Afterimage articles from December 2002

Afterimage archives from December 2002

Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 1902-2002.
December 22, 2002... Manuel Alvarez Bravo died on Saturday, October 19, 2002 at his residence in Mexico City. Alvarez Bravo was virtually the last surviving artist who had a direct connection to the avant-garde art movements that took place in Mexico during the...

ICP announces Triennial exhibition.(International Center of Photography)
December 22, 2002... The International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York has announced a new initiative, the "ICP Triennial" exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States. This inaugural event has the thematic focus and title "Strangers," and is...

The 2002 Hasselblad Award in Photography has been presented to Canadian Photographer Jeff Wall. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... The 2002 Hasselblad Award In Photography has been presented to Canadian Photographer Jeff Wall. Trained as an art historian and known for his expansive light boxes of staged scenes, Wall's works have been exhibited for over 30 years in such...

Ann Arbor Film Festival appoints Chrisstina Hamilton as Director. (Notes from the Field).
December 22, 2002... Ann Arbor Film Festival appoints Chrisstina Hamilton as Director. Hamilton studied film and theater at New York University and Indiana University. Prior to coming to the Ann Arbor Film Festival, she was the Arts and Culture Coordinator for...

United States Postal Services (USPS) honors American Photographers with a New Series of Stamps. (Notes from the Field).
December 22, 2002... United States Postal Services (USPS) Honors American Photographers with a New Series of Stamps. In June of 2002 the USPS issued The Masters of American Photography stamp series which includes examples of portrait, documentary, landscape and...

Artslink announces 2002 Residency Awards. (Notes from the Field).
December 22, 2002... Artslink Announces 2002 Residency Awards. Artists from Central and Eastern Europe have been awarded residencies in various U.S. arts organizations to work in their respective arts disciplines while working in their host communities, sharing...

Niepce's first photograph analyzed by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... Niepce's First Photograph Analyzed by The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). In collaboration with the Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, GCI conducted tests to decipher Niepce's development process. The scientists found that the photographer...

The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art changes its name. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Changes Its Name. Established in 1968 as The New Gallery, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art has changed its name to Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA Cleveland) in celebration of its...

The Wexner Center wins NAMAC Award. (Notes from the Field).(National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture )
December 22, 2002... The Wexner Center wins NAMAC Award. The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) has awarded the Wexner Center for the Arts' media arts department the "Outstanding Organization" Award. The media arts department holds year-round...

Columbia College in Chicago has appointed a new director for The Museum of Contemporary Photography. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... Columbia College in Chicago has appointed a new director for The Museum of Contemporary Photography. Rod Slemmons has been selected by the school president and board of trustees to take over the directorship. Slemmons received his BA and MA in...

pARTs Photographic Arts. (Notes from the Field).(renamed Minnesota Center for Photography)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... Minneapolis-based pARTs Photographic Arts has been renamed the Minnesota Center for Photography (MCP). The MCP will continue to offer classes and workshops to the public while completely renovating their current facilities. A commercial...

The winners of the Center for Documentary Studies' 12th annual Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize are photographer Dona Ann McAdams and writer Brad Kessler. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... The winners of the Center for Documentary Studies' 12th annual Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize are photographer Dona Ann McAdams and writer Brad Kessler. Their project, "The Garden of Eden: Living with Schizophrenia on Coney Island," will be...

The New York Foundation for the Arts. (Notes from the Field).(launches database of services for artists at www.nyfa.org)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... The New York Foundation for the Arts has just unveiled NYFA Source, a nationwide databank of grants, residencies, publications and sources of information and assistance for artists of all disciplines. NYFA Source is just one facet of NYFA...

The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). (Notes from the Field).(has a new logo and web site )(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), a trade association of freelance professional photographers, has a new logo and new web site design. The new logo was designed to better reflect the current and future character of the...

Artist Fred Wilson has been named the 2002 recipient of the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... Artist Fred Wilson has been named the 2002 recipient of the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, which honors an American artist whose work has had a significant impact on contemporary visual culture during the previous three years. Each honoree...

New York Foundation for the Arts' publication NYFA Quarterly was relaunched. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... This October, the New York Foundation for the Arts' publication NYFA Quarterly was relaunched. NFYA Quarterly is part of NYFA's multi-resource Information Center, which includes NYFA Current (formerly Arts Wire Current), a free arts online...

Darlene Giordano must sell or how I came to make a film in 48 hours. (News and Report).
December 22, 2002... Being a film- and videomaker for over 15 years I have experienced my fair share of anxiety-ridden, pre-shoot nights, weekends hunched over production grant forms and have spent months--or even years--finishing one project. I know that these...

Third time's a charm. (Report and Essay).(Film festivals.Lake Placid Film Forum. )
December 22, 2002... With film festivals cropping up in all corners of the country, and at least one New England fest even advertising as far away as western New York State, the energetic, young Lake Placid Film Forum stands out as a testament to the significance...

Blasting war. (Report and Essay).(Includes bibiography.)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2002... Mohsen Mahkmalbaf, one of the important lyrical film directors of the Iranian New Wave, published a powerful essay in Monthly Review in 2001 called "Limbs of No Body." He described the destruction of Afghanistan over the last 20 years. The body...

"Vaguely stealthy creatures": Max Kozloff on the poetics of street photography.
December 22, 2002... The critic Max Kozloff frequently reminds his readers of the inherent instability of meaning within the photographic medium. In an early essay (from 1964) he considers "the aesthetic situation in photography to be extremely fluid. Alarmingly...

Stereotypes but: gender roles in contemporary Latin cinema. (Feature).(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Hollywood does not portray Latinas or Latinos very often and when it does, it typically presents them in a predictable, and often unfavorable, light. The public is accustomed to seeing Latinas/os as barrio dwellers with little hope outside of...

Wright Morris: reinventing a photographer. (Feature).
December 22, 2002... Distinctly American: The Photography of Wright Morris By Alan Trachtenberg, with an essay by Ralph Lieberman London: Merrell Publishers, 2002 140 pp./$50.00 (hb) The Home Place Wright Morris, with an introduction by John Hollander...

In defense of civil rights: the paradoxical power of family photographs. (Feature).
December 22, 2002... Activists have long used photographs and text to draw attention to social issues, employing visual strategies that range from muck-racking journalistic exposees to satiric photo-collages. Since 1993, two activists in Amherst, Massachusetts have...

Documentary and anti-graphic: three at the Julien Levy Gallery, 1935. (Feature).
December 22, 2002... In the alliance of modernist imagemaking to public or commercial agencies, there is an added view of the diverse links between surrealism and photography. These associations are marked with historic resonance, especially as they coalesced in...

Public Pedagogy. (Review).(Breaking in to the Movies: Film and the Culture of Politics)(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Breaking in to the Movies: Film and the Culture of Politics by Henry A. Giroux Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2002 297 pp./$59.95 (hb), $24.95 (sb) In the available literature on film studies, dabblers and dilettantes abound....

Almost Lost in Light and Motion. (Review).(Parallax Error)
December 22, 2002... Parallax Error by David Jones with poems by Vincent Quatroche mn Gallery Chicago, Illinois September 6-28, 2002 Categories are everything and nothing in the arts. The difference between painters, printmakers and...

Books received.(Bibliography)
December 22, 2002... BOOKS 13 Conversations About Art and Cultural Race Politics, by Monika Kin Gagnon and Richard Fung. Artextes Editions/150 pp./$14.95 (sb). Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers: professional Image editor's guide to the creative use of...