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A feature from the Fall 2010 issue of Canadian Art
Lynne Cohen: Come Inside
For more than three decades, Lynne Cohen’s genius has been to pause in transitional spaces, think about them, look carefully and take photographs. And not just any photographs, but ones made with a large-format view camera, the tool that most fully exploits the medium’s capacity for deep description.
Boss Bear
The sculptors John McEwen and Dennis Gill and I are running a small skiff down a wilderness river to Georgian Bay. It’s a peaceful late-September afternoon but I know that we’re being watched by moose, deer, birds and beavers. And while there may well be bears out there too, for sure we’ve got one in the boat.