ARTICLES AND PORTFOLIOS CV43
EDITORIAL - CV43
By Franck Michel
During a recent trip abroad, I had an opportunity to meet with a number of photography specialists, including publishers from various countries. These meetings enabled me to take stock of the state of contemporary-photography magazines throughout the world.
POINT DE VUE - Que vaut la photographie contemporaine ?
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.
Les artistes contemporains qui utilisent la photographie comme mode d’expression se plaignent souvent de la faiblesse du marché.
Sur la piste de la ruée vers l’or
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Summary
On voit, depuis quelque temps déjà, de plus en plus d’artistes-photographes s’essayer à une forme de littéralisation de la trace et du tact. Des images se présentent en effet comme des vestiges d’un toucher, d’une proximité, d’une coprésence.
Marlene Creates
The photography-based art of Marlene Creates has long dealt with the relationship between marking and landscape. Her photographs function as a means of documenting that relationship and posing critical questions about how our perception of the land is constructed through language.
Pictures of Hell
By Mark Ruwedel
“Once, from eastern ocean to western ocean, the land stretched away without names. Nameless headlands split the surf; nameless lakes reflected nameless mountains; and nameless rivers flowed through nameless valleys into nameless bays.”
George R. Stewart, Names on the Land1
