Center
of photography
PROGRAME
idea inspired from the International
Center
of Photography
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A place for the
promotion, diffusion, exibition and education
of the photographic medium
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This place would
hold three types of exibitions:
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for
the established photographsof broad recongnition
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for
the many fine non profefssionalphotographers of Montreal
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for
a permanant colection
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The center
would offer programes, workshops and seminars for all
level students and subjects.
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technical
skills
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new
medias
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exploring
different cameras
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artistic
photography, photojournalisim, documentary, ect
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archival center
for a living memory of our "C"ulture and culture.
SITE
It would be
sited in Montreal the "tete d'Ilot" borded by Lucien -L'Allier
on the west, de la Montagne on the east and the Canadian Pacific
train tracks on the south.
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Some of the main
particularities of this site are
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has
a clear,unubstructed ,180 degree , south facing view out
on Point St-Charles, the St-Laurence river and the Eastern
Townships.
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two
streets sloping a from north to south
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the
the grade level has a variation of around 18ft
from west to east
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beded
underground we find Lucien-L'Allier subway station wich
the second
deepest,most
impressive andmonumental subway station of Montreal
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its
at a 3D cross roads of infrastructure with a subway runing
at 90ft below grade, the train tracks runing at 12 to 20ft
over a multi sloped grade, the Ville Marie tunel express way
just south of the site and two streets slopping down
POSSIBLE
LEAD
1. A
photo is rarely shown alone. Their are grouped in photo albums to
tell about a story, a jurney, a time, a theme. Thees photographic
ensembles come to life throught movement, the movement of pages
of a photo album , the movement of people through a space of representation.
Like a cimematic projection, the building becomes the film or pelicule
,are bodies the motor of the projector and our conscience the screen .
2. A fragmentation
of the museum throught the public realm within the subway station.
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