Vid Ingelevics: Hunter/Gatherer
Kim Fullerton

Using a large format camera to insure clarity, precision and the illusion of factuality, Ingelevics explores the limits of historicization through documentation. This publication presents two bodies of work: photographs of hunting platforms scattered in the countryside and a series of images of woodpiles begun in Switzerland and continuing in Canada. The title refers to the prehistoric nature of the activities of hunting and the gathering and is, at the same time, an apt description of the activity of photography itself. Ingelevics’ intention is to show that photographs are not themselves historical objects but depend upon contexts and captions to allow them to contribute to history.

Southern Alberta Art Gallery (02/2008) 54 pp col. ill. 12.5 x 9.5 softcover 978-1-89469945-7 $25.00 Can. ($26.95 U.S./ 16 euros)

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Vid Ingelevics: Alltagsgeschichten (Some Histories of Everyday Life)
Modris Eksteins & Blake Fitzpatrick

"Alltagsgeschichten" is a genre of historical investigation that emerged in the 1980s primarily in Germany. Its practitioners concentrate on the everyday and the repetitive to the exclusion of anything deemed great or exceptional. Through photographs, text and sculptural elements, the Latvian-born artist attempts to meld this approach with living memory and historical representation as they pertain to World War II and its effects on displaced persons, particularly his own family. Text in English and French.

CMCP/MCPC (1999) 60 p., 8x8 in / 20x20 cm, 56 ill (16 col.) 0968490441 $2.99 Can./U.S (3 Euros)

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