Michael Snow: My Mother¿s Collection of Photographs

A captivating selection of family snapshots taken from his mother''s photo albums, Michael Snow-s latest artist-s book illuminates patterns and motifs in the passage of time

Over the past half-century, through works such as the milestone avant-garde film Wavelength (1967), Toronto-based artist Michael Snow (born 1928) has explored the nature of perception, consciousness, language and temporality. This last theme is particularly relevant to his latest artist-s book, which is dedicated to the life of his adventurous mother, Marie-Antoinette Fran-se Carmen Levesque Snow Roig, whose trove of family photographs provide a narrative throughline here.
Snow consolidates his mother-s photo albums, presenting a total of 1,500 images. In a tenderly penned foreword, he explains the simple impetus for the project: -[The photographs] are so beautiful and so historic that I wish to share them with others.- While he has integrated small samples of these albums into h