 Galerie d’art du Centre Culturel Université de Sherbrooke January 12 to February 22, 2009  Until recently, a former resident of Shanghai from the 1930s or 1940s, returning to the city decades later, would have a good chance of being able to locate his or her old home since urban development for profit was suspended for nearly a half century.  Greg Girard ’s recent monograph Phantom Shanghai describes the urban vestiges of communist-era Shanghai as they are swept away in the city’s recent wave of economic development.  In November 2008, Benoit Aquin won the prestigious Prix Pictet for his series on desertification and dust storms in China. One of the greatest environmental disasters of our time, the Chinese “Dust Bowl” is probably the largest conversion of productive land into sand anywhere in the world.  Also see the artist's portfolio For twenty years, Benoît Aquin has travelled widely, armed with a global vision and the determination to construct a global project. From initial forays into the Caribbean in the late 1980s By Jacques Doyon In this issue, we bring together images testifying to the impacts of accelerated modernization in today’s China. The photographers who made them have varying degrees of professional experience linked to commissions for the media, corporations, or advertising.  This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Galerie Leonard et Bina Ellen, Université Concordia 29 août au 11 octobre 2008 Commissaire : Séamus Kealy (Blackwood Gallery, Université de Toronto / Mississauga)
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NO IMAGE AVAILABLE The Archive Peter Piller contains tens of thousands of press images that Piller started to collect while employed at an advertising agency. The numbing task of endlessly scanning publications day in and day out became engaging when Piller started to clip and organize images from the newspapers.  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,  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.  In her most recent series of photographic works, Zoe Leonard focuses her square viewfinder on small shops and businesses on three continents. This series, titled Analogue (1997–2007), documents discount stores, repair shops, second-hand stores, restaurants, and flea markets that are separated by thousands of miles.  Using the unflagging documentary power of photography, Zoe Leonard lends us her eyes and shows hundreds of small business operations – discount stores, repair shops, restaurants, and flea markets – and the everyday objects associated with them.  In today’s world, the blurring between the urban landscape and the mediascape increasingly typifies our experience of our environment. Robert Walker’s body of work illustrates this blurring in a remarkable manner.  For more than fifty years, Fred Herzog has roamed the streets of Vancouver. His camera dwells on the raw fabric of the city: second-hand stores, restaurants, storefront windows, barbershops, and vacant lots, and the people using those spaces.  “When you have seen the city to a point when you think you have done it all, the horizon will suddenly sustain a crack and a new cycle of hitherto unseen phenomena will begin to form shadows on your film.” – Fred Herzog  Robert Walker Robert Walker turned to photography in 1975, after detours into abstract painting and conceptual art. Imagery was present in his conceptual production in the form of quasi-generic,  This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. –Read the Abstract
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