Winter 2010 Issue 27.2
John Shelling, Managing Editor Cover Image: Doug DuBois, Spencer with his Violin, Ithaca, NY 2008, digital c-print, 76.2 x 101.6 cm, courtesy of Higher Pictures, NY Links: Richard Hines and Doug Dubois' entire conversation Bart Gazzola's two part interview with Clive Robertson for the A Word on CFCR FM in Saskatoon: Part One, Part Two Articles: A New Model of Perception: Elaine Stocki by Wayne Baerwaldt North Central Intervention: Terrance Houle by Felicia Gay Family Dialogue: a conversation between Doug Dubois and Richard Hines. Artist Project: Orbit: Doorknob Poster by Kristan Horton Artist Pages: Joan Kaufman. Text by J. Lynn Fraser Column: Frottage by Mark Clintberg Departments: Review: Then And Then Again, Clive Robertson, AKA Gallery and PAVED ...
John Mathews Artist Project: Rip it up and Start Again
Notes: This series of photographs is compiled from a range of work over the last eight years. Many of the peripheral locations that I photograph often result from pedestrian explorations of urban space. These investigations identify a number of concerns including social histories, ephemera, the nature of collective memory and the way we order our environment. As I wander through all of these places, I also try to reveal the uncanny that exists within the everyday and draw attention to these fragile and intimate undertones. In a range of ways these images express a certain kind of longing for both the ...
Joi Arcand Artist Project: trailer(home)1983
The earliest memories I have of growing up on the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in central Saskatchewan are of my childhood home, a blue and white trailer that sat in a farmyard, steps away from both my grandmother’s home and the home that my father grew up in. Though I have few vivid memories of life during that time, as my family moved from the trailer into a log house when I was four, I remember the essence of the place, the layout and décor, the smells and colours. I remember looking out the picture window at the yard, the ...
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Conversation: Doug Dubois & Richard Hines
Doug Dubois’ and Richard Hines’ families are very different, but the intimacy that they both photograph is very similar. And while neither is the first to photograph their family, both bodies of work are unique in that they capture intimate moments from a specific time, place, and group of people that only they would have been privileged to experience. [Read more] Read More →
Adad Hannah: Stills
By Chen Tamir Photography is caught between an invocation and a denial of death.1 On the one hand, it petrifies a scene, a moment. When sitters “hold still, smile, and say ‘cheese’,” they are fully aware of how they look at that moment, or at least how the camera sees them, will be carried into the future and seen by others. It is like a little moment of death, or of loss — what Roland Barthes... [Read more]
PLACE IMAGE JOURNEY: Scott Connaroe
BY Stephen Horne “To photograph has long been synonymous with the procedure of isolation and dislocation of an instant from its temporal/contextual mother land.”1 — Scott Connaroe “To define the present in isolation is to kill it.”2 — Paul Klee “Nostalgia is part of the problem and it does not contain the solution.”3 — Edward S. Casey 1.What better context in which to explore the... [Read more]
Recording the Passage of Time: Alison Rossiter and Michel Campeau
By Mark Clintberg I write this alone, from a cabin composed primarily of windows in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, in an artist’s colony at the Banff Centre. It is winter solstice. It is 5:00 p.m. and impenetrably dark in these woods. I have seen hungry looking coyotes. When I walk to and from my studio I shake my keychain aimlessly, and whistle to frighten off animals — and ghosts. To my understanding,... [Read more]
