From May 31 to September 29, 2024, the McCord Stewart Museum presents Portraits and Fashion – Quebec Photographers Beyond Borders, brings together prints by 17 photographers who are shining a spotlight on Quebec talent on the international stage: Max Abadian, William Arcand, Richard Bernardin, Alex Black, Sacha Cohen, Cristina Gareau, Andréanne Gauthier, Royal Gilbert, Shayne Laverdière, Carl Lessard, Monic Richard, Norman Jean Roy, Étienne Saint-Denis, Nelson Simoneau, Oumayma Ben Tanfous, Xavier Tera and villedepluie.
This original exhibition, with its exuberant scenography, features the artistic, editorial and commercial photography that these photographers practice with equal ease and talent, as well as their more personal work. Accustomed to collaborating with major fashion magazines, the advertising world and the music scene, they capture images that are sometimes stripped of all artifice, sometimes sophisticatedly cinematic, but always imbued with great sensitivity towards their models – whether famous or unknown.In addition to stunning fashion photographs, a gallery of over a hundred unprecedented iconic portraits unfolds before our eyes, from Céline Dion, U2 and Charlotte Cardin to Nelson Mandela, Zidane, Elisapie, Adele, Barbie Ferreira, Mika and Les Louanges. Around twenty videos were created for the occasion, including a multisurface projection by the creative team at Rodeo FX. These contents provide exclusive insight into the artistic methods of the photographers, along with interviews from artists whose portraits are featured in the exhibition.
This project follows on from several previous fashion photography exhibitions at the McCord Stewart Museum, including Horst: Photographer of Style (2015) and Norman Parkinson: Always in Style (2024), reflecting its mission to examine the different forms of artistic expression that can be found in Montreal and beyond, both in the past and today. It also resonates with the remarkable Photography and Dress, Fashion and Textiles collections, which position the Museum as a North American benchmark in these fields of collecting and museology.
Portraits and Fashion – Photographers from Quebec beyond borders
From May 31 to September 29, 2024
McCord Stewart Museum
690 Sherbrooke St W
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1E9
Canada
www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca