The Face. A Photographic Moment
The Face. A Photographic Moment
This publication accompanies the two parts of THE FACE exhibition, entitled In Search of the Emblematic and Towards a Capture of the Photographic. The works presented are reproduced in the middle of the book. Adopting as their point of departure the photographic momentum resulting from the first photograph of the Shroud of Turin, the authors explore a number of fundamental principles of photography in order to reexamine the notion of the photographic, and discuss the gaze, the Other, on which photography depends to reveal itself before, during and after the actual shot, as well as the double necessity for mediation and mediatization. Also dealt with are the phenomenology of funeral rituals, and photography’s particular propensity to push up against limits.
LES ESSAIS
The collection entitled LES ESSAIS provides a site for discussion and confrontation between various currents of photographic theory. The texts in this collection explore the repercussions on photography resulting from the historical development of the gaze.
Authors: Luc Bureau, Chantal Boulanger, Sylvain Campeau, Luce Des Aulniers, Jean Dumont, Marie Fraser, Michaël La Chance, Sylvie Parent
Artists: Joseph Branco, Marlene Creates, Lionel Fourneaux, Diane Génier, Jean-François Lecourt, Paula Levine, Louise Noguchi, Anny One & Anne Onyme, Yves O’Reilly, Nataly Reid, Mindy Yan Miller
Under the editorial direction of France Choinière and Yves O’Reilly
Design: Kevin C. Rowdon
1998
Text in English and French, 164 pages, black and white reproductions, perfect binding
ISBN: 978-2-922135-01-5
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