Afterimage articles from July 1997

Afterimage archives from July 1997

Community darkrooms. (Community Darkroom in Rochester upgrades facilities)
July 1, 1997... Rochester's Community Darkroom, a nonprofit public-access organization offering classes, workshops and exhibition opportunities in black and white photography, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year and has much to celebrate....

Pictures in transition: 15th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. (film reviews of Asian American films)
July 1, 1997... This year's San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival was a picture of transitions, with programming reflecting some of the recent trends in independent Asian American media production. The festival also pointed out an identity...

The photography scene in Columbus. (rationale behind the booming arts scene in Columbus, OH)
July 1, 1997... Looking back at the great deal of quality work that has been presented throughout the 1996-97 exhibition season, it seems that Columbus, Ohio is keeping pace with the national exhibition record of photography. But is Columbus's photography surge...

Independent film and video in Boston.
July 1, 1997... Boston has long had a reputation as a center for documentary work and deservedly so. Avant-garde documentarian Errol Morris, whose latest film Fast, Cheap and Out of Control was screened at The Sundance Film Festival in 1997, shaves a zipcode...

Centers and peripheries in contemporary Italian photography.
July 1, 1997... Looking at Italy today, one will see a multiplicity of regions, accents and traditions -- not necessarily the mythic birthplace of Western civilization, Italy's fragmentation mirrors the complexity of the European project of community because it...

Assessing the M.F.A. in photography. (evaluation of the Master of Fine Arts programs as ranked in US News and World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools)
July 1, 1997... Since 1983, U.S. News & World Report has published an annual special issue and standalone publication called America's Best Colleges that gives a numerical ranking to 1422 accredited four-year schools. This increasingly popular and profitable...

In search of the telephone opera: from communications to art. (critiquing the world wide web as an art form)
July 1, 1997... I. The World Wide Web As Communication Art Listen to me now or listen to me later... Gonna get it together, watch it. Gonna get together, Ma Bell. Like Ma Bell, I got the ill communication! -- The Beastie Boys[1] It is in the process of...

Visceral photography: the work of Adam Fuss.
July 1, 1997... The 1890s marked a revolutionary moment in science and technology that seemed to overwhelm Western culture and society. Not dissimilar to our own fractured era 100 years later, industrialization, brutal materialism and technological displacement...

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings.
July 1, 1997... The four books under consideration here mark the centenary year of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946). They differ profoundly from one another, as might be expected, given their varied institutional, disciplinary and theoretical framings. But at a...

Picturing Modernism: Moholy-Nagy and Photography in Weimar Germany.
July 1, 1997... The four books under consideration here mark the centenary year of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946). They differ profoundly from one another, as might be expected, given their varied institutional, disciplinary and theoretical framings. But at a...

In Focus: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
July 1, 1997... The four books under consideration here mark the centenary year of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946). They differ profoundly from one another, as might be expected, given their varied institutional, disciplinary and theoretical framings. But at a...

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Fotogramme 1922-1943.
July 1, 1997... The four books under consideration here mark the centenary year of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946). They differ profoundly from one another, as might be expected, given their varied institutional, disciplinary and theoretical framings. But at a...

Public intimacy: the development of first-person documentary.
July 1, 1997... Using the camcorder she got from MTV for its "Unfiltered" segment, a determined young woman chronicles the student movement she marshaled to stop harassment of women on a college campus. On public TV, a brain-damaged man charts his experience of...

The Century of Artists' Books.
July 1, 1997... In "Metaphor and Form," the last chapter of The Century of Artists' Books, Johanna Drucker recalls a scene in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847). The narrator, Mr. Lockwood, has discovered a jumble of books once belonging to Heathcliff's...

A New Life: Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South.
July 1, 1997... I used to drive from my house in a small town to the suburb where I now live to use a laundromat that I liked because it made me feel that I'd stepped into a short story by Raymond Carver, although this was in upstate New York, not Carver's...