Ciel Variable 79 - Colours of the City
EDITORIAL - Contemporary Flâneurs
By Jacques Doyon
Photographing the street, over time, to record the evolution of the city and how it is used is a strategy that remains current. In these pages, it reveals the survival of small businesses in the era of globalization of markets, it allows us to follow the radical transformation of a city centre, and it confronts us with the invasive illusion of advertising images that rival reality.
PORTFOLIO - Zoe Leonard, Analogue
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.
Zoe Leonard, Objects and merchandise
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.
PORTFOLIO - Robert Walker, Mediascapes: New York, Montreal, Warsaw
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.
Mercantile Labyrinths
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,
PORTFOLIO - Fred Herzog, The City’s Fabric
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.
Free Observer
“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
Photographic Projects for the Web: Digital Photo Albums
Thanks to the growing popularity of digital cameras, with their direct connectivity to computers, the number of images sent by e-mail and of photographs published on the network has been growing exponentially.
Preservation of Artworks in the Era of Obsolescence
My father, like many in his generation,1 was a big fan of family photographs. Anything and everything was an excuse to take “slides,” as he called them. We were living in Quebec City, and, aside from the pictures taken at Christmas and on summer trips to Maine,
VOICES - Chantal Pontbriand : On the situation of contemporary-art magazines
By Jacques Doyon
For thirty years, Chantal Pontbriand has been the guiding light of the magazine Parachute. From the beginning, she positioned it among the internationally significant magazines.
