CV132 - Donigan Cumming, Primer – Mona Hakim

Ciel variable 132 - Tableaux (Summer 2026) 
Portfolio (Individual article, digital version)

Donigan Cumming, Primer
A Vivid Framing of Exchanges
— Mona Hakim

Within the confined space of a parking attendant’s booth, where doors and windows act as a frame, Donigan Cumming captured the gestures and expressions of passersby on the fly, producing full-length portraits or landscape-format images. Left as negatives for forty-five years, these images eventually appeared in an unusually sized book. While the atypical nature of this limited edition publication makes it a collector’s item, Mona Hakim considers its refinement to lie in its subject, an endangered one: physical exchanges and portraits of individuals drawn directly from public space.

Details

Language : English & French
Digital Version : PDF 25.5 Mo

Bibliographical Notice

Mona Hakim, “Donigan Cumming, Primer – A Vivid Framing of Exchanges” in Ciel variable, No. 132, “Tableaux”, Montreal, 2026, p. 10-19.

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