Michael Snow, du lac Clair à La région centrale en passant par le langage – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Michael Snow

There is a veritable cornucopia of essays on, analyses of, and other writings about the work of Michael Snow. Few Canadian artists have been the object of so much critical attention. So, we might wonder what else can be said about him. Obviously, the guy had more than one trick up his sleeve, and his rich and mul­tifaceted oeuvre is still available to be explored over and over. Jean Gagnon is among those who have taken up the challenge – but not without some reservations, as he admits at the end of his 150-page book.

Takuma Nakahira, At the Limits of the Gaze / Nakahira Takuma: Burn-Overflow  – Alexis Desgagnés

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Authors: Alexis Desgagnés | Artists: Takuma Nakahira

A towering figure in Japanese photographic culture starting in the second half of the 1960s, Takuma Nakahira (1938–2015) produced a highly significant body of work. Although he was known mainly for his contribution to the legendary magazine Provoke (1968–69), his work seems to have been quite eclipsed by that of his contemporary, Daido Moriyama (1938–). Both Moriyama’s and Nakahira’s images often evince the are-bure-boke (grainy, blurry, out of focus) photographic aesthetic.

Lucie Rocher, Duologies – Laurent Vernet

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Authors: Laurent Vernet | Artists: Lucie Rocher

In 2024, Lucie Rocher presented two solo exhibitions that flowed from a single artistic impetus. De part et d’autre, at Centre CLARK, in Montreal, then En places et lieux at DRAC, in Drummondville, were characterized as resonant photographic installations, inextricably connected in light of the many dialogues and mirror plays they shared.

Serge Clément et Alexis Desgagnés, Métamorphose – Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alexis Desgagnés, Serge Clément

“Unique” despite a relatively familiar process—a double-sided book meant to be consulted from either end—Métamorphose brings together photographer Serge Clément and poet Alexis Desgagnés. Admiring their “osmosis,” Sylvain Campeau sees in their creative exchange a shared “density,” moving between a “concrete-and-glass jungle” and the figure of the bird within an “overcrowding of emotions.” The publication, he writes, is best appreciated when experienced “by travel through it following paths that veer off.”

Martin Désilets, Matière noire – Jean Pelchat

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Authors: Jean Pelchat | Artists: Martin Désilets

A beautiful and understated book, in Jean Pelchat’s view, Matière noire brings together Martin Désilets’ projects based on the accumulation and layering, on a single surface, of photographs of museum artworks. In his review, Pelchat focuses on this body of work by discussing the essays assembled for the publication, written by Catherine Nichols, Michel Poivert, and Pauline Martin. He notes both the strengths and weaknesses of their reflections, which variously evoke Ad Reinhardt, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and a “particular blur” surrounding well-known paintings.

James Andrew Rosen, Aphasia – Louis Perreault

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Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: James Andrew Rosen

During a convalescence that forced him into a long period of isolation, James Andrew Rosen re-evaluated his own photographic archives. He recontextualized them around the notion of repair and a “slow return to the outside world,” writes Louis Perreault, leading to the book Aphasia. Linked to the “transformative power of photography,” the body of work offers a meditation on impermanence. Enthralled, the critic praises Rosen for capturing the elusive, “this moment in suspension, which would be dissipated by a single movement.”

David Hlynsky, A Focusing Appliance – Kenneth Hayes

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Authors: Kenneth Hayes | Artists: David Hlynsky

For this book alternating images, reflections, and anecdotes, David Hlynsky drew on his lived experience as a photographer, teacher, and father. Neither annals nor a theoretical essay, “the book reads as notes on a life-long captivation by photography . . . [The images] feature much careful observation and a quick visual wit” writes Kenneth Hayes. He invokes a wide range of authors, from Marshall McLuhan to Jonathan Crary, including Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, to explain Hlynsky’s “postmodern, quirky, and highly self-conscious” work.

Sandra Brewster, Blur – Safia Belmenouar

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Authors: Safia Belmenouar | Artists: Sandra Brewster

First presented as an exhibition, Sandra Brewster’s Blur brings out, in book form, the tactile and shifting dimension of the images. “As if it were a flipbook – the portraits begin to dance in my hands” writes Safia Belmenouar. This also reactivates “the very core of Brewster’s approach: to capture identity through its movement, its constitutive instability.” Marked by printing accidents and a lack of sharpness, the work as a whole presents itself as an act of resistance against representations imposed by colonial history.

Michel-Hardy Vallée, Premières planches. Photos de John Max – Fanny Bieth

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Authors: Fanny Bieth | Artists: Michel-Hardy Vallée

This volume devoted to the formative years of photographer John Max, “as his professional status grew” is based on the discovery of previously unseen images that remained at the contact-sheet stage. Beyond offering a return to the 1950s and 1960s, Premières planches pays tribute to work done quietly, sheltered from view. “They reveal the swarm of experience behind the apparent coherence – before the selection and refinement – inscribing images, people, and illustrious moments in the shared continuum made of micro-narratives and multiple social groups,” comments Fanny Bieth.

Serge Tisseron, Le jour où j’ai tué mon frère – Christelle Proulx

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Authors: Christelle Proulx | Artists: Serge Tisseron

[Fall 2025] Le jour où j’ai tué mon frère by Christelle Proulx Marcillac-Vallon, Lamaindonne, 2025, 96 pages [EXCERPT] In this short book, Serge Tisseron reflects on memory, photography, and the generation of images by artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including an anecdote in which he remembers his own past. Tisseron, a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has […]

Bertrand Carrière, Tout ceci est impossible – Franck Michel

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Authors: Franck Michel | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Fall 2025] Tout ceci est impossible by Franck Michel Montréal, Cinémathèque québécoise et Somme Toute, 2025, 312 pages [EXCERPT] Since his earliest days as a photographer, Bertrand Carrière has maintained a close relationship with cinema. He began his career as a set photographer and devoted his first book, Témoin de l’ombre (1995), to that craft. […]

Guy Delisle, Pour une fraction de seconde – Michel Hardy-Vallée

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Authors: Michel Hardy-Vallée | Artists: Guy Delisle

[Fall 2025] Pour une fraction de seconde by Michel Hardy-Vallée Paris, Delcourt, 2024, 202 pages [EXCERPT] For a work to be called a photograph, it must contain at least one image. Add a second one and you have a comic strip. And with a third, you have a film if you make them scroll by […]

Danièle Méaux, Quand la photographie pense la forêt – Claire Moeder

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Authors: Claire Moeder | Artists: Danièle Méaux

[Summer 2025] Danièle Méaux, Quand la photographie pense la forêt by Claire Moeder [EXCERPT] In today’s crisis situation, forests are being reshaped or destroyed, subjected to drastic human interventions and major catastrophes, and so a book on the relationship between photography and forests bears the promise of linking art to an exigent reality. In Quand […]

Reno Salvail, Je suis devenu le volcan – Jérôme Delgado

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Authors: Jérôme Delgado | Artists: Reno Salvail

[Summer 2025] Je suis devenu le volcan by Reno Salvail [EXCERPT] Je suis devenu le volcan is a unique object that can’t be categorized easily. It is part artist book, part retrospective monograph. It alternates, literally, between photographs and contact sheets by Reno Salvail (1947–2023) and analyses, neither solely descriptive nor purely poetic, written by […]

Agence Stock Photo – Sophie Mangado

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Authors: Sophie Bertrand, Sophie Mangado

[Summer 2025] Agence Stock Photo by Sophie Mangado [EXCERPT] In 1987, Robert Fréchette, Jean-François LeBlanc, and Martin Roy founded Agence Stock Photo in Montreal. The three shared a humanist vision of documentary photography and wanted to stay indepen­dent of the large press groups; they took inspiration from agencies such as Magnum and VU. Over Stock’s […]

Soлomiya no. 3 – Érika Nimis

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Artists: Érika Nimis

A magazine founded in the months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Soлomiya addresses a diversity of issues through texts and photography. After reviewing the third issue (2024), Érika Nimis notes that “a tone ranging from hard-hitting articles on the emergency to in-depth reflections on the many challenges raised by the war.”

Sites of Photographic Knowledge – Sophie Bertrand

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Authors: Sophie Bertrand

Taking stock of photography, its themes, its networks, and its perspectives—that’s the aim of a research group called Formes actuelles de l’expérience photographique. After eight years of existence, its reflection sessions have resulted in seven books.

Maxence Croteau, L’infime (codex) – Michel Hardy-Vallée

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Authors: Michel Hardy-Vallée | Artists: Maxence Croteau

In L’infime (codex), a single-copy volume, Maxence Croteau photographed one image of each of the books in a university library on every single shelf. The exhaustiveness of his approach effaces the hierarchy of the gaze, Hardy-Vallée believes, but its materiality is its most interesting aspect.

Isabelle Bonnet et Sophie Hackett, Casa Susanna – Dayna McLeod

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Authors: Dayna McLeod

The book Casa Susanna, and the photography exhibition that it accompanied, looked back at an unusual celebration of femininity that took place in New York State in the 1960s: that of a community of transvestite men, trans women, and non-gender-conforming people.

Mirement/Towering — Marie Perrault

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Authors: Marie Perrault

[Summer 2024] by Marie Perrault Mirement/Towering The book Mirement/Towering continues a reflection based on Geneviève Chevalier’s homonymous exhibition project, which was presented in three parts between 2021 and 2024 at Dazibao (the installations Towering/The Menagerie and Towering/The Herbarium), the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University (Mirement/Trissements), and the Galerie de l’Université du Québec en Outaouais […]

Facing Black Star — Fanny Bieth

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Authors: Fanny Bieth

[Summer 2024] by Fanny Bieth 291,049: that’s how many prints are in the collection of the Black Star photo agency, acquired by Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) in 2005. The Image Centre, a museum dedicated more broadly to the photographic image, was created to receive, conserve, and promote this immense collection. For anyone with […]

Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Jaida Grey Eagle et Casey Riley, In Our Hands – Native Photography, 1890 to Now — Sophie Guignard

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Authors: Sophie Guignard | Artists: Casey Riley, Jaida Grey Eagle, Jill Ahlberg Yohe

[Summer 2024] by Sophie Guignard In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now is the catalogue for a major exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art that featured Indigenous photographers who worked between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. The co-curators guest curator, photojournalist Jaida Grey Eagle (Oglala Lakota); the museum’s associate curator of Indigenous […]

Sylviane Van de Moortele, Femmes photographes – Dix ans de luttes pour sortir de l’ombre — Sophie Mangado

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Authors: Sophie Mangado | Artists: Sylviane Van de Moortele

[Summer 2024] by Sophie Mangado [EXCERPT] “When a feminist is accused of exaggerating, she’s on the right path.” The epigraph announces what is coming. In Femmes photographes. Dix ans de luttes pour sortir de l’ombre, Sylviane Van de Moortele describes the battle fought by women in France against the erasure of their sex in the […]

Photographie contemporaine et anthropocène – Bénédicte Ramade

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Authors: Bénédicte Ramade

[Winter 2024] Bénédicte Ramade Photographie contemporaine & anthropocène Danièle Méaux Paris, Éditions Filigranes, 2022, 288 pages [Excerpt] How do we photograph the hyper-object that is the Anthropocene? How do we capture the geological and atmospheric dimensions of this human-determined epoch, the chronology of which stretches back centuries, according to research on the Capitalocene (Andreas Malm), […]

Documentary Genealogies: Photography 1848–1917 – Jill Glessing

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Authors: Jill Glessing

[Winter 2024] By Jill Glessing Edited by Jorge Ribalta Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia, 2023, 263 pages [Excerpt] Important technologies are designed for and controlled by those holding wealth and power. Photography, as a potent information medium, is one of these. It was developed during the mid-nineteenth century in France and England – Europe’s imperialist heartland […]

New & Worthy — Jérôme Delgado

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Authors: Jérôme Delgado | Artists: Josée Pedneault

[Fall 2023] By Jérôme Delgado [Excerpt] Clément Brochet et Marvin Serandrei, Conversations, sous la direction d’Anick Arsenault et Geneviève Thibault, Matane, Cégep de Matane, 2022, non paginé Josée Pedneault, Contre-jour, Montréal, Free Pony Press, 2022, non paginé [bilingue] Guy Tremblay, À la vitesse que poussent les arbres. Guide de survie en temps de morosité, Montréal, […]

Manifeste pour une post-photographie, Joan Fontcuberta — Nicolas Mavrikakis

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Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

[Fall 2023] By Nicolas Mavrikakis [Excerpt] Manifeste pour une post-photographie Joan Fontcuberta Arles, Actes Sud, 2022, 80 pages The artist, critic, professor, and theoretician Joan Fontcuberta has written a manifesto in which he takes an unvarnished look at issues and, especially, anxieties surrounding how photographs, and the image in general, seem to be changing in […]

African Studies, Edward Burtynsky — Anaïs Castro

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Authors: Anaïs Castro | Artists: Edward Burtynsky

[Fall 2023] By Anaïs Castro [Excerpt] African Studies Edward Burtynsky Göttingen, Steidl, 2022, 208 pages Edward Burtynsky’s most recent book, African Studies, is a visually stunning journey across the second-largest and widely misunderstood continent that is Africa, and the forces of industrialization and globalization that are shaping its diverse landscapes. Burtynsky enlisted esteemed collaborators on […]

Olga Smith, Contemporary Photography in France: Between Theory and Practice — Jill Glessing

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Authors: Jill Glessing | Artists: Olga Smith

[Summer 2023] By Jill Glessing Olga Smith Louvain, Leuven University Press, 2022, 230 pages [Excerpt] France, as a birthplace of photography, dominated surveys of the medium until the early twentieth century. It lost its primacy when the centre of the art world crossed the Atlantic, after the Second World War. Since then, international hegemony has […]

Elena Perlino, Indian Time — Michel Hellman

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Authors: Michel Hellman | Artists: Elena Perlino

[Summer 2023] By Michel Hellman Elena Perlino Paris et New Richmond, éditions Loco et éditions Escuminac, 2022, 176 pages [Excerpt] The expression “Indian time” has a pejorative connotation. It implies that “Indians” lack discipline and a sense of responsibility, in contrast to the supposed self-control of “Whites.” Saying that a person is on Indian time […]

The Mystery of. In conversation with the Sanchez Brothers — Gary Michael Dault

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Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Carlos & Jason Sanchez

[Winter 2023] By Gary Michael Dault Adam Leith Gollner Montréal, Anteism, 2022, 158 p. [Excerpt] This book’s apparently truncated title, The Mystery of – whether chosen by its subjects, photographers and filmmakers (and brothers) Jason Sanchez and Carlos Sanchez, or by the book’s author, Adam Leith Gollner – is as provocatively incomplete (or at least […]

Justine Kurland, Girl Pictures / Highway Kind — Étienne Ardaens

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Authors: Étienne Ardaens | Artists: Justine Kurland

[Winter 2023] Étienne Ardaens Justine Kurland New York, Aperture, 2020, 144 p. / New York, Aperture, 2021, 144 p. [Excerpt] Two photobooks recently published by Aperture provide an opportunity to rediscover the work of Justine Kurland. The series Girl Pictures, featured in a show at the Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery in 2018, appeared in book […]

Tendance Floue, Fragiles — Sophie Bertrand

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Authors: Sophie Bertrand | Artists: Tendance Floue

[Winter 2023] Sophie Bertrand Tendance Floue Paris, éditions Textuel, 2022, 190 p. [Excerpt] Fragiles is the most recent project of Tendance Floue, a French collective founded in 1991 that today comprises sixteen photographers – thirteen men and three women – with varied visual signatures. Although each member practises independently, the collective regularly produces joint projects […]

Sylvain Campeau, Écrans motiles — Daniel Canty

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Daniel Canty

[Fall 2022] By Daniel Canty Écrans motiles Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2021, 280 p. [Excerpt] “Motility.” That’s the idea that Sylvain Campeau has chosen to summon for the title of his most recent book, Écrans motiles. If, like me, you’re wondering about the term, it is borrowed from the life sciences, in […]

Dialogue photographique sur la Route de la soie — Claudia Polledri

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Authors: Claudia Polledri

[Fall 2022] By Claudia Polledri Dialogue photographique sur la Route de la soie Nadar/Payram Paris, Éditions Le bec en l’air, 2021, 112 p [Excerpt] One book, two trajectories, a single “road” and photography: Dialogue photographique sur la Route de la soie is a surprising voyage through space, time, and the history of photography. Iranian photographer […]

Photogenic Montreal: Activisms and Archives in a Post-Industrial City — Cheryl Simon

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Authors: Cheryl Simon

[Fall 2022] By Cheryl Simon Martha Langford and Johanne Sloan (editors) Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021, 368 p. [Excerpt] The spectacular photograph on the cover of Photogenic Montreal: Activisms and Archives in a Post-Industrial City perfectly condenses the themes addressed throughout the book. Made by photojournalist Louise Abbott in the early morning of September 8, […]

Jocelyn Philibert, Metamorphosis of the real — Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Jocelyn Philibert

[Summer 2022] By Mona Hakim. This major monograph on the photographer Jocelyn Philibert covers his production over more than thirty years. We know Philibert for his nocturnal landscapes focusing essentially – one might say obsessively – on the figure of the tree…

Jean Gagnon, Vidéocaméléon — Sylvain Campeau

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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Jean Gagnon

[Summer 2022] By Sylvain Campeau Vidéocaméléon. Chroniques de l’art vidéo au Québec Montréal, Éditions Somme toute, 2021, 239 p. [Excerpt] Let’s start by saying it straight out, without splitting hairs: this book will be highly useful to everyone interested in the visual arts in Canada, and particularly in the emergence of video art in Quebec. […]

Matt Johnston, Photobooks & — Louis Perreault

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Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Matt Johnston

[Summer 2022] By Louis Perreault Photobooks & A critical companion to the contemporary medium Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Pays-Bas, 2021, 210 p. [Excerpt] Much has been written about the effervescence of the photobook as a medium since the early 2000s. The importance of books that retrace the history of the medium – celebrating the genre’s classics and […]

Gregory Halpern, ZZYZX – Louis Perreault

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Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Gregory Halpern

May 18, 2022 [originally published in CV105 in Winter 2017] — In the photography world, the book continues to play an essential role of dissemination. Yet, beyond simply being a tool for promotion of a photographer’s work, the book is seen by many as a creative space on its own…

Valérian Mazataud, liwa mairin, la femme de l’eau — Serge Allaire

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Authors: Serge Allaire

Serge Allaire examines Valérian Mazataud’s liwa mairin, the woman of the water, a photobook exploring the inhabitants of Bobel and their intimate relationship with water and territory.

Anne-Marie Proulx, Le Jardin d’après — Élisabeth Recurt

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Authors: Élisabeth Recurt | Artists: Anne-Marie Proulx

Élisabeth Recurt examines Anne-Marie Proulx’s Le jardin d’après, a photobook inspired by Anne Hébert, exploring memory, urban landscapes, and the living world.

Alexis Desgagnés, Ammoniaque — Ève Dorais

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Authors: Ève Dorais | Artists: Alexis Desgagnés

Offering views of an industrial neighbourhood in the Montreal district of Hochelaga, Ammoniaque elegantly combines the documentary approach – “the importance of the subject and the picture taking,” as Ève Dorais specifies – and the materiality of the photograph through the use of analogue cameras and photosensitive film. In Dorais’s view, Alexis Desgagnés’s “off-axis photographic gaze” and attention to details give rise to an almost-spiritual dimension. Desgagnés – who is also an art historian, curator, and poet –explores words written on a corrugated-iron wall to uncover urban poetry. Similar to Claude Gauvreau’s Exploréen language, the words are imbued with “pain, incongruity, and euphoria.” This is an essential book, Dorais says, because it makes us aware of an urban space that falls between the cracks but is full of humanity, and it “encourages us to reconsider our conceptions of landscape and of beautiful photography.”

La fête : The People Came to Party — Dayna McLeod

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Authors: Dayna McLeod

“A feast for the heart, head, and soul,” is how Dayna McLeod describes La Fête, the perfect book to look at in the context of deprivation and isolation caused by the pandemic. The hundred photographs gathered from a call for submissions from Quebec and Brazilian artists are documentary, portraiture, and candid images. Freely associated but carefully organized, they offer a “gateway to feelings,” “a journey of party places and people,” “party and reverie … that pull on our memories, longing, and fear of missing out.” Although an audio application gives the images a sound environment, the essays give them meaning by teasing out the political momentum of the theme.

Women Street Photographers — Ariane Noël de Tilly

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Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly

Like the photograph appearing on the cover, the book’s intention is obvious: to direct our attention toward a woman who is looking. “That is exactly what Women Street Photographers invites us to do,” writes Ariane Noël de Tilly, “to get to know the work of women photographers and the … events that they have captured in the public space.” Noël de Tilly describes this project, compiled from a series of annual exhibitions with the same title, as offering an overview in one hundred photographs whose rather free association “highlights the great variety of approaches to street photography.” This heterogeneous organization underlines “the happy coincidences linked to our experience of the public space.” Of the two essays included in the book, one evokes the intersection since the nineteenth century of two histories: that of photography and that of the status of women.

Ron Jude — Louis Perreault

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Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Ron Jude

Ron Jude’s photobook “vibrates on the table,” according to Louis Perreault, so utterly does the sensory experience offered overflow the edges of the images. In Perreault’s view, Jude, a fundamental figure in the publishing world, has innovated once again, and he also takes a new direction in his practice: here, the landscape is the subject, the narrative thread of the images is less influential, and the strategy turns to accumulation rather than juxtaposition. 12 Hz is like “a musical composition,” Perreault writes, “each image acting as a track added to the others, each vibrating at a different frequency. Like a composer at the mixing console, Jude adjusts the levels of each track, measuring out the abstraction, the textures, the reproduction of space and place.” The reference to low frequencies in the title suggests that sound wave are forces that shape landscapes, imperceptible movements that permeate the dark-toned images.

Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes — Claudia Polledri

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Authors: Claudia Polledri

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

Rejouer le vivant – Amélie Giguère

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Authors: Amélie Giguère, Anne Bénichou

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

Ouvrages à souligner — Jérôme Delgado

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Authors: Jérôme Delgado | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Geneviève Cadieux, Isabelle Hayeur

[Hiver 2021] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Par Jérôme Delgado (En français seulement)     Buy the issue  

Arles, Les Rencontres de la photographie — Bruno Chalifour

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Authors: Bruno Chalifour

[Summer 2020] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Une histoire française Françoise Denoyelle Paris, Les Rencontres d’Arles / Art Book Magazine 2019, 320 p. (ill. n&b) 50 ans d’histoire Françoise Denoyelle et Sam Stourdzé Paris, La Martinière, 2019, 278 […]

David McMillan — Pierre Dessureault

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Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: David McMillan

[Summer 2020] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Croissance et Dégradation Pripiat et la zone d’exclusion de Tchernobyl David McMillan essai de Claude Baillargeon Göttingen, Steidl, 2019, 262 p., 200 photographies Par Pierre Dessureault (In French only) Buy the […]

Traces of Virgil as a Chalk Giant: Ewa Monika Zebrowski’s Meditations on Cy Twombly — James D. Campbell

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Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Cy Twombly, Ewa Monika Zebrowski

August 11, 2022 [originally published in CV114 in Winter 2020] — By James D. Campbell. Since 2014, noted Canadian artist Ewa Monika Zebrowski has been exploring the universe of artist Cy Twombly on both sides of the Atlantic…

New and Worthy

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[Fall 2019] [Excerpt] David McMillan, Growth and Decay, Göttingen, Steidl Verlag, 2019, 260 p. Guillaume Simoneau, Murder, Londres, Mack, 2019, 96 p. Greg Girard, Tokyo Yokusaka, 1976-1983, Toronto, Magenta Foundation, 2019, 160 p. Louis Perreault, Les affluents, Montréal/Québec, Les Éditions du renard/VU, 2019, 96 p. Kim Waldron, Une autre femme_ Another Woman, New York, Galerie […]

Abendlied, Birthe Piontek — Guillaume Tomasi

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Authors: Guillaume Tomasi | Artists: Birthe Piontek

[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. New York, Gnomic Book 2019, 112 pages Par Guillaume Tomasi (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this issue

New & Worthy

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October 18, 2023 [originally published in CV112 in Summer 2019] — From June 2018 to September 2019, the project The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea is offering a series of exhibitions, publications, and public events in Mississauga, Ontario, based on the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force. Organized by Christine Shaw, director of and curator at the Blackwood Gallery, the undertaking challenges the complexity of the current environmental crisis through the prism of art practices and social, cultural, and political mobilizations…

New & Worthy

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews, Readings

February 15, 2023 [originally published in CV111 in Winter 2019] — This eighty page artists´ bookwork, Berlin Wall. Truro, Nova Scotia, was produced in collaboration with designer Bryan Gee and first presented as part of the installation “The Labour of Commemoration,” at Prefix ICA, in 2017. The authors examine the post-1989 history of a set of six Berlin Wall slabs that found their way to a vacant lot in the centre of Truro, Nova Scotia, in 2000. The book addresses the issue of the absence of post-1989 histories of the Wall, through interviews and newspaper articles…

Clémence Cottard Hachem et Nour Salamé (dir.), Sur la photographie au Liban — Claudia Polledri

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Claudia Polledri

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Martha Langford (dir.), Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World — Erika Wicky

Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Erika Wicky

[Winter 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Kristine Potter, Manifest – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Kristine Potter

[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Guillaume Simoneau, Experimental Lake – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Guillaume Simoneau

[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Vincent Lavoie, L’affaire Capa – François Brunet

Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: François Brunet

August 10, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Mathieu Asselin, Monsanto – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Mathieu Asselin

August 17, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV109 in Summer 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Book Reviews, Readings

April 6, 2021 [originally published in CV108 in Winter 2018] — Photographic books, monographic catalogs and theoretical works, highlighted in Ciel variable 108 – Going Public.

Vincent Delbrouck, Catalogue – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Readings
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Vincent Delbrouck

April 6, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Masahisa Fukase, Ravens – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Masahisa Fukase

September 29, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Thierry Gervais dir., The « Public » Life of Photographs – Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande et Julie-Ann Latulippe

Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Julie-Ann Latulippe, Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande

October 6, 2020 [originally published in French only in CV107 in Fall 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Sarker Protick et Katrin Koenning, Astres noirs – Louis Perreault

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Louis Perreault

May 21, 2020 [originally published in CV106 in Spring 2017] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Le livre photographique : un état des lieux – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 106 - TREES, ICE, AND CLOUDS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Mona Hakim

[Spring-Summer 2017] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris Photo, Offprint et Polycopies par Mona Hakim (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

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Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Book Reviews, Readings

[Winter 2017] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Download this article (Free of charge)

Nicolas Mavrikakis, La peur de l’image – Septembre Tiberghien

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Septembre Tiberghien

January 20, 2020 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Geoffrey Batchen, Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph – Claude Baillargeon

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Claude Baillargeon

January 22, 2020 [originally published in Fall 2016] — Published to coincide with and provide a broader context for a similarly titled exhibition, “Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph” surveys a vital form of image making traditionally relegated to the margins of the medium’s history…

Kate Hutchinson, The Park – James D. Campbell

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Kate Hutchinson

November 6, 2019 [originally published in Spring 2016] — Sometime in the early twenty-third century, a sealed copper box is found interred at the foot of the excavated cross on top of Montreal’s estimable Mount Royal. Once opened, archaeologists and sundry forensic experts find a fulsome sheaf of what seem to be vernacular images…

Bertrand Carrière, Le capteur – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 103 - NATURE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

November 11, 2019 [originally published in CV103 in Spring 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

New and Worthy – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

[Winter 2016] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. par Alexis Desgagnés Download this article (Free of Charge)

Recréer/Scripter, Anne Bénichou (dir.) – Franz Anton Cramer

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Anne Bénichou, Franz Anton Cramer

August 28, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Les paradoxes du détail, Érika Wicky – Daniel Fiset

Ciel variable 102 - FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Daniel Fiset, Erika Wicky

September 4, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

New and Worthy – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

[Fall 2015] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV101 – Ouvrages à souligner. Thierry Gervais (avec la collaboration de Gaëlle Morel), La fabrique de l’information visuelle. Photographies et magazines d’actualité, Paris, Éditions Textuel, 2015, 240 p., ill., fr. Hilde Van Gelder, ed., Allan Sekula: […]

Guillaume Lafleur, Pratiques minoritaires Fragments d’une histoire méconnue du cinéma québécois (1937-1973) – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

June 5, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Joan Fontcuberta, Pandora’s Camera: Photography after Photography – Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

June 10, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

New and Worthy – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

[Spring-Summer 2015] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV100 – Ouvrages à souligner. Antonio Dominguez Leiva, YouTube théorie. Un vertige néobaroque, Montréal, Les Éditions de ta mère, 2014, 112 p., fr. Ola Lanko, Brigiet van den Berg, Nikki Brörmann et al., Ed It: The […]

The Photobook : A History Volume III – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

April 3, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

La manipulation des images dans l’art contemporain – Anne Bénichou

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Anne Bénichou

April 8, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

New and Worthy – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

[Winter 2015] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV99 – Ouvrages à souligner. Donigan Cumming, The Stage, New York, Errata Editions, 2014, 132 pp., Eng. Catherine Tremblay et Véronique Béland, Elles collectionnent des mondes, Montréal, Les Éditions du renard, 2014, 116 p., fr. ; […]

Thierry Gervais (ed.), Dispatch: War Photographs in Print, 1854–2008 – Corina Ilea

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Corina Ilea

January 28, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — Ryerson Image Centre presented the exhibition Dispatch: War Photographs in Print, 1854-2008, curated by Thierry Gervais, and marking the centennial of the First World War. The exhibition was accompanied by a publication that underscores the intricate connection between war and photography, as well as the not-so-innocent mechanisms of representation activated in recording, transmission, and shaping of conflicts in the visual field…

Siegfried Kracauer, Sur le seuil du temps, Essais sur la photographie – Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande

Ciel variable 99 - HABITAT | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande

January 30, 2019 [originally published in CV99 in Winter 2015] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Automne 2014] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV98 – Ouvrages à souligner. The Photobook: A History Volume III, ed. Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, New York: Phaidon Press, 2014, 304 pp. Clément Dirié et Michèle Thériault (dir.), Joana Hadjithomas + Khalil Joreige, Zurich, […]

Chantal Pontbriand, The Contemporary, the Common: Art in a Globalizing World – Michael Frederick Rattray

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Michael Frederick Rattray

November 14, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — The book is a collection of essays on contemporary art history written by Pontbriand between 2000 and 2011 (other than the new writing undertaken to contextualize and draw together the at times disparate essays). It is a personal reflection upon and an example of an early-twenty-first-century sensibility that we experience collectively…

Ariella Azoulay, Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography – Erika Wicky

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Erika Wicky

Novembre 19, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Vera Frenkel – Cheryl Simon

Ciel variable 98 – ABSTRACTION | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Cheryl Simon

November 21, 2018 [originally published in CV98 in Fall 2014] — Vera Frenkel, a monograph published last year by German art book publisher Hatje Cantz, offers the most comprehensive study of this Canadian multidisciplinary artist’s work to date. Remarkable for its reach, the book includes twelve essays focused on nine projects completed over a forty-year span, …

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Spring-Summer 2014] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV97 – Ouvrages à souligner. Par Sonia Pelletier What Is a Photograph?, New York: International Center of Photography, 2013, 256 pp., Eng. Art and The Internet, London, U.K.: Black Dog Publishing, 2013, 224 pp., Eng. Chantal […]

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 96 – PERFORMING FOR THE IMAGE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Winter 2014] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.   Download this article (Free of Charge) Milutin Gubash, rodman Hall Art Centre / Brock University ; Carleton University Art Gallery ; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery ; Southern Alberta Art Gallery ; Musée d’art de Joliette, […]

Visiteurs photographes au musée – Romain Guedj

Ciel variable 96 – PERFORMING FOR THE IMAGE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Romain Guedj

June 20, 2018 [originally published in CV96 in Winter 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Luis Jacob, Seeing and Believing / Tromper l’œil – Emily Falvey

Ciel variable 96 – PERFORMING FOR THE IMAGE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Emily Falvey

June 26, 2018 [originally published in CV96 in Winter 2014] — A substantial overview of the work of Canadian artist Luis Jacob has long been desired. Seeing and Believing, a hefty bilingual catalogue recently published by the British company Black Dog Publishing, proposes to fill this void. Produced in conjunction with a set of three distinct yet interconnected exhibitions organized by the Darling Foundry in Montreal…

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Fall 2013] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Luis Jacob, Tromper l’œil (Londres, R.-U., Black Dog Publishing, 2013, 224 p., fr.) Glamour is Theft: A User’s Guide to General Idea 1969-1978 (Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2013, 256 pp.,Eng.) […]

Picturing Atrocity, Photography in Crisis – Jean-François Thibault

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Jean-François Thibault

April 9, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ariella Azoulay, Civil Imagination, A Political Ontology of Photography – Érika Wicky

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Erika Wicky

April 11, 2018 [originally published in French in CV95 in Fall 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

New and worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Spring-Summer 2013] By Sonia Pelletier Des monographies Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photo­graphy (London UK: Black Dog Publishing; Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2012, 352 pp., Eng.) This publi­cation, which accompanies the eponymous exhibition curated by Daina Augaitis, is the most comprehensive publication devoted to the work of Canadian artist Ian Wallace. Reflecting […]

Mikhael Subotzky, Retinal Shift – Alexis Desgagnés

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Alexis Desgagnés

February 5, 2018 [originally published in French in CV94 in Spring 2013] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Light Years, Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964-1977 – Felicity Tayler

Ciel variable 94 – PUBLIC ART | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Felicity Tayler

February 8, 2018 [originally published in CV94 in Spring 2013] — The title phrase of this catalogue, Light Years, is a pun on an oft-misused term. Although widely thought to refer to a measurement of time, it is actually an astronomic unit measuring the distance travelled by light over one year. What meanings can this term have when applied to a historical survey exhibition of photographic practices around 1970? Aside from the obvious…

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Winter 2013] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Par Sonia Pelletier Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012; edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky, 264 pp., Eng.) Le langage des […]

David Tomas, Live rightly, die, die . . . – Bernard Schütze

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Bernard Schütze

November 8, 2017 [originally published in CV93 in Winter 2013] — Live rightly, die, die…, the book that accompanies the two-part exhibition organized by the artist-curator David Tomas at Dazibao, is no ordinary exhibition catalogue with its requisite visual documentation and explanatory theoretical essay. Live rightly, die, die… does in fact contain ample visuals and a lengthy essay, but instead of cataloguing and contextualizing the exhibition the book is an experimental extension and integral part of the overall Live rightly, die, die… project. The unusual nature of the publication is made immediately apparent as one opens the book and flips to the page facing the title page…

Chantal Pontbriand, Mutations: Perspectives on Photography – Carol Payne

Ciel variable 93 – FORENSICS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Carol Payne

November 13, 2017 [originally published in CV93 in Winter 2013] — Mutations : Perspectives sur la photographie / Perspectives on Photography, the major publication marking the 2011 edition of the Paris Photo biennial exhibition, is an omnibus collection of current thinking about photography theory and recent photo-based art. Edited by Chantal Pontbriand, founder and editor of the now defunct (and still much lamented) Montreal-based journal Parachute…

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 92 – TRUE NORTH | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Fall 2012] Des essais Mutations, perspectives sur la photographie / Perspectives on Photography (Paris Photo, Steidl, France / Allemagne, sous la direction de / edited by Chantal Pontbriand, 2012, 414 p., fr. / angl.) a été publié à l’occasion de la foire Paris Photo et constitue un ouvrage de premier plan sur l’évolution et l’état […]

Martha Langford and John Langford, A Cold War Tourist and His Camera – Peter White

Ciel variable 92 – TRUE NORTH | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Peter White

September 7, 2017 [originally published in CV92 in Fall 2012] — On the one hand, there are the snaps by career civil servant Warren Langford who, in 1963, unaccountably found himself part of domestic and overseas military-civilian familiarization tours of Cold War hot spots.1 On the other hand, there are his daughter Martha, an authority in the scholarly study of vernacular photography, and son John, a political scientist whose expertise includes public sector ethics…

New and worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 91 – OUR WORLD | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Spring/summer 2012] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. New and Worthy Gwenaël Bélanger. Casser l’image (Expression, Centre d’exposition, Musée régional de Rimouski, 2011, n. p., fr. / angl.) Richard-Max Tremblay, Portrait (les éditions du passage, 2011, Montréal, 192 p., […]

Nathalie Boulouch, Le ciel est bleu. Une histoire de la photographie couleur – Érika Wicky

Ciel variable 91 – OUR WORLD | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Erika Wicky

June 14, 2017 [originally published in French in CV91 in Spring 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada – Cheryl Simon

Ciel variable 91 – OUR WORLD | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Cheryl Simon

June 19, 2017 [originally published in CV91 in Spring 2012] — This Is Not a History of Canadian Photography. Less a history of Canadian photography, more a Canadian history told through photography, The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada considers how photographic representation is deployed to shape identity. Co-edited by Carleton University professor Carol Payne and Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography curator Andrea Kunard, the book represents the most extensive contribution to scholarship on Canadian photography in more than twenty years and may be one of the most important.

New and Worthy – Sonia Pelletier

Ciel variable 90 – COLLABORATIONS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sonia Pelletier

[Winter 2012] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.   New and Worthy The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada (edited by Carole Payne, Andrea Kunard, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011, 270 p., angl.) Sylvain Campeau (Chantiers de l’image, Éditions Nota […]

B. Plossu et D. Le Breton, Des millions d’années / F. Nuñez et D. Le Breton, mu-jô – Maxime Coulombe

Ciel variable 90 – COLLABORATIONS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Maxime Coulombe

April 10, 2017 [originally published in French in CV90 in Winter 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ouvrir le document : Enjeux et pratiques de la documentation dans les arts visuels contemporains – Felicity Tayler

Ciel variable 90 – COLLABORATIONS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Anne Bénichou, Felicity Tayler

April 12, 2017 [originally published in CV90 in Winter 2012] — The title of this volume, which translates as “Open the document,” is an imperative: it urges you to unfold the cover, printed in solid gold ink, of a perfect-bound paperback. This materiality suggests that the contents are both precious and brilliant, and that there is urgency in its message…

New and Worthy – Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

Ciel variable 89 - PLACES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

[Fall 2011] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art (Cambridge, MIT Press, 2011, 376 p., angl.) The Dead (Toronto, The Magenta Foundation, 2010, n.p., angl.) Angela Grauerholz. The Inexhaustible image… épuiser l’image (Ottawa, […]

Vincent Lavoie, Photojournalismes : Revoir les canons de l’image de presse – Érika Wicky

Ciel variable 89 - PLACES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Erika Wicky, Vincent Lavoie

January 26, 2017 [originally published in CV89 in 2011] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Charles Gagnon, 4 Films – Christian Roy

Ciel variable 89 - PLACES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christian Roy | Artists: Charles Gagnon

January 31, 2017 [originally published in French in CV89 in 2011] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

New and Worthy – Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

Ciel variable 88 - FACES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

[Spring/Summer 2011] Photography and national history Three books recently received combine photography and national history or national imaginary. Photography and Italy (London: Reaktion Books, 2011, Eng) by Maria Antonella Pelizzari offers a dialogue between the devel- opment of photography as a medium and the political, social, and cultural changes in Italy since its unification in […]

Alfredo Cramerotti, Aesthetic journalism. How to inform without informing – Vincent Lavoie

Ciel variable 88 - FACES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Vincent Lavoie

November 1, 2016 [originally published in Spring 2011] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Suzanne Paquet, Le paysage façonné – Luc Lévesque

Ciel variable 88 - FACES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Luc Lévesque, Suzanne Paquet

November 3, 2016 [originally published in Spring 2011] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Maxime Coulombe, Imaginer le posthumain – Marianne Cloutier

Ciel variable 87 – SERIES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Marianne Cloutier

August 24, 2016 [originally published in French only in Winter 2011] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Susan MacWilliam, Remote Viewing – Pierre Rannou

Ciel variable 87 – SERIES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Pierre Rannou

August 29, 2016 [originally published in French only in Winter 2011] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Benoit Aquin, Far East, Far West – Claude Baillargeon

Ciel variable 86 - PERFORMANCE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Claude Baillargeon | Artists: Benoit Aquin

June 7, 2016 [originally published in Fall 2010] — According to journalist Patrick Alleyn, Aquin’s co-traveller and collaborator of choice, this scourge constitutes “one of the most severe environmental disasters of our time.” In 2006, intending to raise public awareness, the two gained the sponsorship of the Canadian International Development Agency and made the first of three journeys to the affected areas…

Recent Publications – Anne Marie St-Jean Aubre

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

[Printemps 2010] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV97 – Ouvrages à souligner. By Anne Marie St-Jean Aubre Reviewed books: Marie Perrault, Anne Ramsden. La collection et le quotidien, Rimouski, Musée régional de Rimouski, 2007, 55 p., ill. n. et b. et coul. Texte […]