Background
Penny Cousineau-Levine was born on March 31, 1947 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
https://www.amazon.com/Faking-Death-Canadian-Photography-Imagination/dp/0773528261
2003
artist curator professor photography theorist
Penny Cousineau-Levine was born on March 31, 1947 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Penny Cousineau-Levine holds a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of Manitoba (1969) and a Master of Fine Arts from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York.
Since 1977 Penny Cousineau-Levine has been employed as a lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa, Ontario. She is a full professor in the department of visual arts at the University of Ottawa.
Penny Cousineau-Levine was awarded a research grant by the Canada Council in 1978. She is known for her book Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2003. In this publication, she explores the specificity of Canadian photography from 1950 to 2000. The book includes reproductions and observations of more than 120 Canadian photographes, including Michel Lambeth, Charles Gagnon, Diana Thorneycroft, Sandra Semchuk et Raymonde April.
