Andre Dubois a prominant Montreal Pin Hole photographer and past developer of prints for commercial photographer's in 70's to 90's at St.Catherine Apt where I now reside.
I had the good fortune to meet Andre and his wife Barbara while they visited my apartment (their old apt.) around St.Patrick's Day to take an image from his usual locale through his studio window (now a bedroom) towards St.Catherine St. He was generous to leave images he developed in the old dark room that he took with a pin-hole camera of the apartment and surrounding area's in the 80's. These are some of the images Dubois has donated to the apartment:
Intentions: To capture a full city block
Description: The beautiful aesthic of pin hole comes through with a slight vingetting around the edges and the shadows created by the trees give texture to the flat cement. The slight distortion of the wide angle lens creates two sides to the image and a pyramid type shape created by the skyscrappers and apartment buildings increases feeling of depth.
Good/Bad: The repition of the cars and windows of the buildings are impressionistic. Especialy with the high contrast between the sky and deep shadows created by natures canopy on the road. Surrealism is encorporated by combining two wide angled images into 1 picture gives the viewer a sense they are looking at something they'd never be able to see with their own eyes. I'd want a bit more detail in the shadows of the builgings and I'd like to see some human life mixed in with the architectural and commercial aspects of the urbanscape.
Evaluation: I'm more than impressed with his work and I'll be visiting his exhibit before jetting off on a 25 hour journey to Indonesia (Bali and Lambok) and I suggest all in class go to this:
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