Afterimage articles from January 2000

Afterimage archives from January 2000

HASSELBLAD AWARD.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The recipient of the 1999 Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography is Cindy Sherman. Sherman was born in New Jersey in 1954 and grew up in Long Island. She graduated from Buffalo State College in New York in 1976...

PHOTO IN PHILLY.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... PhotoSession 99 Philadelphia Ethical Society Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 6, 1999 KATHERINE SCHOENFELDER As with most conferences, Philadelphia's "PhotoSession 99" touched on a wealth of topics but left synopsis...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The International Center of Photography in New York City has announced the public phase of its $11 million Capital Campaign to fund the center's move from its historic location on Fifth Avenue to a larger building at its midtown site at 43rd...

NEA 2000 FISCAL YEAR GRANTS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced its first round of grants for the 2000 fiscal year. The NEA was allotted a budget of $97.6 million for Fiscal Year 2000--the same as FY 1998, with $79.6 million of this total figure...

DIGGING FOR IDENTITY.
January 1, 2000... VideoArchaeology: International VideoArt Festival Sofia, Bulgaria October 1-22, 1999 PERRY BARD In Bulgaria, where few people own video cameras and Internet access costs $25 per month while the average monthly salary is $100,...

COMPUTER CULTURE.
January 1, 2000... SIGGRAPH 99 August 8-13, 1999 Los Angeles, California BARBARA MILLER Over the past few years I have begun to introduce computer graphics (CG) into my art history and cultural studies courses. It is not that the traditional arts...

THE VIEW FROM UP THERE.
January 1, 2000... Toronto international Film Festival Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 9-18, 1999 One of the highlights of the Toronto International Film Festival is the Perspective Canada program, which introduces new work by established and...

TORONTO WITH A DASH OF DIOP.
January 1, 2000... Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 9-18, 1999 It is best to arrive at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) with a careful road map that includes room for diversion. My map this year...

Dial "P" for Panties: Narrative Photography in the 1990s.
January 1, 2000... As a photographer, an art historian and a feminist, I have been bothered for some time by a particular strand of contemporary photography. It started as a joke: I had seen so many quasi-narrative art photographs of half-dressed young women that...

The Girls Without the Camera in Their Heads: An Interview with Leslie Thornton.
January 1, 2000... Leslie Thornton's film Old Worldy (1997) and its "rearticuladon/sequel" Another Worldy (1999) open with "The Lucky Girls" dancing atop a New York City skyscraper to the music of an all-female band. Among the many other dancers whose...

FLYING BULLETS OR FLYING CIRCUS?
January 1, 2000... Examinations by Elizabeth Stephens Hartnett Gallery University of Rochester Rochester, New York November 18-December 12,1999 Elizabeth Stephens's recent gallery exhibition, "Examinations," was composed of six...

DREAMS DECREED.
January 1, 2000... Propaganda and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US The Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. July 3-October 3,1999 International Center of Photography New York, New York October 20,...

EURO BYTES.(Review)
January 1, 2000... New Media Culture in Europe edited by Frank Boyd, Cathy Brickwood, Andreas Broeckmann, Lisa Haskel, Eric Kluitenberg and Marleen Stikker Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie and The Virtual Platform, 1999 (distributed by Idea Books) 144...

MILLIONS OF COLORS.
January 1, 2000... Las Twines by Pepon Osorio Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, New York Almost a year after its initial exposure in a storefront in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx, 1999 MacArthur Fellow Pepon Osorio's installation "Las...