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Michael Snow: My Motherâ€™s Collection of Photographs

By (artist) Michael Snow, Afterword by Martha Langford

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A captivating selection of family snapshots taken from his mother's photo albums, Michael Snowâ€™s latest artistâ€™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 artistâ€™s book, which is dedicated to the life of his adventurous mother, Marie-Antoinette FranÃ§oise Carmen Levesque Snow Roig, whose trove of family photographs provide a narrative throughline here. Snow consolidates his motherâ€™s photo albums, presenting a total of 1,500 images. In a tenderly penned foreword, he explains the simple impetus for the project: â€œ[The photographs] are so beautiful and so historic that I wish to share them with others.â€ While he has integrated small samples of these albums into his work beforeâ€”notably figuring in his landmark catalog for the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1970, Michael Snow/A Surveyâ€”this volume provides a much larger and more unified selection. As a result, the compiled images tell a more complete biographical storyâ€”one that Snow leaves intact on the surface. He brings his own layer of interpretation to the photographs by drawing out patterns within the collection and his motherâ€™s writing. Snow creates an album that is fully his own, embracing, as art historian Martha Langford describes, a â€œdeep understanding and surrender to form.â€