Some views, some perspectives
Monday, 31 May 2010 14:09
“Landscape” photography – that which depicts the territory, the environment, places – is no doubt one of the most widely practised photographic genres, by various categories of picture takers: topographers, explorers, artists, tourists, and amateur photographers.
Form: Experimentation and Transformation
Wednesday, 31 March 2010 17:07
Parages / Pane mundial, 2002, impression à jet d’encre archive sur polypropylène, 274 x 1016 cm,
© Alain Paiement
Looking back over twenty years and trying to retrace the path of experiments with images, we start in the early 1990s, when a couple of newcomers, Alain Paiement and Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, were already starting to turn heads. In an essay published in 1992, Denis Lessard tried to show what these artists owed to the heritage of Pierre Boogaerts, Bill Vazan, and Serge Tousignant.1 He also mentioned the work, then new, of Raymonde April, Lucie Lefebvre, and Denis Farley. This effort at historical perspective was out of place at the time, when the lion’s share of attention in the critical environment was being paid to the rebirth of installation art and the manner in which photography and, soon, the photographic would be inserted into it.
Thematic approaches
This section contains short essays giving a retrospective view of artistic issues with the image during the period covered by the archive. It includes both introductions to the different themes on which the database is structured and short overviews of the magazine’s history.
New articles will gradually be added during the coming year so that a complete set of introductions to the themes in the archive will be available.
This section will serve as a base for online editorial activity complementary to that in the magazine, which will be developed in order to increase the scope and distribution of our publication activities.
