CV118 - Chuck Samuels, Becoming Photography — Sylvain Campeau
Ciel variable 118 - Exhibiting Photography (Fall 2021)
Expositions (Single Article, Digital Version)
Chuck Samuels, Devenir la photographie | Becoming Photography
By Sylvain Campeau
Chuck Samuels has been delving into the mise en abîme of photography, and the photographic portrait, since 1991. Brought together under the title Becoming Photography in exhibitions in two venues, these different bodies of work arise from two paradigms, in Sylvain Campeau’s view: the now-settled issue of the originality of an artwork and the current universe of “unending ramifications.” Campeau acknowledges that the evolution of Samuels’s practice, between appropriation of the reputation of “illustrious forebears” and contestation of the “hierarchy of people and genres,” fits within the “dissolution of barriers among media,” which are now all similar, all digital. “This desire to become the photograph,” he notes, “was deployed at the very moment when it could provoke only out-and-out rejection.”
Details
Language : French and English
Digital Version : PDF, 522 Kb
Bibliographical Reference
Sylvain Campeau, « Chuck Samuels, Devenir la photographie », Ciel variable, no 118, Montréal, 2021, p. 93-94.