Afterimage articles from January 1996

Afterimage archives from January 1996

Unpacking colonialism.
January 1, 1996... A two-day conference in Texas last fall brought together scholars and artists from around the world to explore and interrogate the relationship between exile and representations of "home." Hamid Naficy, one of the conference's organizers,...

Strategies for change. (conference of community-based organizers and independent mediamakers)
January 1, 1996... "Using Media/Engaging Communities" was a day-long conference for community-based organizers and independent mediamakers sponsored by the Paul Robeson Fund and organized by Communication for Change. Attended by approximately 60 participants, the...

Ecstasy of information.
January 1, 1996...... a strange and obscure trust of man in man and of man in the earth, of a faith without dogma, time or place which the worst denials of barbarism and civilization have never been able to root out entirely from his heart. Nothing, nothing at...

Born under a visual sign. (photography books for young readers)
January 1, 1996... Ever since it became apparent that baby boomers had decided to reproduce, smart money has gone "young": Disney's profit margins are off the charts, children's computer programs and CD-ROMs top best-seller lists, and Sega and Nintendo continue to...

Scavenging the landscape: Walker Evans and American life.
January 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION The Great American Depression, spanning the 1930s, inscribed into the culture a psychic crisis. Faith in industrial ingenuity, heralded as "progressive," came unhinged. By 1933, four years after the stock market crash, one quarter...

Walker Evans: A Biography.
January 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION The Great American Depression, spanning the 1930s, inscribed into the culture a psychic crisis. Faith in industrial ingenuity, heralded as "progressive," came unhinged. By 1933, four years after the stock market crash, one quarter...

Walker Evans: The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection.
January 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION The Great American Depression, spanning the 1930s, inscribed into the culture a psychic crisis. Faith in industrial ingenuity, heralded as "progressive," came unhinged. By 1933, four years after the stock market crash, one quarter...

Cultural commitments: rethinking arts funding policy.
January 1, 1996... As the thirtieth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) came and went, uncelebrated, last September, the agency was hunkered down, dispirited, trying to stay out of the Congressional crossfire. The NEA's funding levels - and its...

Theorizing in real time: hyperaesthetics for the technoculture.
January 1, 1996... NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE Infinitely tiny partitions of time contain the equivalent of what used to be contained in the infinite greatness of historical time. - Paul Virilio(1) I suffer from nostalgia for the future. I am one of those...

Separating art from life. (exhibition of photographer Tina Modotti's works)
January 1, 1996... In a 1925 letter to Edward Weston, Tina Modotti emphasized the difficulty she experienced reconciling her art and her life: "Art cannot exist without life I admit but... in my case life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally...

Encountering culture. (photo exhibit at the Nederlands Foto Institut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
January 1, 1996... The exhibition and symposium "Counter Cultures," Photo International Rotterdam 1995, hosted by the Nederlands Foto Instituut, is intended as a prelude to a much more extensive photography festival that will take place in Rotterdam at the end of...

Betty Hahn: Photography or Maybe Not.
January 1, 1996... As a graduate student at Indiana University in 1964, Betty Hahn began a personal and artistic quest when she made linocuts from family portraits she found. In her first body of work she hinted at the question that has engaged her ever since: what...

Pictures at an Execution: An Inquiry into the Subject of Murder.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... In the now famous 1991 case of KQED vs. Daniel B. Vasquez, a California public television station sued the warden of San Quentin for the rights to broadcast the execution of convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris. Taking this case as her starting...