Afterimage articles from January 1998

Afterimage archives from January 1998

Remembering Shirley Clarke. (actress)
January 1, 1998... Shirley Clarke was my mentor. I learned more from her than anyone else I ever knew - mostly about how to be a mentor, how to energize people, how to push them to do good work, how not to give up when the technology was failing, the people...

Contemporary photography in Santa Fe.
January 1, 1998... The American Southwest in general, and the New Mexican communities of Santa Fe and Taos in particular, have long held a fascination for artists. Whether arriving in northern New Mexico by chance or design, an extraordinary variety of visual...

On the road: Flaherty 1997. (Robert Flaherty Film Seminar)
January 1, 1998... Last October, mediamakers, critics, academics, programmers and activists converged at Ithaca College for "Exploration in Memory and Modernity," a new kind of Robert Flaherty Seminar. Neither a film festival nor an academic conference, the...

Bay Area photography. (San Francisco Bay Area)
January 1, 1998... San Francisco's photography scene continues to be notable for its dedication to experimentation, as well as the perpetuation of straight photography among local artists and institutions. Sandra Phillips, curator at the San Francisco Museum of...

Beyond the glitz. (22nd Toronto International Film Festival)
January 1, 1998... Every year at the Toronto International Film Festival I get more anxious thinking that small independent films will get lost in the festival's increasing glitziness; but every year there seem to be fewer such films to worry about. Toronto is now...

Primitive myths: photography and the American South.
January 1, 1998... Regionalism in photography can be thought of in two different ways. The first is the notion of regional "schools," two examples being the Chicago school associated with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at the Illinois Institute of Design in the...

Migrating capital and the optics of place: globalization and representation.
January 1, 1998... During the first quarter of 1996, the mail order clothing company Lands' End circulated several catalogs that highlight Peru as its source of cotton and use images of Peruvian workers to advertise its clothing. At the same time, the company's...

Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present.
January 1, 1998... The introduction to Illuminations opens with the question: Why women? Why leave men out of this ample and capacious selection? The irony is that men are very much present in so far as they are the focus of most of the writing; and ample and...

Fantastic narratives. (Dia Center for the Arts exhibition)
January 1, 1998... A fierce-looking, muscular woman hammers away at the husk of a car in the middle of the Australian desert outback; a white-haired man crawls across a dusty road on hands and knees, grinning wildly; a young blond woman gently cradles an Aboriginal...

Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media.
January 1, 1998... Given the dearth of critical and sustained attention to the representation, and lack thereof, of Latino/as in the United States, the publication of Clara E. Rodriguez's Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media is a significant...

L.A. bodies. (photography exhibitions in Los Angeles galleries)
January 1, 1998... To lose faith in the human body is to deny the mystic process of life and death, says French photographer Lucien Clergue. Clergue, a native of the archaelogically rich city of Arles, delights in fetishizing the human body as something more than...

Oh, Rapunzel. (video recording)
January 1, 1998... It is possible to view Cecelia Condit's new video Oh, Rapunzel (1996) as part of a continuing work, not only in the sense of the latest addition to an ongoing project, but in the old sense of the alchemist's undertaking, the transmutation of...