Arnaud Maggs

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Arnaud Maggs (born 1926) is a Canadian artist and photographer. Born in Montreal, he lives in Toronto. Maggs is best known for stark portraits arranged in grid-like arrangements.[1]


Arnaud Maggs

Joseph Beuys: 100 Profile Views, Düsseldorf, 21.10.80 (detail), 1980
Born 1926
Montreal, Quebec
Nationality Canadian
Field photography, conceptual art
Awards 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts

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[edit] Biography

After training and working as a graphic designer, Maggs turned to commercial photography in the 1960s. At the age of 47, Maggs decided to become a visual artist focusing on photography and conceptualism focusing on such things as death notices and tags documenting child labour in French textile factories.[1]

[edit] Works

An early signature style of Maggs are his black-and-white portraits taken from the front, side and back, and presented in grid formation[2] exemplified in the internationally acclaimed portraits of Joseph Beuys, Joseph Beuys: 100 Frontal Views, Düsseldorf, 21.10.80 and Joseph Beuys: 100 Profile Views, Düsseldorf, 21.10.80.[3] Created in Beuys' Düsseldorf home in 1980, the images appear to be identical, but are 200 different photographs of Beuys attempting to sit completely still.[4] In 2006, Maggs was awarded the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.[5]

[edit] Bibliography

  • Allen, Karyn. Arnaud Maggs Photographs 1975-84. Calgary: Nickle Arts Museum, 1984.
  • Alleti, Vince. "Special Collections." The Village Voice (18 August 1992).
  • Bedard, Catherine and Keziere, Russell. Arnaud Maggs: Notes Capitales. Paris: Canadian Cultural Centre, 2000.
  • Blanchette, Manon. "A Work by Arnaud Maggs." Le Journal du Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, (November/December 1990).
  • Campbell, James D. "Arnaud Maggs at Centre Saidye Bronfman and at Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montreal." C Magazine (Spring 1991).
  • Craven, George M. Object & Image. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1982.
  • Franchette, Frédérique. "Double foyer pour Atget." Liberation (19 December, 2000).
  • Goldberg, Vicki. "Seven Thousand Pictures are Better than One." The New York Times (23 August 1992).
  • Holubizky, Ihor. Numbering. Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1990.
  • Jenkner, Ingrid. Arnaud Maggs Numberworks. Guelph: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1989.
  • Keziere, Russell. "Arnaud Maggs: Convergence Without Coincidence." CV Photo #39 (Summer 1997).
  • Lindberg, E. Theodore. Arnaud Maggs, An Exhibition of Selected Works 1981-83. Vancouver: The *Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, 1984.
  • Maclear, Kyo. "Arnaud Maggs." Toronto Life (April 1999).
  • Macwilliam, David. Arnaud Maggs. Paris: Centre Culturel Canadien, 1980.
  • Monk, Philip and Sutnik, Maia-Mari. Arnaud Maggs: Works 1976-1999. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1999.
  • Portis, Ben. "Evidence of Existence: A conversation with Toronto-based photographer Arnaud Maggs." Art on Paper (May/June 2008).
  • Roegiers, Patrick. double vie, double vue. Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 1996.
  • Stainback, Charles. Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now. New York: International Center of Photography, 1992.
  • Sramek, Peter. "Seeing People/Seeing Space." British Journal of Photography (18 May 1984).
  • Walsh, George. Contemporary Photographers. London, England: St. James Press, 1981.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Canada Council for the Arts Biography. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.
  2. ^ http://www.macm.org/en/expositions/44.html
  3. ^ http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggavma/2006/yh127864873627123010.htm
  4. ^ http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggavma/2006/yh127864873627123010.htm
  5. ^ http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggavma/2006/ud127864841180459750.htm

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