Afterimage articles from January 2005

Afterimage archives from January 2005

Ezra Stoller 1915-2004.(OBITUARIES)(architectural photographers)(Obituary)
January 1, 2005... Ezra Stoller, one of the most gifted architectural photographers of the twentieth century died in his home in Williamstown (MA) on October 29, 2004. His black and white images were such a reference in the field that Frank Lloyd Wright had...

Marnie Gillett 1953-2004.(OBITUARIES)(executive director of SF Camerawork )(Obituary)
January 1, 2005... Marnie Gillett, the executive director of SF Camerawork for the past twenty years, died of breast cancer on Friday December 3, 2004, in her San Francisco home. She will be remembered as an extraordinary, creative and insightful curator as well...

Notes from the field.
January 1, 2005... A Month of Photography in Paris. Every other November since 1984, Paris becomes a hub for the photographic world, this for a duration of a month or two. Le Mois de la Photo, an event supervised and organized by the Maison Europeenne de la...

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... 2003 certainly ended in an exciting way in the visual arts with the first ICP triennial in New York and the controversial Cruel and Tender exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, a show that would then travel to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne....

Michel Auder: Chronicles and Other Scenes.
January 1, 2005... Michel Auder has fervently recorded his life, experiences, and observations on video for over thirty years. Auder is an exemplary video raconteur, whose work elicits a sense of intimacy paired with the conscious pleasure of looking. The...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2005... Our apologies that the portfolio in the Nov/Dec issue was mistitled. The correct title of the work is "Pictures of the Floating World" by Colleen Mullins, Gallery Director of the Minnesota Center for Photography. She can be reached at:...

The red badge of authenticity: a review of Regarding the Pain of Others.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan SONTAG. New York., Picador, 2003, 131 pages/$11.00 "War is the father of all things"--Heraclitus The era of mass media has allowed certain women to establish unique niches for themselves as...

Travel Anonymous.
January 1, 2005... I've finally learned to eat alone, without the crutch of reading materials. That's the first sign of excessive solo travel. The second sign is waking up one night with no idea as to where you are. I'm not referring to a substance-induced...

The Appalachian housewife: Sally Mann at the George Eastman House.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... Had I been content with only one bowl of pasta, I probably would have found a place to park at the George Eastman House in Rochester Thursday evening, October 28th. But alas, I was not, and so I joined the others feverishly circling the stuffed...

In Focus: Themes in Photography.(exhibitions)
January 1, 2005... According to the website of the Albright-Knox Gallery (Buffalo, New York), the current exhibition, In Focus; Themes in Photography, "combines nineteenth-century historic works with recent acquisitions of contemporary photography, and highlights...

The Photograph in Contemporary Art.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... THE PHOTOGRAPH IN CONTEMPORARY ART BY CHARLOTTE COTTON LONDON: THAMES & HUDSON, 2004. 222 PP./$ 16.95 (SB) Although the ambition of this book is "not to create a checklist of all the photographers who merit a mention in a...

John Evans: Collages.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... JOHN EVANS: COLLAGES INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT M. MURDOCK NEW YORK: THE QUANTUCK LANE PRESS, 2004/384 PP./$75 (HB) John Evans was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, grew up in California, and received a BFA (1961) and MFA (1963) from...

Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers on Their Art.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... PHOTOGRAPHY SPEAKS / 150 PHOTOGRAPHERS ON THEIR ART EDITED BY BROOKS JOHNSON NEW YORK: APETURE, 2004/320 PP./ $29.95 (SB) More than just a compilation of texts by numerous important photographers about their art and craft, this...

Books received.
January 1, 2005... Animalerie, by Jayne Hinds Bidaut. University of Texas Press/192pp./$60 (hb). The Art of Der Spiegel (Die Kunst des Spiegel), by Stefan Aust and Stefan Kiefer. teNeues/264pp./$35 (sb). The Art of Seeing, the Art of Listening, by Ursula...

The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003.(new from the mit press)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003 Gregg Bordowitz, edited by James Meyer foreword by Douglas Crimp "As a video artist, grassroots organizer, activist, intellectual, witness, and person with HIV, Gregg...

Modernism's Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction.(new from the mit press)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Modernism's Masculine Subjects Matisse, the New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction Marcia Brennan "With imagination, intelligence and intensity. Brennan situates postwar modernism within a compelling cultural...

The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life.(new from the mit press)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Interventionists Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life edited by Nato Thompson and Gregory Sholette Art that is exciting, politically provocative, unexpected, inspiring, and fun, by artists including...

Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture.(new from the mit press)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Over Here International Perspectives on Art and Culture edited by Gerardo Mosquera and Jean Fisher Artists and scholars living and working outside of mainstream cultural circuits address the cultural entanglements of the global and...

Is Oedipus Online? Siting Freud after Freud.(new from the mit press)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2005... Is Oedipus Online? Siting Freud after Freud Jerry Aline Flieger Explores psychoanalysis as a navigation device for the cultural maze of the twenty-first century.

Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere.(new from the mit press)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2005... now in paperback Robert Smithson Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere Ann Reynolds "A useful and thoroughly entertaining book."--Art in America

The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art.(zone books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Claude Glass Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art Arnaud Maillet, translated by Jeff Fort A study of a largely forgotten optical device and its relation to notions of opacity, transparency, and imagination.

Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts.(zone books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts Alois Riegl translated by Jacqueline E. Jung foreword by Benjamin Binstock One of the earliest and most original art historical "surveys" by a founder of the discipline and one of its most...

Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.(zone books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... now in paperback Solitary Sex A Cultural History of Masturbation Thomas W. Laqueur "Laqueur's courageous cultural history (and it took courage, even now, to write this book) makes it abundantly clear why... the celebration...

Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film.(zone books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Subtitles On the Foreignness of Film edited by Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour Taking subtitles as their point of departure, filmmakers, writers, and artists explore translation, foreignness, and otherness in film culture. ...

Prosthetic Gods.(zone books)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2005... Prosthetic Gods Hal Foster A sophisticated account of how ideals of the primitive and of the machine came to dominate modern art. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity.(zone books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... now in paperback Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity Alexander Alberro "A valuable contribution to the literature on conceptual art.... draws fascinating parallels between the art world and postindustrialist...

Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion.(zone books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... now in paperback Virtual Art From Illusion to Immersion Oliver Grau "Grau traces the lineage of virtual reality as far back as the frescoes of a villa in Pompeii. Many illustrations amplify the argument." --Scientific...

Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere.(zone books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... now in paperback Invention of Hysteria Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere Georges Didi-Huberman translated by Alisa Hartz "This poetic account of the relationship between photography and madness...

Notices.(Calendar)
January 1, 2005... Exhibitions ARIZONA Phoenix: Monorchild Gallery, PO Box 790. A War Like People. Feb. 3 through Mar. 24. (602) 288-3974/www.warlikepeople.com. Scottsdale: Scottsdale Musuem of Contemporary Art, 7380 East Second St. Svetlana and...