Alexis Desgagnés, Ammoniaque — Ève Dorais

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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 […]

La fête : The People Came to Party — Dayna McLeod

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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 […]

Women Street Photographers — Ariane Noël de Tilly

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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 […]

Ron Jude — Louis Perreault

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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 […]

Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes — Claudia Polledri

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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 […]

Rejouer le vivant – Amélie Giguère

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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 […]

Ouvrages à souligner — Jérôme Delgado

Ciel variable 116 — LANDSCAPES AS MIRRORS | Book Reviews
Authors: Jérôme Delgado | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Geneviève Cadieux, Isabelle Hayeur, Valérian Mazataud

[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  

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)   See […]

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

[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 […]

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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[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, […]

New & Worthy

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[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.   […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

Kristine Potter, Manifest – Louis Perreault

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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. TBW Books, Oakland, 2018, 92 p., 48 duotones Par Louis Perreault (French only) [The printed and digital versions of the issue CV110 are on sale here : Ciel variable 110 – […]

Guillaume Simoneau, Experimental Lake – Mona Hakim

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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. MACK, Londres, 2018, 80 p., 48 photographies Par Mona Hakim (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale here : Ciel variable […]

Vincent Lavoie, L’affaire Capa – François Brunet

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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

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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.

New & Worthy

Ciel variable 108 - GOING PUBLIC | Book Reviews

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 | 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.

Masahisa Fukase, Ravens – Louis Perreault

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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

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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.