ARTICLES ET PORTFOLIOS CV78
EDITORIAL - A Few Case Studies
By Jacques Doyon
Photography is becoming an increasingly important component of private collections. Recognition of the wealth and diversity of the photographic tradition, as well as a significant rise in the value of photographs on the art market, have accompanied this evolution.
PORTFOLIO - Ydessa Hendeles, Collector and curator
The singularity of collections exists at the meeting point of the artists’ sensitivities and the collector’s philosophy. In the case of Ydessa Hendeles’s collection, this marriage of viewpoints results in a rich exploration of the pathologies, contradictions, and anxieties of contemporary Western societies.
Archiving Contemporary Anxieties
Toronto collector Ydessa Hendeles is no ordinary gatherer of photographs. Instead of following the usual practice of connoisseurs – buying only rare images that show artists at the top of their technical game –
PORTFOLIO - W. M. Hunt, Collection Dancing Bear, Vernacular images
For thirty years, W. H. Hunt has been building a photography collection that brings together 1,200 works marked by the absence of sight in the photographed subjects. Composed of classical and contemporary works by renowned artists,
Hide and seek in a photograph collection
W. M. Hunt’s photograph collection Collection Dancing Bear whispers some secrets about photography. It is full of mystery, chaos, darkness, and excitement. It is unpredictable. It is creepy. It is provocative.
PORTFOLIO - Lazare, Portraits et paysages : la collection Lazare
Following a first purchase, a work by Julia Margaret Cameron (United Kingdom, nineteenth century), the Lazare family has moulded the photographic content of it’s collection over the past twenty-five years to form what is a mainly contemporary ensemble of emotionally rich portraits and nostalgic landscapes.
Singular Introspections
With photographic portraits and landscapes, Jack Lazare, senior vice-president of Vision 2000, has made the walls of the travel agency group’s offices in downtown Montreal an expression of his tastes and sensibilities.
Montreal Collects, Contemporary Photography: The LaRochelle and Taillefer collections
Interest in contemporary photography has reached a fever pitch. In 2006, at Sotheby’s in New York, a huge colour print by Andreas Gursky (dating from 1999) went on the block and sold for $2,256,000. Six months earlier, Richard Prince’s seminal work Untitled (Cowboy),
Twenty Years of Ciel Variable – Part Two
To complement the first part of our look back at the first twenty years of the magazine, published in our last issue, we want here to emphasize two relatively obscure aspects of our history.
VOICES - From One Image to the Next: A Conversation with Harun Farocki
By André Habib and Pavel Pavlov
Montreal - October 20, 2007
The video installation Deep Play, discussed here, will be presented at the DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art in Montreal from February 21 to May 25, 2008.
