Faking Death
Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The Institute for Research on Public Policy
Published:10th May '04
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Examines the work of over 120 Canadian photographers, revealing the aspects of Canadian identity and imagination. Contrasting Canadian photography with American and European traditions, it shows that Canadian photographers are often preoccupied with a place that is "elsewhere," a doubling and duality that also occurs in Canadian literature.The first book-length, in-depth study of contemporary Canadian art photography.
'"How refreshing to stumble on Penny Cousineau-Levine's wonderful Faking Death, a thorough and entertaining study of that least (or, until I read this book, formerly least) entertaining subject, Canadian high art photography ... In a handful of lucid, cleanly written chapters, each dappled with enough well-researched and perfectly placed examples and samples to choke a national museum, Cousineau-Levine convincingly charts a cohesive strategy for reading Canadian art photography as both peculiar, indeed delicious cultural phenomenon and an exciting, internationally valuable achievement." R.M. Vaughan, National Post "The narratives of displacement, dislocation, ambivalence and fear that haunt Couineau-Levine's text are productive and pertinent tools with which to begin unpacking the intended and subconscious meanings of contemporary art photography."--The Art Book, September 2004
ISBN: 9780773528260
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 916g
336 pages