Image & Imagination

by Langford, Martha; Feldstein, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780773529694
• ISBN10: 0773529691
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

Photography and reality are inextricably linked but, whether one is being photographed, making a photograph, or looking at a photograph, photography is an act of the imagination. In nine original essays, art historians and cultural theorists break with photographic tradition to explore the crucial role of the imagination in photography from nineteenth-century studio portraiture to twenty-first-century digital innovations. Drawing on the twenty-nine exhibitions of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2005,Image & Imaginationfeatures the work of fifty contemporary artists from Canada, Australia, the United States, France, England, Haiti, and Japan, including Alain Bublex, Michel Campeau, Destiny Deacon, Evergon, David Hlynsky, Tracey Moffat, Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison, Lynne Marsh, Polixeni Papapetrou, Martin Parr, Romona Ramlochand, Carolee Schneemann, Michael Snow, and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Movements Toward Image	2	(15)
Martha Langford
Part One: Sightlines into the Imagination
Through the Picture Plane: On Looking into Photographs	17	(21)
Ian Walker
Michael Snow: Windows	26	(4)
Tracey Moffatt: Fight and Flight	30	(4)
Diane Borsato: How to Eat Light	34	(4)
Eyes and Skin/Gaze and Touch: Productive Imagination and the Bodily Suffix	38	(25)
Francine Dagenais
Lynne Marsh: Crater	50	(3)
Ramona Ramlochand: White Desert	53	(4)
Alice Ming Wai Jim
Carolee Schneemann: Disembodied	57	(6)
Randall Anderson
Part Two: Mirroring Ourselves, Recasting Otherness
Dreams of Ordinary Life: Cartes-de-visite and the Bourgeois Imagination	63	(28)
Geoffrey Batchen
After Alice: Angela Grossmann and Polixeni Papapetrou	75	(6)
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie: Against Amnesia	81	(3)
Rhonda L. Meier
Trading Places: Michael Ensminger, Rafael Goldchain, Noritoshi Hirakawa, and Anna Palakunnathu Matthew	84	(7)
Dangerous Doubles: Degenerate and Regenerate Photography in the Eugenic Imagination	91	(23)
Fae Brauer
Karen Brett: The Myth of Sexual Loss	103	(2)
Unstilled Lives: Destiny Deacon and Evergon	105	(6)
Les Impatients: Take 2	111	(3)
Gabor Szilasi
Lost Horizons, or The Gates Close at Sunset: Doubtful Realisms and Paradisiacal Gains	114	(33)
Martha Langford
Primal Images: Transmutations of a National Icon	128	(4)
Vincent Lavoie
Neverlands: Monique Genton, Toni Hafkenscheid, Martin Parr, and Mike Yuhasz	132	(6)
Alain Bublex: Glooscap	138	(4)
Digs in the Zone: Phil Bergerson, Michel Campeau, and Glenn Sloggett	142	(5)
Webs of Resistance: Photography, the Internet, and the Global Justice Movement	147	(26)
Kirsty Robertson
Shana and Robert Parke Harrison: From The Architect's Brother	159	(4)
David Hlynsky: Rosebud	163	(4)
Donigan Cumming: Prologue to Epilogue	167	(6)
Part Three: Pictures as a Way of Shutting Our Eyes
Spectres from the Archive	173	(28)
Martyn Jolly
Les Revenants: Barbara Astman, Ted Hiebert, Martyn Jolly, and Roberto Stephenson	185	(6)
Denis Farley: Irradiations II	191	(4)
Emanations: Susan Butler, Lindy Lee, and Arthur Renwick	195	(6)
Seeing between the Lines: Imagination, Nothing but ``This,'' in Max Dean and Michael Snow	201	(26)
Catherine Bedard
Iain Baxter&	211	(4)
Marie-Josee Jean
John Armstrong and Paul Collins: Jim ->	215	(4)
Intervals: Marc Audette and Barbara Steinman	219	(4)
Adad Hannah: Cuba Still (Remake)	223	(4)
Steve Reinke
Gottfried Helnwein's American Prayer: A Fable in Pixels and Paint	227	(34)
Petra Halkes
Oil and Water: Michael Flomen, Evan Lee, and Laura Millard	239	(5)
Catherine Bodmer: Lacs	244	(4)
Pascale Beaudet
Little Histories of Modern Art: Jakub Dolejs, Colwyn Griffith, Holly King, Alain Pratte, George Steeves, Jian-Xing Too, Helen Verbanz, Laurel Woodcock	248	(13)
Notes and Figures	261	(18)
Bibliography	279	(10)
List of Exhibitions	289	(16)
Contributors	305	(14)
Acknowledgments	319	(4)
Index	323