Afterimage articles from January 2009

Afterimage archives from January 2009

City of light and lenses.(Paris Photo Fair)
January 1, 2009... Paris Photo 2008 Carousel Du Louvre Paris November 13-16, 2008 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, born in November 1787, would no doubt be warmed to learn that his former city fills with imagemakers and image lovers during the...

Pluralistic conversation.(Disruptions: The Political in Art Now)
January 1, 2009... Disruptions: The Political in Art Now Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago October 24-25, 2008 The Museum of Contemporary Art, the Open Practice Committee at the School of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, and Critical...

Cinema on the pulse.(London Film Festival )
January 1, 2009... The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival London October 15-30, 2008 The London Film Festival is an important event in the city's cultural calendar. For two weeks in October Londoners were treated to a diverse range of films and...

String theories: Annegret Soltau's transitional, fetishistic photocollages.
January 1, 2009... Throughout four decades of experimentation with photography, the German artist Annegret Soltau has defied the typical experience of a photograph--as an individual, pure, paper rectangle with an illusionistic window. Her early endeavors were...

Taking things apart: locative media, migratory archives, and micropublics.
January 1, 2009... Part of the new heterogeneous transnational media ecology, locative media expands upon legacies of Fluxus and participatory art that foregrounded the assemblage of transitory publics. (1) Locative media extends these practices to probe the...

Bodily traces in digital encounters: materializing virtualities for the political documentary.
January 1, 2009... With the emergence of digital technologies in visual culture, much concern has been expressed about its potential for manipulation at the expense of the conventional premise that art in some way represents reality. The digital turn elicits in...

Insider/outside: an interview with Lucia Nimcova.(Interview)
January 1, 2009... Multi-media artist Lucia Nimcova approaches a cultural document of interior life in her native Slovakia and bordering countries. Her sensitive and complex bodies of work portray people within a shifting cultural mix, particularly women in...

Second-long fictions.(Sarah Moon's work)
January 1, 2009... Sarah Moon 12345 Royal College Of Art London October 17-25, 2008 Michael Hoppen Gallery London October 16-November 22, 2008 Sarah Moon 12345 By Sarah Moon with additional texts by Dominique Edde, llona...

Present past.(Susan Meiselas's photographic works)
January 1, 2009... Susan Meiselas: In History International Center Of Photography New York City September 19, 2008-January 4, 2009 Susan Meiselas: In History By Caroline Brothers, et al. New York: Steidl/ICP, 2008 356 pp./$75.00...

Broad scope.(Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video )
January 1, 2009... Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video 1986/2008 Pitzer Art Galleries Pitzer College Claremont, California September 25-November 23, 2008 The premise of the show "Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video 1986/2008" is simple: pair...

Palpable visions.(Miyako Ishiuchi's photographs )
January 1, 2009... Miyako Ishiuchi: Photographs 1976-2005 Foam_fotografiemuseum Amsterdam September 19-November 16, 2008 Photographs can transcend the visual, triggering feelings so strong as to be palpable. This fact could not be more odd: most...

Jesus Christ superstar.
January 1, 2009... Brady Robinson: Scenes From Jesusland Heineman Myers Contemporary Art Bethesda, Maryland November 11-December 6, 2008 Despite the separation of church and state in the Constitution, religion and Christianity specifically...

Mutts, migrations, and new homes.(Nancy Anne Coyne's photograph collections)
January 1, 2009... Nancy Anne Coyne: Speaking Of Home IDS Center/Macy's Skyway Minneapolis August 4--November 15, 2008 This past Fall in particular was a time of transition. As of November 4, the United States has a new president elect who, to...

Realism matters.(Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary; The Politics of Documentary)(Book review)
January 1, 2009... Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary By Jonathan Kahana New York and Cichester, Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2007 436 pp./$27.50 (sb) The Politics of Documentary By Michael Chanan London:...

Sublime strategies.(Book review)
January 1, 2009... Delusive Spaces: Essays on Culture, Media and Technology By Eric Kluitenberg Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, 2008 391 pp./$32.50 (sb) Delusive Spaces: Essays on Culture, Media and Technology (2008) is the second book in the series...

Scrapbooks: An American History.(Book review)
January 1, 2009... SCRAPBOOKS: AN AMERICAN HISTORY BY JESSICA HELFAND, YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS/190 PP./$45.00 (HB) Some of the richest historical documentation has been found in the personal writings of both ordinary and extraordinary people. Through...

Posters for the People: Art of the WPA.(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2009... POSTERS FOR THE PEOPLE: ART OF THE WPA BY ENNIS CARTER, QUIRK PRESS/216 PP./$50.00 (HB) The Poster Division of the WPA's Federal Art Project was one of many cultural programs of the New Deal. From 1935-43 the division employed more...

Books.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2009... About Her (6x6 series #6). Columbia College Chicago/unpaginated/$9.95 (sb). About Him (6x6 series #7). Columbia College Chicago/unpaginated/$9.95 (sb). Australian Post-War Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors, by Deane Williams....

Exhibitions.(Calendar)
January 1, 2009... ARIZONA Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1030 N. Olive Rd. oh I'amour: Contemporary Photography from the Stephane Janssen Collection. Through March 8. www.creativephotography.org. Tucson: Etherton...

Events.(art exhibitions)(Calendar)
January 1, 2009... ARIZONA Events: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7374 E. 2nd St. Activities throughout the year, including classes and workshops, film screenings and lectures. www.smoca.org. CALIFORNIA Classes and Programs: Palm Springs Art...

Milk run.(Poem)
January 1, 2009... I was cruel to Jeremy He rode the truck delivering milk I lived at the top of a cul-de-sac I kissed him sometimes I would hear the horn sing out across the suburb the truck's engine coming closer Jeremy running...