Afterimage articles from July 2004

Afterimage archives from July 2004

In response to: "The Visual Artists' Rights Act of 1990", Afterimage 31.4, Jan./Feb. 2004, pp.4-8.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... IN RESPONSE to: "The Visual Artists' Rights Act of 1990", Afterimage 31.4, Jan./Feb. 2004, pp.4-8. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From Katherine Carver, author of 'The Visual Artists' Rights Act of 1990. Dear Editor: A.D....

A.D. Coleman's response.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... A.D. Coleman's response: Dear Bruno: Carver has considerably misrepresented my letter. I am entitled to correct that. Also, she's refused to respond to any of the particular points therein. That needs to be made clear. Specifically:...

From William L. Reynolds.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... From William L. Reynolds Jacob A. France Professor of Judicial Process, University of Maryland School of law. I reply to A.D. Coleman's letter concerning Katherine J. Carver's article on photography and VARA for two reasons. First,...

From William Crowe.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... From William Crowe Attorney at Law Art Law, Intellectual Property. I enjoyed Ms. Carter's article for the January/February issue. It was very finely researched; first class! Despite the desperate need of photographers to eat, we...

In response to: "On James Natchwey and VII", pp.4-5, and "War in Iraq: the Co-Ordinates of a Conflict", p.19, Afterimage 31.6, March/April 2004.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... IN RESPONSE to: "On James Natchwey and VII", pp.4-5, and "War in Iraq: the Co-Ordinates of a Conflict", p.19, Afterimage 31.6, March/April 2004. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From Gary Knight, VII: Dear Mr Chalifour and Ms Stanley:...

Editor's response to Mr. Knight.(Letters to the Editor)(Editorial)
July 1, 2004... Editor's response to Mr. Knight: Dear Mr Knight, We greatly appreciate your taking the time to give us feedback because it allow us to rectify any problems, errors, or misconceptions whenever they may occur. We greatly respect the work...

Editorial.(Editorial)
July 1, 2004... The last few weeks have given us many examples, past or present, of "virtual realities," realities that are supposed to exist in one's "heart and mind" but end up infirmed by facts and evidences. Myths, lies, and hyper-realities seem to be...

Christian Boltanski: representation and the performance of memory.(Feature)
July 1, 2004... Memory studies at the turn of the century are in a boom; struggles with the concept of memory increasingly occupy contemporary artists, writers, historians and theorists across fields as diverse as cognitive sciences, cultural studies and...

Craft matters.(Feature)(Column)
July 1, 2004... In recent decades, the subject of craft all but disappeared from criticism and theory on contemporary art. As a result, the dialogue between form and content lost its balance. If art is as much a question of form as content, shouldn't we, in...

Lawrence Brose.(Interview)(Interview)
July 1, 2004... CAGE: A FILMIC CIRCUS ON METAPHORS ON VISION An interview with Film Artist Lawrence Brose by Christine Sevilla, April 12, 2004. In his film and video portrait of composer John Cage, film artist Lawrence Brose and composer Douglas Cohen...

Image-trouble: Rethinking Theories & Practices: Technology, Representation, and the Disciplines.(Essay)
July 1, 2004... Especially in regard to images, "we've never been modern," as Bruno Latour would say (1). Despite the rational analysis of modern representation, particular images can occasionally strike a violent blow to our collective sense of order, belief,...

Portrait of a life, from inheritance: the elder relative series.(Portfolio)
July 1, 2004... The following tells the story of how this work came to be. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My Mother lived with her brother and her sister all of her life. For 32 years, they dwelt in the same 3-bedroom apartment, along with my grandparents and...

Between the lines.(Reviews)(Video Recording Review)
July 1, 2004... Yifat Kedar's video Between the Lines (2001) begins and ends with her subject, Amira Hass, video-recording two night scenes from her apartment window in Ramallah. Hass is an Israeli journalist who has worked for the newspaper Ha'aretz since...

New media at VSW.(Reviews)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2004... The Visual Studies Workshop Gallery (Rochester NY) simultaneously hosted the work of two prominent upstate NY artists: DeProfundis and CAGE: A Filmic Circus on Metaphors on Vision by Lawrence Brose, director of CEPA in Buffalo, NY, and Messages...

Digital culture.(Essay)(Digital Art (World of Art))(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... DIGITAL ART (World of Art) by CHRISTIANE PAUL Thames & Hudson 224pp./$14.95 (sb) DIGITAL CULTURE by CHARLIE GERE Reaktion Books 22pp./$25 (sb) Through the decade of the nineteen nineties, it was difficult to find a basic...

Pula film festival.(Reviews)
July 1, 2004... Holding a national and international film festival in a 3000-year-old arena in Pula, Croatia, and let culture replace war cannot but raise attention. The ancient coliseum, has seen many human victims, today this arena still witnesses sacrifices...

How Images Think.(Books Reviewed)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... HOW IMAGES THINK BY ROB BURNETT Cambridge. MIT PRESS, 2004. 253pp./$34.95 (hb) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Image," currently a highly overworked member of the American language, derives from the Latin "imago." According to the Oxford...

Rene Burri Photographs.(Books Reviewed)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... RENE BURRI PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICAHEL KOETZLE New York: Phaidon, 2004. 450pp./$95 (hb) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rene Burri, Photographs is a retrospective book of photographs covering a period of 50 years. This book was published earlier...

Books received.
July 1, 2004... Aby Warbug and the Image in Motion, by Philipe-Alain Michaud. Zone Books/402pp./$33 (hb). Adobe Photoshop CS, One-On-One, by Deke McClelland [book+CD]. Deke Press/O'Reily/466pp./$39.95 Architectures of Illusion: From Motion Pictures to...

Notices.(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, southwestNET:PHX/ LA. Through September 5. 7380 East Second Street. (480) 874-4665 / smoca@sccarts.org/www.smoca.org. Tuscon: Center for Creative Photography,...