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Maurice Amiel

Maurice Amiel

Maurice Amiel, M. Arch. (U.C. Berkeley) is retired professor of Environmental Design at the School of Design, University of Quebec at Montreal, where he was involved mainly in environment-behaviour teaching and applied research projects. In order to promote environmental awareness, he has turned after retiring to documenting and writing about various physical and human agents contributing to a sense of self, place and sociability.

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Signs and the City

By Maurice Amiel on January 13, 2021

What do signs do in the city? Signs in the city are graphic elements, verbal and non-verbal, usually applied to buildings, whose function is to... Read more →
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Bye Bye 2020 … a mute testimony

By Maurice Amiel on December 9, 2020

The end of an era? The feature image shows a sunset lit sky marking the end of a day. I could not find a better metaphor for this moment of... Read more →
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Photography: A Way of Seeing

By Maurice Amiel on November 18, 2020

Foreword My practical experience with photography, my familiarity with its canon and basic reading on its specificity as a visual art form, bring me... Read more →
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Photographing people in places

By Maurice Amiel on November 4, 2020

The feature image …  … taken by R. Doisneau, shows clearly the mutual interaction of people and place in defining a particular situation, in... Read more →
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The Home Place and its “patterns for living”

By Maurice Amiel on October 21, 2020

In the company of Wright Morris Wright Morris came to photography through writing about the rural environment of the American Mid-West, at a given... Read more →
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Territoriality In Pandemic Times

By Maurice Amiel on September 30, 2020

In the company of the late Lynne Cohen … … artist-photographer par excellence of interiors devoid of human presence but replete with... Read more →
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A Thirst for Seeing

By Maurice Amiel on September 2, 2020

Between two depressions Let us call a cat a cat … we are all these days in a state of relative depression, cheated, by public safety necessity, of... Read more →
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Snapshots and Society

By Maurice Amiel on August 12, 2020

Definition The best definition of a snapshot is the one given of  photography by the famous French snapshot artist Jacques-Henri... Read more →
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Through the Car Window

By Maurice Amiel on August 5, 2020

As seen by famous street photographers Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, and Robert Frank, a car window is not just an opening through which to... Read more →
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Of the car and life …

By Maurice Amiel on July 22, 2020

… as seen by Robert Frank, Willy Ronis, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Louis Faurer These days of limited movement seem to favor a bit of nostalgia for... Read more →
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