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This is the first major English-language study of factography, an avant-garde movement of 1920s modernism. Devin Fore charts this style through the work of its key figures, illuminating factography’s position in the material culture of the early Soviet period and situating it as a precursor to the genre of documentary that arose in the 1930s. Factographers employed(...)
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This is the first major English-language study of factography, an avant-garde movement of 1920s modernism. Devin Fore charts this style through the work of its key figures, illuminating factography’s position in the material culture of the early Soviet period and situating it as a precursor to the genre of documentary that arose in the 1930s. Factographers employed(...)
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Soviet Factography: Reality without realism
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This is the first major English-language study of factography, an avant-garde movement of 1920s modernism. Devin Fore charts this style through the work of its key figures, illuminating factography’s position in the material culture of the early Soviet period and situating it as a precursor to the genre of documentary that arose in the 1930s. Factographers employed photography and film practices in their campaign to inscribe facts and to chronicle modernization as it transformed human experience and society. Fore considers factography in light of the period’s explosion of new media technologies—including radio broadcasting, sound in film, and photo-media innovations—that allowed the press to transform culture on a massive scale.
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This is the first major English-language study of factography, an avant-garde movement of 1920s modernism. Devin Fore charts this style through the work of its key figures, illuminating factography’s position in the material culture of the early Soviet period and situating it as a precursor to the genre of documentary that arose in the 1930s. Factographers employed photography and film practices in their campaign to inscribe facts and to chronicle modernization as it transformed human experience and society. Fore considers factography in light of the period’s explosion of new media technologies—including radio broadcasting, sound in film, and photo-media innovations—that allowed the press to transform culture on a massive scale.
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''History of light'' delves into the fascinating life of František Drtikol (1883–1961), an important figure in early-twentieth-century photography who is all but forgotten in contemporary times. A dandy from a small mining town, a world-famous photographer whose business went bankrupt, a master of the nude who never had much luck with women, a mystic and a Buddhist who(...)
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''History of light'' delves into the fascinating life of František Drtikol (1883–1961), an important figure in early-twentieth-century photography who is all but forgotten in contemporary times. A dandy from a small mining town, a world-famous photographer whose business went bankrupt, a master of the nude who never had much luck with women, a mystic and a Buddhist who(...)
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History of light: František Drtikol
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''History of light'' delves into the fascinating life of František Drtikol (1883–1961), an important figure in early-twentieth-century photography who is all but forgotten in contemporary times. A dandy from a small mining town, a world-famous photographer whose business went bankrupt, a master of the nude who never had much luck with women, a mystic and a Buddhist who believed in communism—a man whose numerous contradictions were evident externally and synthesized internally. A unique blend of fiction and biography, this novel vividly portrays Drtikol’s life, tracing the diverse stages of his career and offering detailed, almost encyclopedic insights into the times and places pivotal to his journey. Acclaimed Czech author Jan Nemec narrates the story in the uncommon second-person singular, speaking directly to his subject. Fresco-like, this novel is an artistic and spiritual Bildungsroman that covers over half a century, bringing to life the silver mines of Príbram, Jugendstil Munich, and the Bohemianism of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Drtikol’s role as a photographer is set against the turbulent history of Central Europe through the two World Wars, and the events of those five decades form a riveting backdrop for an exploration of the artist’s work.
History of light: František Drtikol
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''History of light'' delves into the fascinating life of František Drtikol (1883–1961), an important figure in early-twentieth-century photography who is all but forgotten in contemporary times. A dandy from a small mining town, a world-famous photographer whose business went bankrupt, a master of the nude who never had much luck with women, a mystic and a Buddhist who believed in communism—a man whose numerous contradictions were evident externally and synthesized internally. A unique blend of fiction and biography, this novel vividly portrays Drtikol’s life, tracing the diverse stages of his career and offering detailed, almost encyclopedic insights into the times and places pivotal to his journey. Acclaimed Czech author Jan Nemec narrates the story in the uncommon second-person singular, speaking directly to his subject. Fresco-like, this novel is an artistic and spiritual Bildungsroman that covers over half a century, bringing to life the silver mines of Príbram, Jugendstil Munich, and the Bohemianism of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Drtikol’s role as a photographer is set against the turbulent history of Central Europe through the two World Wars, and the events of those five decades form a riveting backdrop for an exploration of the artist’s work.
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This volume, published in conjunction with the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, provides new insights into the interdisciplinary and lesser-known aspects of Robert Frank’s expansive career. The exhibition explores the six decades that followed his landmark photobook "The Americans," a period in which Frank maintained an extraordinarily(...)
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This volume, published in conjunction with the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, provides new insights into the interdisciplinary and lesser-known aspects of Robert Frank’s expansive career. The exhibition explores the six decades that followed his landmark photobook "The Americans," a period in which Frank maintained an extraordinarily(...)
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Life dances on: Robert Frank in dialogue
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This volume, published in conjunction with the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, provides new insights into the interdisciplinary and lesser-known aspects of Robert Frank’s expansive career. The exhibition explores the six decades that followed his landmark photobook "The Americans," a period in which Frank maintained an extraordinarily multifaceted practice characterized by perpetual experimentation across mediums and artistic and personal dialogues with other artists and with his communities. Coinciding with the centennial of his birth, this catalog takes its name from the artist’s poignant 1980 film, "Life Dances On," in which Frank reflects on the individuals who have shaped his outlook.
Life dances on: Robert Frank in dialogue
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This volume, published in conjunction with the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, provides new insights into the interdisciplinary and lesser-known aspects of Robert Frank’s expansive career. The exhibition explores the six decades that followed his landmark photobook "The Americans," a period in which Frank maintained an extraordinarily multifaceted practice characterized by perpetual experimentation across mediums and artistic and personal dialogues with other artists and with his communities. Coinciding with the centennial of his birth, this catalog takes its name from the artist’s poignant 1980 film, "Life Dances On," in which Frank reflects on the individuals who have shaped his outlook.
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This publication from acclaimed architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi traces a theoretical and visual narrative through architecture's relationship with the colour black. Bringing together a rich inventory of images, it illuminates this connection by considering parallel developments in global art practices with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Adolf(...)
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This publication from acclaimed architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi traces a theoretical and visual narrative through architecture's relationship with the colour black. Bringing together a rich inventory of images, it illuminates this connection by considering parallel developments in global art practices with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Adolf(...)
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The color black: Antinomies of a color in architecture and art
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This publication from acclaimed architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi traces a theoretical and visual narrative through architecture's relationship with the colour black. Bringing together a rich inventory of images, it illuminates this connection by considering parallel developments in global art practices with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Adolf Loos to Norman Foster, Hans Holbein to Derek Jarman. Alongside these renowned touchpoints, Mostafavi draws on a little-known and highly distinctive text by the Marxist German art historian Max Raphael, based on a collection of historic paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Contemporaneous with the evolution of black paintings by New York's Abstract Expressionists, Raphael's essay offers a drastically contrasting approach to the same multivalent subject. The book is completed by Rapahel's luminous essay, published in its entirety for the first time in an English translation by Pamela Johnston, as well as conversations with Swiss architect Peter Märkli, whose work with the colour black is informed by Raphael's writings, and Theaster Gates. By juxtaposing the present with the recent and distant past, this book provides a many-layered reading of the colour black ? and of colour more widely ? in relation to contemporary architectural thinking and practice.
The color black: Antinomies of a color in architecture and art
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This publication from acclaimed architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi traces a theoretical and visual narrative through architecture's relationship with the colour black. Bringing together a rich inventory of images, it illuminates this connection by considering parallel developments in global art practices with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Adolf Loos to Norman Foster, Hans Holbein to Derek Jarman. Alongside these renowned touchpoints, Mostafavi draws on a little-known and highly distinctive text by the Marxist German art historian Max Raphael, based on a collection of historic paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Contemporaneous with the evolution of black paintings by New York's Abstract Expressionists, Raphael's essay offers a drastically contrasting approach to the same multivalent subject. The book is completed by Rapahel's luminous essay, published in its entirety for the first time in an English translation by Pamela Johnston, as well as conversations with Swiss architect Peter Märkli, whose work with the colour black is informed by Raphael's writings, and Theaster Gates. By juxtaposing the present with the recent and distant past, this book provides a many-layered reading of the colour black ? and of colour more widely ? in relation to contemporary architectural thinking and practice.
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“The illiterate of the future … will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.” So declared Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) in his essay ''A Short History of Photography'', originally published in the periodical Literarische Welt in 1931. Beginning with the early experiments of Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce and concluding(...)
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“The illiterate of the future … will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.” So declared Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) in his essay ''A Short History of Photography'', originally published in the periodical Literarische Welt in 1931. Beginning with the early experiments of Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce and concluding(...)
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A short history of photography
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“The illiterate of the future … will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.” So declared Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) in his essay ''A Short History of Photography'', originally published in the periodical Literarische Welt in 1931. Beginning with the early experiments of Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce and concluding with the work of August Sander and Germaine Krull, Benjamin moved beyond the medium itself to address the artistic, societal and political capabilities that photography foretold. ''A Short History of Photography'' contains the inklings of his thoughts on “reproducibility” that he would later flesh out in his best-known text, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Benjamin’s view of photography gave early credence to the medium and its practitioners and shaped the methodology by which it can be analyzed.
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“The illiterate of the future … will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.” So declared Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) in his essay ''A Short History of Photography'', originally published in the periodical Literarische Welt in 1931. Beginning with the early experiments of Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce and concluding with the work of August Sander and Germaine Krull, Benjamin moved beyond the medium itself to address the artistic, societal and political capabilities that photography foretold. ''A Short History of Photography'' contains the inklings of his thoughts on “reproducibility” that he would later flesh out in his best-known text, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Benjamin’s view of photography gave early credence to the medium and its practitioners and shaped the methodology by which it can be analyzed.
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La vie et l'oeuvre de Sergio Larrain, un des photographes chiliens les plus importants, sont entourées d'une aura de génie et de mystère. Il réalisa dès les années cinquante un travail précieux et brillant qui, jusqu'à sa mort en 2012, demeura quasiment inconnu au Chili. Personnage contradictoire, il s'est retiré de la vie publique à la fin des années soixante-dix pour se(...)
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La vie et l'oeuvre de Sergio Larrain, un des photographes chiliens les plus importants, sont entourées d'une aura de génie et de mystère. Il réalisa dès les années cinquante un travail précieux et brillant qui, jusqu'à sa mort en 2012, demeura quasiment inconnu au Chili. Personnage contradictoire, il s'est retiré de la vie publique à la fin des années soixante-dix pour se(...)
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Sergio Larrain, la photo perdue
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La vie et l'oeuvre de Sergio Larrain, un des photographes chiliens les plus importants, sont entourées d'une aura de génie et de mystère. Il réalisa dès les années cinquante un travail précieux et brillant qui, jusqu'à sa mort en 2012, demeura quasiment inconnu au Chili. Personnage contradictoire, il s'est retiré de la vie publique à la fin des années soixante-dix pour se consacrer à la méditation, au yoga et à l'écriture. Larrain resta connecté au monde de la photographie en maintenant une multitude de relations épistolaires, avec la singularité qui le caractérise. Ce livre, écrit aux confins du cercle familial, explore les clairs-obscurs de sa biographie. Sergio Lorrain, la photo perdue est le sixième titre de la collection TXT, dirigée par Agnès Sire.
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La vie et l'oeuvre de Sergio Larrain, un des photographes chiliens les plus importants, sont entourées d'une aura de génie et de mystère. Il réalisa dès les années cinquante un travail précieux et brillant qui, jusqu'à sa mort en 2012, demeura quasiment inconnu au Chili. Personnage contradictoire, il s'est retiré de la vie publique à la fin des années soixante-dix pour se consacrer à la méditation, au yoga et à l'écriture. Larrain resta connecté au monde de la photographie en maintenant une multitude de relations épistolaires, avec la singularité qui le caractérise. Ce livre, écrit aux confins du cercle familial, explore les clairs-obscurs de sa biographie. Sergio Lorrain, la photo perdue est le sixième titre de la collection TXT, dirigée par Agnès Sire.
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See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
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See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
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See/ Saw: Looking at photographs
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See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
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See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
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Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) et Vivian Maier (1926-2009) sont deux photographes américaines ayant réalisé une œuvre foisonnante d’autoportraits. À tort ou à raison, leurs deux noms sont désormais inséparables de sorts personnels devenus des mythes modernes de disparition - la première en raison de son suicide à l’âge de vingt-deux ans, la deuxième à cause de la quantité(...)
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Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) et Vivian Maier (1926-2009) sont deux photographes américaines ayant réalisé une œuvre foisonnante d’autoportraits. À tort ou à raison, leurs deux noms sont désormais inséparables de sorts personnels devenus des mythes modernes de disparition - la première en raison de son suicide à l’âge de vingt-deux ans, la deuxième à cause de la quantité(...)
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Traverser l'invisible: Énigmes figuratives de Francesca Woodman et Vivian Maier
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Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) et Vivian Maier (1926-2009) sont deux photographes américaines ayant réalisé une œuvre foisonnante d’autoportraits. À tort ou à raison, leurs deux noms sont désormais inséparables de sorts personnels devenus des mythes modernes de disparition - la première en raison de son suicide à l’âge de vingt-deux ans, la deuxième à cause de la quantité de pellicules non développées laissées derrière elle dans un anonymat presque total. En marge des mouvements artistiques qui leur Étaient contemporains et dont elles sont restées éloignées, elles semblent aussi avoir inventé des images en marge du temps. Qu’elles l’aient fait au XXe siècle n’est pas anodin. Elles héritent d’une histoire double que cet ouvrage formule et parcourt.
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Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) et Vivian Maier (1926-2009) sont deux photographes américaines ayant réalisé une œuvre foisonnante d’autoportraits. À tort ou à raison, leurs deux noms sont désormais inséparables de sorts personnels devenus des mythes modernes de disparition - la première en raison de son suicide à l’âge de vingt-deux ans, la deuxième à cause de la quantité de pellicules non développées laissées derrière elle dans un anonymat presque total. En marge des mouvements artistiques qui leur Étaient contemporains et dont elles sont restées éloignées, elles semblent aussi avoir inventé des images en marge du temps. Qu’elles l’aient fait au XXe siècle n’est pas anodin. Elles héritent d’une histoire double que cet ouvrage formule et parcourt.
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October 2022
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These essays have been published in a broad range of magazines, including Aperture, ArtForum, and The Nation. In "Between the eyes: essays on photography and politics", Strauss tackles subjects ranging from “Photography and Propaganda” to the imagery of dreams; from Sebastião Salgado’s epic social documents to the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca(...)
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These essays have been published in a broad range of magazines, including Aperture, ArtForum, and The Nation. In "Between the eyes: essays on photography and politics", Strauss tackles subjects ranging from “Photography and Propaganda” to the imagery of dreams; from Sebastião Salgado’s epic social documents to the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca(...)
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Between the eyes : essays on photography and politics
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These essays have been published in a broad range of magazines, including Aperture, ArtForum, and The Nation. In "Between the eyes: essays on photography and politics", Strauss tackles subjects ranging from “Photography and Propaganda” to the imagery of dreams; from Sebastião Salgado’s epic social documents to the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman. The timely issue of photographic legitimacy is addressed in the essay “Photography and belief,” and in “The highest degree of illusion,” Strauss discusses the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11.
Between the eyes : essays on photography and politics
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These essays have been published in a broad range of magazines, including Aperture, ArtForum, and The Nation. In "Between the eyes: essays on photography and politics", Strauss tackles subjects ranging from “Photography and Propaganda” to the imagery of dreams; from Sebastião Salgado’s epic social documents to the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman. The timely issue of photographic legitimacy is addressed in the essay “Photography and belief,” and in “The highest degree of illusion,” Strauss discusses the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11.
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April 2003, New York
April 2003, New York
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Catalogue publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Confluence. La photographie canadienne contemporaine", organisée par le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, et présentée à Ottawa du 25 janvier au 4 mai 2003. "Confluence" souligne le travail de 17 photographes qui exercent leur art aujourd'hui au Canada, et montre l'étendue et la diversité de leurs recherches.(...)
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Catalogue publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Confluence. La photographie canadienne contemporaine", organisée par le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, et présentée à Ottawa du 25 janvier au 4 mai 2003. "Confluence" souligne le travail de 17 photographes qui exercent leur art aujourd'hui au Canada, et montre l'étendue et la diversité de leurs recherches.(...)
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Confluence : la photographie canadienne contemporaine
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Catalogue publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Confluence. La photographie canadienne contemporaine", organisée par le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, et présentée à Ottawa du 25 janvier au 4 mai 2003. "Confluence" souligne le travail de 17 photographes qui exercent leur art aujourd'hui au Canada, et montre l'étendue et la diversité de leurs recherches. Au cours de la dernière décennie, la plupart de ces artistes a figuré au programme du MCPC, qu'il s'agisse de photographes établis et renommés mondialement comme Geneviève Cadieux, Edward Burtynsky, Jeff Wall, Lynne Cohen, Donigan Cumming, Evergon, Michael Snow et Arnaud Maggs, ou d'artistes de la relève tels que Damian Moppett, Kelly Wood et Janieta Eyre.
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Catalogue publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Confluence. La photographie canadienne contemporaine", organisée par le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, et présentée à Ottawa du 25 janvier au 4 mai 2003. "Confluence" souligne le travail de 17 photographes qui exercent leur art aujourd'hui au Canada, et montre l'étendue et la diversité de leurs recherches. Au cours de la dernière décennie, la plupart de ces artistes a figuré au programme du MCPC, qu'il s'agisse de photographes établis et renommés mondialement comme Geneviève Cadieux, Edward Burtynsky, Jeff Wall, Lynne Cohen, Donigan Cumming, Evergon, Michael Snow et Arnaud Maggs, ou d'artistes de la relève tels que Damian Moppett, Kelly Wood et Janieta Eyre.
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January 1900, Ottawa
January 1900, Ottawa
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