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

Ciel variable 104 - FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | Book Reviews
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…

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