Readings

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

Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS | Book Reviews, Readings
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

Ciel variable 124 – SEEING THROUGH IMAGES | Book Reviews, Readings
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

Ciel variable 122 – NIGHT ROUNDS | Book Reviews, Readings
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 […]

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

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Authors: Serge Allaire

[Winter 2022] Montréal, à compte d’auteur, 2021, non paginé By Serge Allaire [Excerpt] Valérian Mazataud’s most recent work takes us on an adventure to the island of Bobel, a huge rock rising out of the Caribbean Sea fifty kilometres off the coast of La Mosquita, one of the last untouched regions on the planet. The […]

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

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Authors: Élisabeth Recurt | Artists: Anne-Marie Proulx

[Winter 2022] Paris, Éditions Loco, 2021, 192 p. By Élisabeth Recurt [Excerpt] Freely inspired by a novel by Anne Hébert,1 Anne-Marie Proulx’s photobook is composed of 125 black-and-white and colour photographs (taken on a 35 mm analogue camera and a cell phone), lines from plays (spoken by the protagonist of the novel, Flora Fontanges), and […]

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

Ciel variable 116 — LANDSCAPES AS MIRRORS | Book Reviews, Readings
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

Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Book Reviews, Readings

[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…