PUBLICATION 2011

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal produces an important, lavishly illustrated publication for each presentation of the event. More than an exhibition catalogue, the publication is an autonomous and authoritative reference book edited by the guest curator and addressing his or her theme. The publication gathers a curatorial essay, essays by renowned authors, and a rich iconographic colour section dedicated to contemporary artists’ works. This reference work has a print run of 1,500 copies, is entirely bilingual (English and French), and is distributed in Canada and abroad.

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2011
Lucidity. Inward Views
Edited by Anne-Marie Ninacs
Guest Curator for the 12^th presentation

In this lavishly illustrated book, guest curator Anne-Marie Ninacs introduces the 25 artists whose works are exhibited in this international biennale of contemporary photography. The publication also features new essays by philosophers, art historians, and theorists of visual culture, who shed light on the relationships between photography and lucidity. The artists presented here in a way turn their cameras towards themselves and conceive of lens-based arts as an introspective process, an opportunity for meditation, a mode of consciousness, even as a means of revealing the unconscious. At a time when misery in the world is multiplying, the movement toward a form of photography that seeks to reveal the invisible conflicts and traces of wisdom within ourselves seems urgent. This book humbly cultivates the hope that such photography can give us all a bit of the “transparency of mind” that is the psychological meaning given by the modern world to the term lucidity.

AUTHORS
Pierre Bertrand – Philosopher, Collège Édouard-Montpetit (Canada)
Maxime Coulombe – Art Historian and Sociologist, Université Laval (Canada)
Robert Enright – Founder and Senior Contributing Editor of Border Crossings magazine,
Research Professor in Art Criticism, University of Guelph (Canada)
Roger Lipsey – Independant Art Historian (USA)
Anne-Marie Ninacs – Guest Curator, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2011 (Canada)
Christine Ross – Art Historian, James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History, McGill University (Canada)
Richard Shusterman – Philosopher, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities,
Florida Atlantic University (USA)

Official Launch: September 8, 2011

$34.95
345 pages (143 colour pages), 26 x 21 cm, hardcover
Entirely bilingual, English + French
ISBN 978-2-9808020-3-4
Publisher: Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal
Graphic Design: Marc-André Roy – Makara.ca
Distribution in Canada: Édipresse
Distribution in France, Belgium, Switzerland: r-diffusion
Distribution in the rest of Europe: Roundhouse Group, via Orca Book Services

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RETAIL OUTLETS
• in bookstores
• online, including the Art Now Bookstore (late January 2012)



For more information, please contact:
Marie-Catherine Leroux, Editorial Coordinator and Communication
514.390.0383 | mc.leroux@moisdelaphoto.com