Phyllis Lambert — Une manière d’habiter

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Phyllis Lambert — Une manière d’habiter
Abstract
The author notes that photography is inextricable from Phyllis Lambert’s career. Architectural surveys, studies of urban space, activism, advertising, project documentation, archives, media relations, and exhibition catalogues are based on this tool, which is as essential to modern life as concrete. Nevertheless, the author contends that it is only in the twilight of her life that Lambert has put herself forward as a photographer, and Lambert does so with sincere modesty. The author argues that good architects recognize the value of both materials experts and talented workers, and they avoid claiming to have invented the three-quarter-inch screw. Think about how the photographs that Brian Merrett took of Shaughnessy House were seminal in the establishment of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), or how Louise Abbott’s documentation of the covert destruction of the Van Horne Mansion was the catalyst for Save Montreal.
Publication
Ciel variable: art, photo, médias, culture
Date
Été 2023
Volume
No. 123
Pages
60-69
URL
chrome-extension://hbgjioklmpbdmemlmbkfckopochbgjpl/https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cv/2023-n123-cv08033/102072ac.pdf
Language
fr
Citation
Hardy-Vallée, Michel. “Phyllis Lambert — Une manière d’habiter.” Ciel variable: art, photo, médias, culture, t 2023. chrome-extension://hbgjioklmpbdmemlmbkfckopochbgjpl/https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cv/2023-n123-cv08033/102072ac.pdf.
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