Category Archive: Books
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Pauline et Pierre from Hugues de Wurstemberger
For the birth of my second son, my friend and colleague Bertrand Carrière gave me a beautiful photography book titled Pauline et Pierre, from Belgium photographer Hugues de Wurstemberger. As the title suggests, the subject of this book are of his children Pauline and Pierre, two figures that mingle through the book with images of [...]
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Stefan Heyne – The Noise
I’ve recently received Stefan Heyne‘s book titled The Noise published by Kehrer. These days it’s always really exciting, for me anyways, to get a package from the post office, especially when it’s traveled from over seas. Discovering Heyne’s work through his book has been a really nice experience and I do wish one day to [...]
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Alfred Stieglitz
This past weekend I was in Ottawa and stopped in at a used book store, Argosy books on Dalhousie to be exact. I made my way to the back to the photography section, where there were some interesting ones, mostly old history photography books, which were at eye level. But up above were the books [...]
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Gabor Szilasi and Stephen Shore
Yesterday was a nice one, Gabor Szilasi and Stephen Shore all in one! In the afternoon I attended a wonderful lecture by Gabor Szilasi at Concordia University. Gabor is being celebrated for his 50 years of work, starting at Musée d’art de Joliette on May 24 and a retrospective of his work will be touring [...]
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Amanda Tetrault’s series Phil & Me
Amanda Tetrault‘s project Phil & Me is a really interesting series. Phil is Amanada’s father who suffers from schizophrenia. And Amanda attempts, through photography, to understand and to enlighten her relationship with him. On the streets of Montreal, Amanda documented her father’s life and hers. You can find the photographic series on her website but [...]
