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Afterimage articles from March 1997
A bimonthly magazine devoted to media art and cultural criticism for the photography, film, video and visual book community. Publishes feature articles of investigative reporting or scholarly research, interviews, essays, reviews of media arts publication
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Afterimage archives from March 1997
From The Background to the Foreground: The Photo Backdrop and Cultural Expression. (photo exhibit)
March 1, 1997... "From the Background to the Foreground: The Photo Backdrop and Cultural Expression" is a traveling exhibition originating at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. The exhibition is made possible with generous support from Polaroid...
The colonial backdrop. (photography)
March 1, 1997... BACKCHAT
As sites for the production of various cultural imaginaries, colonial photographic backdrops testify to the struggle between photographic modernity and the various cultural environments into which it enters. These backdrops are a sort...
Frames of mind. (photographic backdrop)
March 1, 1997... Try me, you will be satisfied.
- painted on the backdrop wall of a photographer's studio in Sierra Leone
The photograph itself exists at one remove from reality, and the painted backdrop provides an additional step away from daily life. The...
Folk art fantasies: photographer's backdrops.
March 1, 1997... The history of the painted backdrop begins shortly after the invention of photography in the 1830s. When this new picture-making process caught on it spread throughout the world in an amazingly short period of time. Much of this early camera work...