Lynne Cohen, Cover – Stephen Horne

Ciel variable 84 – INHABITED | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Stephen Horne | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Spring 2010] Lynne Cohen Cover Cherbourg-Octeville : Le point du jour, 2009, 142 pp., col. ills. Bilingual text Cover, recently put out by the French publisher Le Point du Jour, presents the work of Montreal-based photographer Lynne Cohen. Cohen began photographing domestic interiors and has been pursuing a documentary-style description of institutional interior spaces for […]

Recent Publications – Anne Marie St-Jean Aubre

Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre

[Fall 2009] You can read the bilingual article by switching over to the French version of this page : CV83 – Ouvrages reçus. By Anne Marie St-Jean Aubre Reviewed books: Martin Désilets, Le grand voyage, Longueuil, Plein sud, 2007, 87 p., ill. coul. Texte bilingue (français et anglais). Nicholas Pye & Sheila Pye, Toronto: Artcore/Fabrice […]

SAGAMIE, Éditions d’art – Céline Dion

Ciel variable 81 - MADE IN CHINA | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Céline Dion

[Spring 2009] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Publications J’ai VU, Parutions récentes – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Darkroom, Michel Campeau – Olivier Asselin

Ciel variable 79 - COLOURS OF THE CITY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Olivier Asselin | Artists: Michel Campeau

[Summer 2008] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Michel Campeau Martin Parr (ed.), Nazraeli Press, 2007, 80 pp.

Martha Langford, Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art – Niki Lambros

Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Martha Langford, Niki Lambros

[Fall 2008] by Niki Lambros The experience of reading the latest book by Martha Langford is strangely medieval; it’s a Cappelanasian compendium, an Ars Memoriae Contemporaria Photographia. Beckett is found on a single page with philosopher Avishai Margalit and St. Augustine; Benjamin, Penelope, and Proust in the same sentence. Drawing from literature, art history and […]

Le flâneur et l’allégorie, Essai sur la photographie de Charles Gagnon – Elitza Dulguerova

Ciel variable 77 – CULTURAL TOURISM | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Elitza Dulguerova, Olivier Asselin | Artists: Charles Gagnon

[Fall 2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Montréal, Dazibao, collection « Études », 2006, 134 p.

Recent Publications – Jean-François Bélisle

Ciel variable 76 - MAPPING | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Jean-François Bélisle

[Summer 2007] Image and Inscription: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Photography [Robert Bean, ed.] (essays by Marie-Josée Jean, Blake Fitzparick, Robin Metcalfe, Carol Williams, Robert Enright, Vid Ingelevics, Lynne Bell, Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher, Stephen Horne, and Robert Bean). Toronto: Gallery 44 and yyz Books, 2005. English texts. 232 pp., 121 colour and 37 […]

Documentary Now! – Vincent Bonin

Ciel variable 74 - LOGOS | Book Reviews, Readings

[Winter 2006-2007] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Point & Shoot, Performance and Photography – Anna Carlevaris

Ciel variable 72 - PHOTO PERFORMANCE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Anna Carlevaris | Artists: Diana Nemiroff, Doyon/Demers, Jan Peacock, Karen Henry, Rebecca Shneider

[Summer 2006] Point & Shoot Performance and Photography edited by France Choinière et Michèle Thériault Éditions Dazibao 2005 The latest in Galerie Dazibao’s series of publications on “hybrid” photographic practices introduces a timely subject: the relationship between photography and performance in Canadian art. Presented from both historical and theoretical perspectives, the collection of writings attempts […]

Arborealis. Thaddeus Holownia – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Thaddeus Holownia

[Spring 2006] Arborealis Thaddeus Holownia Anchorage Press 2005 The panoramic format in photography simultaneously poses delicate problems and offers sumptuous opportunities. The problems tend to centre around compositional matters – the way that the image, often more than twice as wide as it is high, is usually informed either by a conventional recourse to the […]

Controlled Disturbance, Donigan Cumming – Vincent Bonin

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews, Readings

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Controlled Disturbance, Donigan Cumming Montréal, Vidéographe Coffret DVD 2005

Feintes_ doutes + fictions – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews, Readings

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Feintes_ doutes + fictions Réflexions sur la photographie numérique Québec, éditions J’ai VU 2005

Covering the Real – Vincent Lavoie

Ciel variable 71 - IMAGE WORLD | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Vincent Lavoie | Artists: Martha Rosler

[Spring 2006] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Covering the Real Art and the Press Picture from Warhol to Tillmans Kunstmuseum Basel DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag 2005

Peter MacCallum : Material World – Gary Michael Dault

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Peter MacCallum

[Fall 2005] Peter MacCallum:Material World YYZ Books and Museum London 2004 Since the late 1960s, Toronto photographer Peter MacCallum has been devoting a great deal of his time to documenting the work of other visual artists. It has been a long, exacting sojourn in alternate sensibilities that might well have exhausted anyone less determined than […]

David Tomas : A Blinding Flash of Light – Pavel Pavlov

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Pavel Pavlov | Artists: David Tomas

[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. David Tomas:A Blinding Flash of Light Photography Between Disciplines and Media Dazibao 2004

Emmanuelle Léonard : Un livre de photographies – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Emmanuelle Léonard

[Fall 2005] Emmanuelle Léonard : Un livre de photographies Montréal, Occurrence 2005 Emmanuelle Léonard has exhibited a growing body of work since 1996, steadily evolving into a contemporary photographer whose next project is eagerly anticipated. Her complex images not only explore the theoretical terrain between photographer, subject, and viewer, but also serve to disentangle pervasively […]

André Rouillé : La photographie – Vincent Lavoie

Ciel variable 69 – BEHOLDING THE CITY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Vincent Lavoie

[Fall 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. André Rouillé : La photographie Paris, Gallimard 2005

Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Autoportraits dans la photographie canadienne contemporaine Éditions J’ai Vu, collection L’opposite, Québec, 2004, 111 p.

Le troisième œil. La photographie et l’occulte – Bernard Lamarche

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Bernard Lamarche | Artists: Édouard Isidore Buguet, Eugène Thiebault

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Le troisième oeil. La photographie et l’occulte Clément Chéroux, Andreas Fischer, Pierre Apraxine, Denis Canguilhem, Sophie Schmit Paris, Gallimard, 2004, 287 p.

Photography. Crisis of History – Hélène Samson

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Hélène Samson, Joan Fontcuberta

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Photography. Crisis of History sous la direction de Joan Fontcuberta, Barcelone, Actar, 2004, 253 p.

Michael Snow: Digital Snow – Mario Côté

Ciel variable 67 - STILL MOVING | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Mario Côté | Artists: Michael Snow

[Spring 2005] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Michael Snow: Digital Snow Collection Anarchives Collection Anarchives (sous la direction d’Anne-Marie Duguet) Paris, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002

Exposer la photographie – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 65 - PORTRAITS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Mona Hakim

[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

FAKING DEATH Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination – Hélène Samson

Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Hélène Samson

[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Penny Cousineau-Levine McGill-Queen’s University Press Montréal/Kingston 2003

Maintenant. Images du temps présent – Serge Allaire

Ciel variable 64 - TABLEAUX | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Serge Allaire, Vincent Lavoie | Artists: Dennis Adams

[Summer 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maintenant. Images du temps présent sous la direction de Vincent Lavoie Le Mois de la photo à Montréal 2003, 320 p.

Jocelyne Alloucherie Glissements – Suzanne Paquet

Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Suzanne Paquet | Artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie

[Spring 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sylvain Campeau (dir.) Fondation J. Armand Bombardier Valcourt, 2003, 97 p.

Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 63 - PERSONA | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Johanna Mizgala

[Spring 2004] Earle, Edward W., et al., eds. (New York: International Center for Photography and Göttigen: Steidl Publishers, 2003). ICP Exhibition dates: 12 September–30 November 2003. The International Center for Photography offered its first foray into the proliferation of international art festivals with its recent exhibition, Strangers. It is somewhat surprising that New York does […]

Livres reçus – Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Jacques Doyon | Artists: Mireille Loup, Raymonde April

[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Marc Trivier, Le paradis perdu Yves Gevaert éditeur et le Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Bruxelles, 2001, 192 p. Raymonde April, L’eau renversée avec Patrick Coutu, Charles Guilbert, Serge Murphy, […]

Dominique Baqué, Mauvais genre(s). Érotisme, pornographie, art contemporain – Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Jacques Doyon

[Summer 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Éditions du Regard, Paris, 2002, 200 p., 100 illustrations

Martha Langford, Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums – Cheryl Simon

Ciel variable 58 - NUDES AND PORTRAITS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Cheryl Simon

[Summer 2002] Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001, 241 p. Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums is a remarkable book. Distinguished not only by its range and depth, but by the passionate commitment of its researcher, the publication concludes a ten-year investigation into the oral dimensions of amateur photography. Primarily concerned with […]

Vincent Lavoie, L’instant-monument. Du fait divers à l’humanitaire – Guy Bellavance

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Guy Bellavance

[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dazibao, 2001

Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Corps de lumière / Bodies of Light – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 57 – CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

[Spring 2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Axe Néo-7 art contemporain, Hull, 2002 89 p. (41 ill. n. et b.)

Javier Vallhonrat, Obras, 1995-2001 – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Javier Vallhonrat

[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Édition Cultural Rioja, La Rioja, 2001 110 p. (46 ill. coul., 19 ill. n. et bl.)

No man’s land, Les photographies de Lynne Cohen – Catherine Pomparat

Ciel variable 56 - MAKING WORLDS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Catherine Pomparat | Artists: Lynne Cohen

[Winter 2001-2002] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Texte de Ann Thomas, entretien avec Lynne Cohen Éditions Thames & Hudson, Paris, 2001, 160 p. (120 photos)

Joan Fontcuberta, Volte-face. À l’envers de la science, les leçons de l’histoire – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 55 – BOUNDARIES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Joan Fontcuberta

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Le Cairn, Centre d’art, et les Éditions Images en manœuvres Digne et Marseille, 2000, 117 p.

Terrains vagues / Unspecified, Œuvres de Geoffrey James, Alain Lefort, Emmanuelle Léonard et Suzanne Paquet – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 54 - GARDENS-LANDSCAPES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Alain Lefort, Emmanuelle Léonard, Geoffrey James

[Spring 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Textes de Lise Lamarche et Guy Mercier Éditions J’ai vu, collection L’opposite, Québec, 2000, 112 p. (107 ill. n. et bl.)

Fiction ou d’autres histoires de la photographie – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 53 - IDENTITIES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Sylvain Campeau

[Winter 2000-2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Éditions Dazibao, Collection les essais Montréal, 2000, 206 p. (français/anglais)

Michel Lamothe, Même les cigales dormaient – Bernard Lamarche

Ciel variable 52 - EVERYDAY OBJECTS | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Bernard Lamarche | Artists: Michel Lamothe

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage – Martha Langford

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Diana Thorneycroft, Martha Langford

[Summer 2000] Meeka Walsh, editor, with contributions by Mary Ann Caws, Robert Enright, and Vicki Goldberg Winnipeg: Bain & Cox Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage is the first major book by the Winnipeg artist whose psychic explorations have been seen and much discussed in Canada for over a decade. All of Thorneycroft’s […]

Dominique Baqué, La photographie plasticienne. Un art paradoxal – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christine Desrochers, Dominique Baqué

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, éditions du Regard, 1998, 326 pages.

Edmond Couchot, La technologie dans l’art. De la photographie à la réalité virtuelle – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 50 - APPROACHING THE PLACE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christine Desrochers, Edmond Couchot

[Spring 2000] This text was originally published in French. No translation is available. Edmond Couchot, Nîmes, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon coll. Rayon Photo, 1998, 271 pages.

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 1999, Le souci du document – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 49 - (THE OBJECT) | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christine Desrochers

[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction de Pierre Blache, Marie-Josée Jean et Anne-Marie Ninacs, publié par Vox, centre de la diffusion de la photographie et Les 400 coups, Montréal, 1999, 233 pages.

Man Ray. La photographie à l’envers – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christine Desrochers | Artists: Man Ray

[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction d’Emmanuelle de l’Écotais et Alain Sayag, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou/Seuil, avril 1998, 260 pages.

La Face, un moment photographique – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 46 - THE SUBJECT, THE AUTOPORTRAIT | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christine Desrochers

[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction de France Choinière et Yves O’Reilly, Oxford, Dazibao, les essais. 1998.

Graham Clarke, The Photograph – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christine Desrochers

[Fall 1998] This text was originally published in French.You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Oxford, Éditions Oxford University Press, Collection History of Art, 1997, 247 pages.

Françoise Marquet, André Derain et la photographie – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 44 - THEATER OF REALITIES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christine Desrochers

[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Éditions Ides & Calendes, Collection Polychrome, 1997, 93 pages.

Édouard Pontremoli, L’excès du visible. Une approche phénoménologique de la photogénie – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christine Desrochers

[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Éditions Millon, Collection Krisis, 1996, 187 pages. 39.00$

La Photographie du 20ème siècle, Musée Ludwig de Cologne – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 43 - TERRITORY AND LANDSCAPE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christine Desrochers

[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Éditions Taschen, Allemagne, 1996, Avant-propos de Mark Scheps, 760 pages. 39.95$

Pierre Barboza, Du photographique au numérique. La parenthèse indicielle dans l’histoire des images – Christine Desrochers

Ciel variable 42 - AUTHENTICITY 3 | Book Reviews, Readings

[Spring 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, l’Harmattan, coll. «Champs visuels», 1996, 269 pages.

Lectures – Manon Gosselin

Ciel Variable 40 - THE UPCOMING GENERATION | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Fall 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Michael Ondaatje, Coming through Slaughter, Toronto, Anansi, 1976, 156 p. Peter Galassi & Sherry Turner DeCarava, Roy DeCarava : A retrospective, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1996, 280 p. Milt […]

Bill Vazan, Jumpgates, An Overview of Photoworks, 1981-1995 – Robert Legendre

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Bill Vazan

[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Bill Vazan et John K. Grande Peterborough, The Art Gallery of Peterborough, 1996

Dérision & raison – Marcel Blouin

Ciel variable 39 - AUTHENTICITY 1 | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Marcel Blouin | Artists: Adàl

[Summer 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Charleroi, Musée de la Photographie, 1997, 255 pages.

Photographie française, Parcours contemporains – Marcel Blouin

Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Marcel Blouin

[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. AFAA, Club d’investissement média, Interactive Fiction, Paris, 1996.

Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present – Manon Gosselin

Ciel variable 38 - DESIRE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Édité par Liz Heron et Val Williams, Durham, Duke University Press, 1996, 521p., 46 illus. n. et b.

Mireille Baril, Ces chambres que l’on croit obscures – François Dion

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Mireille Baril

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Montréal, Éditions Nicole Gingras, 1996, 44 p. Disponible chez Artexte.

Elizabeth A. Brown, Brancusi photographe / Anne-Françoise Penders, Brancusi, la photographie ou l’atelier comme «groupe mobile» – Manon Gosselin

Ciel variable 37 - THE PLACE | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Elizabeth A. Brown, Paris, Assouline, coll. «La mémoire de l’art», 1995, 79 p., 56 illustrations noir et blanc Anne-Françoise Penders, La Lettre Volée, 1995, 58 p., 12 illustrations noir et blanc

Pierre Fátúmbi Verger, Dieux d’Afrique – François Dion

Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: François Dion

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris, Éditions Revue Noire, 1995, 416 p. Disponible chez Olivieri-Musée ou chez DPLU.

La Photographie en France, textes et controverses : une anthologie 1818 -1871 – Manon Gosselin

Ciel variable 36 -"POETIC" PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Fall 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sous la direction d’André Rouillé, Paris, Macula, 1989, 543 p., illus., 80,00$.

Réal Lussier & Olivier Asselin, L’Effet cinéma – Marc J. Léger

Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Marc J. Léger | Artists: Olivier Asselin, Réal Lussier

[Summer 1996] Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 1995, 58 pp. Reproductions in black and white and colour. The catalogue L’Effet cinéma, addendum to the recent exhibition of Canadian, American, and European artists, outlines some of the theoretical issues that emerge from a consideration of the presence of cinematographic elements in contemporary art. As the doubly […]

Sylvain Campeau, Chambres obscures : photographie et installation – Manon Gosselin

Ciel variable 35 - DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Manon Gosselin, Sylvain Campeau

[Summer 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sylvain Campeau, Chambres obscures : photographie et installation, Laval, Éditions Trois, 1995, 288 pages.

Discovering the Secrets of Monsieur Pippin, F.R.A.C. Limousin – John Zeppetelli

Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: John Zeppetelli

[Spring 1996] Discovering the Secrets of Monsieur Pippin ISBBN 2 908257 17 3. Published on the occasion of Steven Pippin’s exhibition Les Coopérateurs at F.R.A.C. Limousin 1995 Ascribing mythic points of origin to an artist’s body of work has a dubious history. It follows that Steven Pippin’s childhood initiation into the elaborate rituals of processing […]

WODICZKO (Krzysztof). Art public, art critique. Textes, propos et documents – Marc J. Léger

Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Marc J. Léger | Artists: Krzysztof Wodiczko

[Spring 1996] Compiled by Marie-Anne Sichère, translated from English by Michelle Herpe-Voslinsky and from Polish by Wojciech Kolecki. École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1995, 342 pp., 140 ill. This newly edited publication in the “Écrits d’artistes” series makes available a number of translated articles and statements written by the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. The opening […]

Martin Jay, Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth Century French Thought – Manon Gosselin

Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Manon Gosselin

[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Berkeley (Californie), University of California Press,1993, 632 p.

Bertrand Carrière, Témoin de l’ombre – Robert Legendre

Ciel variable 34 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Robert Legendre | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Spring 1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Montréal, Éditions Les 400 coups, coll. «Images», 1995.

Tim Rollins, Art Works – Karen Wong

Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Karen Wong | Artists: Timothé Rolin

[Winter 1995-1996] New York, Art Works/The Education Project, 1993 19 x 17 cm, 60 pp., 35 ill. (19 col.), $21.00. English. The Education Project (TEP) has as its mandate to educate inner-city youths in the fields of film, video, and photography, with an emphasis on self-expression and technical training. Format: 20 x 24 inches. Colour. […]

Lectures – Manon Gosselin

Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Manon Gosselin

[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. Mark Lewis : Public Art, Photographs and Projects, Johanne Lamoureux, Andrew Payne, Mark Lewis et al., Vancouver, The University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, 1994 135 p., 109 ill., 25×20 […]

Tim Rollins, Art Works

Ciel variable 33 - 001100110110001111001011 | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Karen Wong

[Winter 1995-1996] New York, Art Works/The Education Project, 1993 19 x 17 cm, 60 pp., 35 ill. (19 col.), $21.00. English. The Education Project (TEP) has as its mandate to educate inner-city youths in the fields of film, video, and photography, with an emphasis on self-expression and technical training. Format: 20 x 24 inches. Colour. […]

Terry Atkinson, Jeff Wall Dead Troops Talk – John Zeppetelli

Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: John Zeppetelli

[Fall 1995] Wiese Verlag, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1993 50 pp., 21 ill. (5 col.), $ 28.00 Hijacking large-format transparencies in backlit display cases from advertising, and stealing the meticulous orchestration of detail, lighting, and rehearsal from film production, while also subscribing to the nineteenth-century imperative that the artist should be a peintre de la vie moderne, […]

Nicole Gingras, Les absences de la photographie = The Absence of Photography – Karen Wong

Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Karen Wong

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Cinéma Libre, Montréal, 1994, 23 x 16 cm, 64 p., 53 ill. (I en coul.), 10,00 $.

Philippe Cyroulnik, Michèle Waquant & Michel Enrici, Michèle Waquant – François Dion

Ciel variable 32 - UNTITLED + SUPPLEMENT | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: François Dion | Artists: Michèle Waquant

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1994, 35 x 26 cm, 28 p., 21 ill. (6 en coul.), 25,00 $.

Serge Allaire, Martin Breault, Lise Gagnon et Jean Lauzon, Montréal au XXe siècle. Regards de photographes – Robert Legendre

Ciel variable 31 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Robert Legendre

[Summer 1995] Edited by Michel Lessard, Les Éditions de l’homme, Montréal, 1995 336 pages, 59,95 $. As part of a remarkable series on photography in Quebec, Montréal au XX’ siècle. Regards de photographes is a truly magnificent book. Its foremost quality is that it unites and makes accessible a large number of outstanding photographs presenting […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

Ciel variable 29 - UNTITLED | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christian Liboiron

[Winter 1994-1995] William A. Ewing, The body: Photographs of the human form, San Fransisco, Chronicle Books, 1994, reproductions in black-and-white and colour, $ 39.95 Comprising photographs of diverging nature and purpose, this florilegium of photography of the 19th and 20th centuries shows the representation of the body as a dominating motif. Ewing proposes an archeology […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

Ciel variable 28 - PHOTO, SPECIFICITY, ECLECTISM | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christian Liboiron

[Fall 1994] Serge Clément, Cité fragile, Montréal, Vox Populi, 1992, 60 pp., ill. b. & w., stapled, $30. Over the past two decades, documentary photography has come to be looked upon with a certain amount of uneasiness and mistrust. Time and again it has been disgraced, notably by Martha Rossler and Alan Sekula, who rebuked […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

Ciel variable 27 - PERSONAL DIARIES | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christian Liboiron

[Summer 1994] Bill Brandt Photographs 1928-1983, London, Thames & Hudson, 1993, 192 p., ill. n.et b.,45$ Brandt a été photojournaliste, travaillant principalement, de 1934 à 1951, pour Weekly Illustrated, Lilliput, Picture Post et Harper’s Bazaar, avant d’orienter son travail sur les relations de l’espace et du corps. Son œuvre s’articule donc en projet photographique issu […]

Readings – Christian Liboiron

Ciel variable 26 - DOCUMENTARY | Book Reviews, Readings
Authors: Christian Liboiron

[Spring 1994] Susan Sontag, Sur la photographie Paris, Éd. U.G.E., 1993, collection 10-18, 240 pp., $13.75. Translation of On Photography, New-York, Anchor Books, 1977 For a long while, the Francophone reader has had only a very bad translation of the essays presented in On Photography. Today, Philippe Blanchard offers us a translation that is both […]