Afterimage articles from July 2007

Afterimage archives from July 2007

Cinematic snapshot.(San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival)
July 1, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL SAN FRANCISCO, BERKELEY, AND SAN JOSE MARCH 15-25, 2007 Originating in 1982, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) is one of the oldest and...

Notions of ecology.(Sharjah Biennial; Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change)
July 1, 2007... SHARJAH BIENNIAL 8 SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES APRIL 4-JUNE 4, 2007 The oil in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has fueled rapid growth for its country. Theme malls, hotels, apartments, and businesses are being built at such a...

A Baltic round up.(4th Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art; Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia)
July 1, 2007... 4TH ARS BALTICA TRIENNIAL FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ART STADTGALERIE KIEL, GERMANY MARCH 31-MAY 28, 2007 CROSSKICK: RIGA REVIEW NEUE GESELLSCHAFT FUR BILDENDE KUNST BERLIN MARCH 10-APRIL 22, 2007 ARTHUR KLINAU: ALICE...

RE-Rereading Camera Lucida: viewing Barthes through Victor Burgin.
July 1, 2007... ... those who fail to re-read are obliged to read the same story everywhere. Roland Barthes, S/Z Artist and critic Victor Burgin uses the above quotation to open his essay "Rereading Camera Lucida," a critical examination of Roland...

Photographs: whence veracity?(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... Photographs are imbued with a certain level of veracity as recordings of the external world. This accuracy is perceived as being at a higher level for photographs than for other two-dimensional representations of the world such as drawings and...

24/7, 16.8: is 24 a political show?(television drama)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... When writing about culture, one must necessarily contend with the problem of meaning. What can be said coherently about any given cultural artifact? Is the artifact always forthright about expressing what it means? Or is the artifact dealing in...

The abused landscape: the works of young Israeli photographers.(Essay)
July 1, 2007... For centuries the people of Israel were deprived of a land of their own. Therefore the main goal of Zionism, awakening in the late nineteenth century, was to resettle these people in their ancient biblical land. In the Zionist vocabulary, the...

Photography's intertextuality.(Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar exhibit)
July 1, 2007... TARYN SIMON: AN AMERICAN INDEX OF THE HIDDEN AND UNFAMILIAR WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART NEW YORK CITY MARCH 9-JUNE 24, 2007 Although the indexical power of photography has been greatly undermined by the current widespread...

Questioning reality.(Lorna Simpson's exhibit)
July 1, 2007... LORNA SIMPSON WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART NEW YORK CITY MARCH 1-MAY 6, 2007 Nearly twenty years after the civil rights movement pierced Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, African American photographer Lorna Simpson began...

Toys. Beer. Flags.(American Brain by Robert Raczka)
July 1, 2007... ROBERT RACZKA: AMERICAN BRAIN PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS PITTSBURGH FEBRUARY 2-MARCH 18, 2007 In the 1950s and 1960s the grandeur and power of mass media and marketing was palpable: the frenzied optimism over the...

The future of the dag.(Daguerreotypes Past and Present)
July 1, 2007... DAGUERREOTYPES PAST AND PRESENT DAGUERREIAN SOCIETY GALLERY PITTSBURGH APRIL 21-MAY 5, 2007 In an unassuming building a few minutes drive from downtown Pittsburgh was an exhibition of unexpected depth and magnitude. As the...

Photojournalism in flux?(Fig exhibit by Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg)
July 1, 2007... OLIVER CHANARIN AND ADAM BROOMBERG: FIG. JOHN HANSARD GALLERY UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND FEBRUARY 6-MARCH 31, 2007 In the first half of the twentieth century, photography became an integral element of newspapers and...

All about Eve's epic women.(The Rape of the Sabine Women by Eve Sussman)(Movie review)
July 1, 2007... THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN BY EVE SUSSMAN AND THE RUFUS CORPORATION 80 MINUTES, 2006 With a title like The Rape of the Sabine Women, the viewer anticipates a nasty ending. In the case of Eve Sussman's recent filmic effort, a...

After televisions in trees.(Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology As a Field of Study)(Perspectives on Culture, Technology and Communication: The Media Ecology Tradition)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... ECHOES AND REFLECTIONS: ON MEDIA ECOLOGY AS A FIELD OF STUDY BY LANCE STRATE CRESSKILL, NJ: HAMPTON PRESS, 2006 192 PP./$23.95 (SB) PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION: THE MEDIA ECOLOGY TRADITION EDITED...

The god of time.(Boltanski Time)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... BOLTANSKI TIME EDITED BY RALF BEIL OSTFILDERN, GERMANY: HATJE CANTZ VERLAG, 2006 156 PP./$55.00 (HB) In a site-specific installation at the Mathildenhohe in Darmstadt, Germany, Christian Boltanski combined new and old works to...

Unknown trajectories.(City Shields Vol US 5: No. 1 Ohio)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... CITY SHIELDS VOL US5: NO 1 OHIO (TUSCARAWAS COUNTY: NEW PHILADELPHIA, NEWCOMERSTOWN, GNADENHUTTEN, URICHSVILLE) BY LOUISE LEVERGNEUX OTTAWA, CANADA: SELF-PUBLISHED, 2006 21 PP./$30.00 (HB) Since 1999 Louise Levergneux has been...

Media noted and received.
July 1, 2007... Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie, by Eric Lichtenfeld. Wesleyan University Press/383 pp./$24.95 (sb). The Alchemy of Comedy... Stupid, by Edgar Arceneaux. University of Chicago Press/96 pp./$20.00...

Notices.(Directory)
July 1, 2007... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Contemporary Scandinavian Art. Space is the Place. Both through Sept. 2. www.smoca.org. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of...