Erres – Guy Sioui Durand

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Authors: Guy Sioui Durand | Artists: Jeffrey Thomas

[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Summary A double artistic meaning is superimposed on the notion of landscape: invented images and real cultural territories. Adopting horizontality as a visual point of reference, Civilisation by Quebecer Ivan Binet and Cold City Frieze by Iroquois Jeffrey Thomas wander nomadically […]

FIVE OBJECT(ION)S from which to begin – Peter Dubé

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Authors: Peter Dubé

[Winter 1999-2000] by Peter Dubé One I clear my mind to walk into an empty room; a triumph of austerity. Carefully hung photographs line the shiny walls. Each frame is carefully positioned in relation to its neighbour, gracefully distanced. The glass atop the paper does not disrupt. Landscapes in soft, though oddly brilliant, colours. A […]

Les axes de la continuité – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement, Carol Dallaire, Loren Williams, Lucie Lefebvre, Nathalie Caron

[Fall 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Interim Report – Martha Langford

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Authors: Martha Langford | Artists: Ariane Thézé, Donigan Cumming, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Serge Clément, Sylvie Readman

[Fall 1999] by Martha Langford Last time (the first time), millennial anxiety was deferred by a strategic announcement from the church fathers: the population’s fears of the apocalypse were premature, for the year to worry about was not 1000, but 1033. Logical enough, and pretty clever, for by then one could expect the people to […]

La Poésie mais après… : Un entretien avec Élène Tremblay – Jennifer Couëlle

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Authors: Jennifer Couëlle | Artists: Élène Tremblay

[Fall 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Out of sight, we need glasses or a picture in our wallet – Sylvie Laliberté

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Authors: Sylvie Laliberté

[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

On the Dissipation of the Authentic – Francine Dagenais

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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. […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

Le silence des agneaux – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary On September 23, 1995, Vox Populi, in collaboration with the Musée d’art contemporain, organized a conference entitled “The Presence of Photography in Museum Collections: Specificity of a Medium and […]

Ginette Bouchard, Floris Umbra – Christian Gattinoni, La défloraison voluptueuse des nouvelles images

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Authors: Christian Gattinoni | Artists: Ginette Bouchard

[Winter 1995-1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Le jeu du temps – Jean-Claude Lemagny (Supplement)

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Authors: Jean-Claude Lemagny

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. A history, a perspective, a place – Pierre Dessureault (Supplement)

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Authors: Pierre Dessureault

[Fall 1995] by Pierre Dessureault A museum is not only the sum of the objects in its collections but the history of an institution and a perspective on a particular area of creative expression. The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, formerly the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada, was established in […]

… d’une certaine tradition – Emmanuelle Léonard et Eugénie Robitaille

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Authors: Emmanuelle Léonard, Eugénie Robitaille

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Fiction – Sharon Harper

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Authors: Sharon Harper

[Fall 1995] by Sharon Harper A certain tendency, a tradition, germinated in Québec several decades ago with the work of John Max, through to that of Raymonde April and Michel Campeau. Recently, the second set of leaves in this growing tradition has started to open itself up to the photographic community and the art-going public. […]

La présence de la photographie dans les collections des musées. Spécificité d’un médium… d’une culture – Marie-Josée Jean (Supplément)

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Authors: Marie-Josée Jean

[Fall 1995] by Marie-Josée Jean Conference and exhibitions co-ordinator Since it was invented, photography has been recognized for the sensitivity and intensity of its formal expression. With the rise of modernism, attention was brought to bear on the ability of photography to crystallize fleeting moments. This ambivalent relationship between the literal and the figurative led […]

Fiction – Robert Legendre

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Authors: Robert Legendre

[Fall 1995] by Robert Legendre The research group formed of Concordia University students directed by Professor Penny Cousineau, some of whose work we are presenting in this portfolio, is composed of Gema Alberto, Marie-Josée Desrochers, Loren Williams, Emmanuelle Léonard, Sharon Harper, Steve Leroux, Eugénie Robitaille, Xuan-Hui Nguyen, Jackie Wexler, Martin Villeneuve, Nicholas Michel, and Yan […]

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