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This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

Par Martha Langford

Le Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada (MBAC), actuellement sous la direction de Marc Mayer, a récemment annoncé que le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine (MCPC) n’occupera plus son propre bâtiment situé au 1, canal Rideau.

By Jacques Doyon

Gaëlle Morel, guest curator for Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, is a member of the board of directors of the Société française de photographie and of the editorial committee of Études photographiques.

The weight of photographic history:  THE YVES BEAUREGARD COLLECTION

By Zoë Tousignant

From September 25, 2008, to January 4, 2009, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is presenting Quebec City and its Photographers, 1850–1908: The Yves Beauregard Collection,

By Jacques Doyon

The image bank is an archive structured by selection, indexing, and thematic cross-referencing procedures that determine how it is used. Artists appropriate this mechanism to explore the issues in visual culture and the contemporary future of the “virtual museum” prefigured by Malraux.

By Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable is twenty years old! Over the years, the magazine has undergone several metamorphoses in order to better reflect the evolution in photographic practice, the broadening of its field of application, its recognition by the art world, and changes in its institutional environment.

Le World Press Photo ou le photojournalisme au Salon

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. –Read the Abstract

Par Vincent Lavoie

Le World Press Photo of the Year est décerné annuellement à l’auteur de l’image la plus exemplaire d’un fait d’actualité récent. Créé en 1955 à l’occasion de la célébration du 25e anniversaire du syndicat des photographes néerlandais,

PORTFOLIO - Vid Ingelevics, Between art and Art
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Between art and Art deals with the peculiar aspects of the work of museum photographers, whose large-format photographs of works of art, exhibition installations, and other details of the museum’s operations and its architecture are neither purely technical documentation nor art photography.

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By Elizabeth Legge

In his current photographic projects, Vid Ingelevics draws attention to our cultural investment in the museum and the things that we assume it represents. As anomic flâneur, he has turned his ambiguous regard to things that we would ordinarily ignore on the way to an imagined main event.1

PORTFOLIO - Patrick Altman, Musées et archives : les collections revisitées

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

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Les installations de Patrick Altman explorent le rôle de la photographie dans la mise en valeur et l’intégration des œuvres d’art dans la mémoire collective et individuelle.

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Abstract

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Par Louise Déry

Patrick Altman met en scène les phénomènes de l’inventaire et de la classification propres aux collections muséales, associant ainsi sa vie professionnelle de photographe de musée et sa pratique d’artiste2.

PORTFOLIO - Carl Zimmerman, Landmarks
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Zimmerman attributes to his photographs “an essentially utopian aesthetic with ambivalent understandings.” Humour, nostalgia, and critical deconstruction coexist in his work, as they often do in our responses to totalitarian aesthetics. “Fascinating fascism” shares its allure with the less radically discredited, but equally utopian, architectures of socialism and New Deal social democracy.

The Aesthetics of Power
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By Robin Metcalfe

For those familiar with Carl Zimmerman’s work, there was a moment of déja vu when the first photographs of England’s new Tate Modern appeared.

The Office

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Summary

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Par Mariona Fernández

Il semblerait que, saturés comme nous le sommes d’informations de toutes sortes, nous en soyons arrivés à un point où nous ne sommes plus capables de faire la distinction entre la vérité et le mensonge, entre le réel et l’irréel.

PORTFOLIO - Rudd van Empel

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

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Il semblerait que, saturés comme nous le sommes d’informations de toutes sortes, nous en soyons arrivés à un point où nous ne sommes plus capables de faire la distinction entre la vérité et le mensonge, entre le réel et l’irréel.

By Franck Michel

As I was writing this editorial, I learned that Claude Thibeault, curator of the photography collection at the Musée du Québec, has lost his job. Four years ago, the Musée du Québec set up a collection dedicated exclusively to photography and appointed Mr. Thibeault to run it, showing its desire to make photography an important aspect of its collections.

PORTFOLIO - Xuân-Huy Nguyen, Compositions

A Montrealer of Vietnamese origin, Xuân-Huy Nguyen earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts (photography major) from Concordia University. With Compositions, Nguyen casts a critical eye on Quebec photography, which he feels is distant and bland.

Against All Reason
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By Anne-Marie Garceau

Aside from the demolition machines attacking a distant wing of the boarding school, the site is deserted. The photographer enters the condemned building, determined to make the silence speak.

PORTFOLIO - Miki Gingras
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Aside from the demolition machines attacking a distant wing of the boarding school, the site is deserted. The photographer enters the condemned building, determined to make the silence speak.

This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.

Par Sylvain Campeau

Le 23 septembre dernier, Vox Populi, en collaboration avec le Musée d’art contemporain, a organisé un colloque intitulé La présence de la photographie dans les collections des musées. Spécificité d’un médium… d’une culture.

 
 
 
 
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