Afterimage articles from July 2005

Afterimage archives from July 2005

World Press Photo 2005.(news)
July 1, 2005... The annual awards issued by the international jury of the World Press Photo organization are the most important in photojournalism, exceeding the Pulitzers and the Photo of the Year Awards. In addition, the Amsterdam-based organization also...

Deep Focus: a report on the future of independent media.(news)
July 1, 2005... On June 2nd at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) hosted a discussion panel and reception for the release of a far-reaching report on independent media entitled...

The London Photographic Awards'.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The London Photographic Awards' winners and finalists for the three most recent photographic competitions have been named. Winners can be viewed at www.london-photographic-awards.com.

Christopher Scoates has been appointed director of the University Art Museum at University of California (UC) Long Beach.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Christopher Scoates has been appointed director of the University Art Museum at University of California (UC) Long Beach. Formerly Chief Curator for the University Art Museum (UAM) at UC Santa Barbara, Scoates comes with 20 years of curatorial...

TASCHEN.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... TASCHEN, publisher of books ranging in topics from photography and film to pop culture and plastic surgery, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. More information can be found at www.taschen.com.

Soho Photo Gallery has announced the winners of its 10th annual National Photographic Competition.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Soho Photo Gallery has announced the winners of its 10th annual National Photographic Competition. The winners of first through third place respectively were Tom Yglesias of Novato, CA, Caitlin Atkinson of San Francisco, CA and Brigitte...

26th annual George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Art Libraries Society of North America awarded their 26th annual George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award. The winning titles were Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonne by Richard Shiff, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Heidemarie Colsman-Freyberger,...

Aperture Foundation and Distributed Art Publishers.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Two New York City institutions, Aperture Foundation and Distributed Art Publishers, have forged a new partnership, and Aperture has moved to a new location in Chelsea. More information can be found at www.aperture.org.

The Photographers' Gallery in London has appointed Mary Reynolds as Acting Director.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Photographers' Gallery in London has appointed Mary Reynolds as Acting Director while it continues to seek an individual to fill the full-time position. Information about the post of Director can be found on the gallery's website at...

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has appointed Peter Reed as Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has appointed Peter Reed as Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. Previously Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design, Reed will permanently serve as liaison between the...

The Stanford University libraries have acquired the archive of Lynn Hershman.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Stanford University libraries have acquired the archive of Lynn Hershman, the San Francisco-based avant-garde artist and filmmaker best known for pioneering the use of interactive computer and video technology to explore consumerism,...

The Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2005 has been awarded to Luc Delahaye.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2005 has been awarded to Luc Delahaye. Delahaye, a French artist best known for his large panoramic photographs, received the [pounds sterling]30,000 prize. In addition to the grand prize, three short-listed...

The Dia Art Foundation.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Dia Art Foundation, founded in New York City in 1974, plans to move from its current space in Chelsea to a new site in the meatpacking district. The estimated $55 million dollar plan, still awaiting public approval, would involve the...

The 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography have been awarded to three Central New York residents, Luke Buffenmyer and Doug Dubois of Syracuse and Steven Skopik of Ithaca. The Light Work Grant is a fellowship including a $1000 cash reward,...

Buffalo artist Steve Kurtz.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... In a hearing for Buffalo artist Steve Kurtz, charged last summer with mail and wire fraud after the discovery of harmless bacteria in his home, prosecutors argued that the breach of civil contract involved in the acquirement of the bacteria by...

The Photography Institute.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Closing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Photography Institute will be closing its doors in June, with funding issues being cited as the underlying difficulty. Founded in 1991 and hosted within The School of the Arts at Columbia University, the Photographic Institute's National...

Columbia University's National Arts Journalism Program.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Columbia University's National Arts Journalism Program (NAJP), founded in 1994 to create better quality coverage of arts in the press, will close due to lack of funding. NAJP played a critical role in art journalism by awarding fellowships to...

Kodak has announced plans to discontinue the production of black and white photographic paper.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Kodak has announced plans to discontinue the production of black and white photographic paper. However, it will continue to produce black and white film and processing chemicals. In an additional move following a trend away from chemical-based...

Filmmaker Omer Kavur died at age 61.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
July 1, 2005... Filmmaker Omer Kavur died at age 61. The acclaimed Turkish director of the films Motherland Hotel (1986) and Karsilasma (Encounter, 2003) lost his battle with lymph node cancer on May 12, 2005 in Paris.

Archaeological digging in the June gloom.(report)(Robert Flaherty seminar (California); documentary movies)
July 1, 2005... THE 51ST ROBERT FLAHERTY SEMINAR CLAREMONT COLLEGES, CLAREMONT, CA JUNE 11-18, 2005 Arriving at the Claremont Colleges east of Los Angeles for this year's Robert Flaherty Seminar, many out-of-state participants, like myself, were...

The impermanence of memory.(report)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... THIRD HAMBURG PHOTOGRAPHY TRIENNIAL HAMBURG, GERMANY APRIL 14-JUNE 19, 2005 When is a photography festival a photography festival? It depends, as [former United States President] Bill Clinton put it so eloquently, on what the...

Venice and the moving image.(report)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... BIENNALE VENICE 2005: 51ST INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION VENICE, ITALY JUNE 12-NOVEMBER 6, 2005 The 51st Venice Biennale includes two international exhibitions, "The Experience of Art," curated by Maria de Corral at the Italian...

Artists' books as catalyst.(report)
July 1, 2005... ARTISTS' BOOKS CONFERENCE WELLESLEY COLLEGE, WELLESLEY, MA JUNE 15-18, 2005 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From June 15-18, 2005, Wellesley College hosted the Artists' Books Conference (ABC), bringing together librarians, artists,...

CEPA Gallery at 30.(portrait)(Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (anniversary))
July 1, 2005... Buffalo, New York's internationally renowned CEPA Gallery (Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts) is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary with the show "CEPA Gallery at Thirty," which features work from the gallery's 11 past and...

En Foco celebrates 30th year.(portrait)
July 1, 2005... After 30 years of existence En Foco is still rooted in discussion, mentorship, collaboration and artistic exposure of and for "minorities." Today En Foco's programs include an annual New Works Photography award given to up-and-coming...

Life on the road: Art Sinsabaugh's Midwest Landscapes.(feature)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... If Edward Hopper had been a photographer, he might have been Art Sinsabaugh. Both are poets of the ordinary, of the inhabited but often unpeopled landscape, sociologists of the visual with a magical realist touch. And both take as opportunities...

100 SUNS and the nuclear sublime: an interview with Michael Light.(feature)(Photographer)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... MICHAEL Light is a San Francisco-based photographer and bookmaker whose work deals with the politics of the environment and America's cultural relationship to it. Light has exhibited internationally, and his work is in the collections of the...

Drawn to Water.(portfolio)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 1, 2005... I have photographed a women's swimming group on Staten Island, New York, since 1984. They have been swimming together for over 40 years, and swim in a dimly lit, extremely humid YMCA pool. Alice Robinson, the founder of the group, just turned...

'An Outpost of Strength': the Los Angeles Times performs law and order versus chaos during the Watts Rebellion of 1965.(feature)
July 1, 2005... ON August 12, 1965 the Los Angeles Times ran a brief news item about a riot sparked by the arrest of Marquette Frye, an African American man stopped for speeding. (1) Pulled over by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in his...

Narrative remixed.(Doug Aitken: Interiors)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... DOUG AITKEN: INTERIORS HENRY GALLERY SEATTLE, WA MARCH 26-JULY 10, 2005 Doug Aitken, one of today's most well-known innovators in the arena of sound and video art, emerged on the scene in 1993 with a solo exhibition at the AC...

Waiting in silence.(Bart Michiels: The Course of History)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... BART MICHIELS: THE COURSE OF HISTORY FOLEY GALLERY NEW YORK, NY FEBRUARY 10-APRIL 2, 2005 In the Cherry Tree's Branches a crunching of iron shoes. Summer foams up for you out of helmets. The blackish cuckoo with diamond...

"Anthony, come to dinner".(Anthony Burdin)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... ANTHONY BURDIN CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS SAN FRANCISCO, CA APRIL 7-MAY 14, 2005 Anthony Burdin's latest exhibition, at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, was not a show of...

The wall of Palestine.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... LARRY TOWELL: NO MAN'S LAND STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY TORONTO, ONTARIO MAY 14-JUNE 25, 2005 HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON FOUNDATION PARIS, FRANCE APRIL 15-AUGUST 4, 2005 NO MAN'S LAND LONDON: CHRIS BOOT LTD. (English...

Who wears the pants?(Garth Amundson: Home Ec)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2005... GARTH AMUNDSON: HOME EC. SHIFT COLLABORATIVE STUDIO SEATTLE, WA APRIL 7-30, 2005 It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe--though we...

A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... A LINE OF SIGHT: AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE FILM SINCE 1965 by Paul Arthur. University of Minnesota Press/216 pp./$59.95 (hb), $19.95 (sb). Rather than chart a direct route through post-WWII experimental film practice, Arthur opts for an...

Better Things.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... BETTER THINGS by Douglas Holleley. Clarellen Press/120 pp./$19.95 (sb). In his most recent exhibition and accompanying book, Better Things, Holleley reconsiders the art collection of the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. The...

Bettina Rheims: Female Trouble.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... BETTINA RHEIMS: FEMALE TROUBLE by Bettina Rheims. Schirmer/Mosel/152 pp./$34.95 (hb). Paris-born photographer Bettina Rheims is well known for her perspective on sexuality and fantasy. Her book Female Trouble features an introduction...

David Hilliard: Photographs.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... DAVID HILLIARD: PHOTOGRAPHS Photographs by David Hilliard, with an essay by Charlotte Cotton and an interview with Vince Aletti. Aperture/96 pp./50 four color images/$50.00/[pounds sterling]27.50 (hb). In Hilliard's self-titled debut...

Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... DICTIONARY DAYS: A DEFINING PASSION by Ilan Stavans. Graywolf Press/152 pp./$17.00 (hb). The Oxford English Dictionary is Stavans' Bible: he consumes words as others might indulge in dessert. In Dictionary Days, Stavans, an...

Having Been Said: Writings and Interviews of Lawrence Weiner 1968-2003.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... HAVING BEEN SAID: WRITINGS AND INTERVIEWS OF LAWRENCE WEINER 1968-2003 edited by Gerti Fietzek and Gregor Stemmrich. Hatje Cantz Publishers/484 pp./$60.00 (sb). Lawrence Weiner's earlier text-based art has occassionally been compared...

The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ViSUAL CULTURE READER edited by Jeannene M. Przyblyski and Vanessa R. Schwartz. Routledge/405 pp./$34.95 (sb). Editors Schwartz and Przyblyski have assembled an indispensable collection of essays that, in looking...

TV Wonderland: The Enchantment of Early Television.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... TV WONDERLAND: THE ENCHANTMENT OF EARLY TELEVISION by Brad and Debra Schepp. Collector's Press/176 pp./$14.95 (sb). TV Wonderland: The Enchantment of Early Television is an engaging introduction to the pop culture phenomenon of TV...

Media received.
July 1, 2005... American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece, by Thomas Hoving. Chamberlain Bros./165 pp./$13.95 (sb). Anton Corbijn: Famouz, Photographs 1975.88, by Anton Corbijn. Schirmer/Mosel/116 pp./$69.95 (hb). Art Works:...

Notices.(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Water, Water Everywhere... Through Sept. 4. SouthwestNET Animation: Flat Black Films and Stacey Steers. Through Aug. 21. Looking at the World:...