DE LA CURIOSITÉ, PETITE ANATOMIE D'UN REGARD

Authors: Bernard Arcand, Olivier Asselin, Jonathan Crary, Reesa Greenberg, André Gunthert, Johanne Lamoureux, Vincent Lavoie

Artists: Lynne Cohen, John Coplans, Joan Fontcuberta, Paul den Hollander, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Joel-Peter Witkin

Under the editorial direction of Olivier Asselin and Vincent Lavoie
Texts in their original languages
1992, 110 pages, $10.60, ISBN: 978-2-9800957-2-6
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Photography defines a type of gaze; it is a desire to see and to know. This desire is not sparked by the beautiful, goodness or truth, but rather by the rare, the unusual, the hybrid and monstrous, the morbid, secret or licentious. Curiosity, by way of observation, establishes a dissymmetric relation between the object of the gaze and the subject that casts it. More than any other image, the photograph deploys this particular and unique relation, and thus transforms whatever it designates into something strange. The authors examine this aspect of photography in various ways.

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