Archäologie, Beaux Arts, Ethnography, Théâtre-Vérité, Couleur Européenne, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise, Varietes

This catalogue accompanied an exhibition by the conceptual photographer Christopher Williams at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, running January 13 to March 6, 2005.

Its unusually long title strings together the names of several bodies of work shown together, in a mix of English and French, a structure characteristic of Williams's practice of grouping images by category, source, or production process rather than by subject alone. The catalogue was curated by Claudia Beck and includes an essay by John Miller, and runs 45 pages.

Williams is a Los Angeles based artist whose photographs, often shot to commercial or archival specifications, examine the systems of image production, from advertising to state photography, that shape how photographs are made to look neutral. His exhibitions and catalogues, of which this is one, typically foreground the conditions of the photograph's making as much as its ostensible subject.