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Maurice Amiel

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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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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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Visual Discoursing (Part 3)

By Maurice Amiel on July 8, 2020

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 →
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Visual Discoursing (Part 2)

By Maurice Amiel on July 1, 2020

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 →
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Visual Discoursing

By Maurice Amiel on June 17, 2020

« 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 →
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A night walk around the block

By Maurice Amiel on May 27, 2020

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 →
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The people, yes. (Part 2)

By Maurice Amiel on May 13, 2020

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 →
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The people, yes

By Maurice Amiel on April 29, 2020

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 →
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Lit Spaces … Night Places

By Maurice Amiel on April 15, 2020

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 →
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Not Just Objects

By Maurice Amiel on April 1, 2020

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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