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.
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 →
… 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 →
Something there is about a tree … … a trunk, branches and foliage are the visible parts of a tree the organization of which relates mostly to... Read more →
The frame and the edges All photographic images have edges that define the limits of their subject and significant context, in as legible and... Read more →
« La belle noiseuse » That was the title of a film featuring the late Michel Piccoli in the role of an aging painter seeking to complete his... Read more →
From my balcony, under a clearing sunset sky, the pattern of lights on my street is mostly made of rectangular lit areas but for two soft edged... Read more →
In the spirit of Carl Sandburg and Garry Winogrand To introduce the second essay of this occasional series combining a paradigmatic image, with... Read more →
In the spirit of Carl Sandburg and Lee Friedlander I introduce here an occasional series of photo essays combining a paradigmatic image, with some... Read more →
In the company of Lyonel Feininger and Brassai Lyonel Feininger was a painter, working between the two world wars, who was on the faculty of the... Read more →
Solitude and singularity When in solitary confinement, courtesy of Covid-19, the experience of solitude is accompanied by moments of heightened... Read more →
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