Ciel variable 120 - FIGURES OF AFFIRMATION | Book Reviews
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…
Ciel variable 120 - FIGURES OF AFFIRMATION | Book Reviews
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. […]
Ciel variable 120 - FIGURES OF AFFIRMATION | Book Reviews
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 […]
Ciel variable 105 – MONTREALITIES | Book Reviews
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…
Ciel variable 119 - AGAINST NATURE | Book Reviews
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 […]
Ciel variable 119 - AGAINST NATURE | Book Reviews
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 […]
Ciel variable 118 - EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews
Authors: Ève Dorais | Artists: Alexis Desgagnés
[Fall 2021] Montréal, Les Éditions du Renard, 2021, non paginé By Ève Dorais [Excerpt] In an article in an issue of the magazine Elephant devoted to photography,1 Robert Shore notes that in recent decades photography has striven to assert its own materiality. Indeed, artists have found all sorts of ploys to highlight the medium’s materiality […]
Ciel variable 118 - EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews
Authors: Dayna McLeod
[Fall 2021] Jean-François Prost Publication collaborative Québec, Éditions VU, 2021, 160 pages, français, anglais et portugais By Dayna McLeod [Excerpt] If you’ve missed in-real-life parties, being with people, and exhibitions during the pandemic, La Fête is a feast for the heart, head, and soul. The socially distanced isolation of the pandemic brings a chance to […]
Ciel variable 118 - EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews
Authors: Ariane Noël de Tilly
[Fall 2021] By Ariane Noël de Tilly [Excerpt] The image chosen to illustrate the cover of Women Street Photographers is certainly striking: a detail from Red Upsweep (2019) by B Jane Levine; the photograph is reproduced in its entirety inside the book. The centre of this truncated image is dominated by the head and shoulders […]
Ciel variable 117 - SHIFTED | Book Reviews
Authors: Louis Perreault | Artists: Ron Jude
[Summer 2021] 12 Hz Ron Jude Londres, Mack Books, 2020, 128 p. Par Louis Perreault [Excerpt] Even before we open its cover, 12 Hz seems to vibrate on the table. As we plunge into the ice, rock, and powerful sea currents that mark out the pages of this book by American photographer Ron Jude, we […]
Ciel variable 117 - SHIFTED | Book Reviews
Authors: Claudia Polledri
[Summer 2021] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Histoire mondiale des femmes photographes Sous la direction de Luce Lebart et Marie Robert, Paris, Textuel, 2020, 506 p. Par Claudia Polledri (En français seulement) See the magazine for the […]
Ciel variable 117 - SHIFTED | Book Reviews
Authors: Amélie Giguère, Anne Bénichou
[Summer 2021] 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. Les reenactments, des pratiques culturelles et artistiques (in)actuelles Anne Bénichou Dijon, Les presses du réel, 2020, 421 p. Par Amélie Giguère (En français seulement) See the magazine […]
Ciel variable 116 — LANDSCAPES AS MIRRORS | Book Reviews
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) Suite de l’article et autres images dans le magazine : Ciel variable 116 – PAYSAGES MIROIRS
Ciel variable 115 - THE MARCH OF THE WORLD | Book Reviews
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 […]
Ciel variable 115 - THE MARCH OF THE WORLD | Book Reviews
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) See […]
Ciel variable 114 - MASSES | MONUMENTS | Book Reviews
Authors: James D. Campbell | Artists: Cy Twombly, Ewa Monika Zebrowski
[Winter 2020] It was the word beyond speech. — Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ecstasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know […]
[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 […]
Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Book Reviews
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
[Summer 2019] [Excerpt] Sophie Hackett, Andrea Kunard, Urs Stahel (dir.), Anthropocène. Burtynsky, Baichwal, De Pencier, Toronto/Fredericton, Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario/Goose Lane Edtions, 2018, 250 p. Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin (ed.), The Work of Wind: Land, Mississauga/Berlin, Blackwood Gallery/K. Verlag, 2018, 336 p. Myriam Jacob-Allard, T’envoler, Montréal, Dazibao, 2019, 38 p. Isabelle Hayeur, […]
[Winter 2019] [Excerpt] Livres photographiques Marie-Jeanne Musiol, La forêt radieuse : un herbier énergétique, Les éditions Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal, 2018, 224 p., 385 photographies n/b deux tons, couverture rigide, fr. Serge Clément, Archipel, Occurrence et Éditions Loco, Montréal/Paris, 2018, 191 p., 102 photographies, couverture rigide, texte de Zoë Tousignant, fr. et angl. […]
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews
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. Paris, Kaph Books – Presses du réel, 2018 Par Claudia Polledri (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here : Ciel variable […]
Ciel variable 111 - THE SPACE OF COLOUR | Book Reviews
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. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017 Par Erika Wicky (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. Available here : Ciel variable 111 – THE SPACE […]
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Book Reviews
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.
Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Book Reviews
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.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
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.
Ciel variable 109 - REVISIT | Book Reviews
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.
April 6, 2021 [originally published in CV108 in Winter 2018] — Photographic books, monographic catalogs and theoretical works, highlighted in Ciel variable 108 – Going Public.
Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Book Reviews
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.
Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Book Reviews
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.
Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Book Reviews
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.