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Afterimage articles from March 1998
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Afterimage archives from March 1998
Christine Tamblyn, 1951-1998. (artist and art critic)(Obituary)
March 1, 1998... Artist and critic Christine Tamblyn died of breast cancer at the age of 46 on New Year's Day at her home in San Francisco. Committed to feminist politics and interdisciplinary experimentation, Christine achieved an international reputation for...
Making strange. (Ostranenie '97 Electronic Media Forum)
March 1, 1998... In the spirit of the Bauhaus, Ostranenie '97 was a provocative inquiry into the state of the electronic arts in Central and Eastern Europe. Two hundred artists gathered in Dessau last November to view and discuss artwork that critically examines...
Screening the digital. (Digital Film Festival, New York, New York)
March 1, 1998... Last September I attended the inaugural D.FILM/Digital Film Festival in New York City, an event held at The Kitchen on two separate nights. in November, the festival moved on to other locations, including San Francisco and San Diego; and in the...
On Doubletake. (art magazine)
March 1, 1998... In 1936, when James Agee talked the editors of Fortune magazine into sending him south with photographer Walker Evans to report on the living conditions of sharecropper farmers - the collaboration that, five years and two publishers later, became...
Sontag's reception. (essayist Susan Sontag)(Sontag's On Photography at 20)
March 1, 1998... The initial critical reception of Susan Sontag's On Photography (1977) is one of the most extraordinary events in the history of photography and cultural criticism. No other photography book, not even The Family of Man (1955), which sold four...
On Photography.(Sontag's on Photography at 20)
March 1, 1998... Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth. But being educated by photographs is not like being educated by older, more artisanal images. For one thing, there are a great many...
Regarding Sontag, again. (essayist Susan Sontag)(Sontag's On Photography at 20)
March 1, 1998... Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth. But being educated by photographs is not like being educated by older, more artisanal images. For one thing, there are a great many...
On Photography.(Sontag's On Photography at 20)
March 1, 1998... The initial critical reception of Susan Sontag's On Photography (1977) is one of the most extraordinary events in the history of photography and cultural criticism. No other photography book, not even The Family of Man (1955), which sold four...
Always already: affinities between art and film. (various artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California)
March 1, 1998... The exhibition "Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors" claims to illustrate a moment of cultural progress beyond modernism toward a more enlightened era. The most telling essay, however, in the exhibition catalog - a catalog that does include...
Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors.
March 1, 1998... The exhibition "Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors" claims to illustrate a moment of cultural progress beyond modernism toward a more enlightened era. The most telling essay, however, in the exhibition catalog - a catalog that does include...
True crime: forensic aesthetics on display. (various artists, various galleries, California)
March 1, 1998... Two prominent Californian art institutions recently organized major exhibitions and catalogs devoted to the subject of crime and its history in representational media. In hosting projects of this nature, both art institutions have, inadvertently...
Scene of the Crime.
March 1, 1998... Two prominent Californian art institutions recently organized major exhibitions and catalogs devoted to the subject of crime and its history in representational media. In hosting projects of this nature, both art institutions have, inadvertently...
Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence.
March 1, 1998... Two prominent Californian art institutions recently organized major exhibitions and catalogs devoted to the subject of crime and its history in representational media. In hosting projects of this nature, both art institutions have, inadvertently...
Rauschenberg's photographies. (Robert Rauschenberg, Guggemheim Museums, New York, New York)
March 1, 1998... The first work by Robert Rauschenberg to enter a public collection was a pair of black and white photographs purchased by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art's photography department. In light of the noisy Pop assemblage for which he is...
Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective.
March 1, 1998... The first work by Robert Rauschenberg to enter a public collection was a pair of black and white photographs purchased by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art's photography department. In light of the noisy Pop assemblage for which he is...
The Cinematic City.
March 1, 1998... The construction team currently restoring the 1922 Egyptian Theater, the American Cinematheque's future home on Hollywood Boulevard, is engaged in a peculiar form of archeological excavation. Bound by federal laws dictating what renovations are...
The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory.
March 1, 1998... The construction team currently restoring the 1922 Egyptian Theater, the American Cinematheque's future home on Hollywood Boulevard, is engaged in a peculiar form of archeological excavation. Bound by federal laws dictating what renovations are...
Trace and Transformation: American Criticism of Photography in the Modernist Period.
March 1, 1998... Like Romeo and Juliet, modernism and photography just can't seem to live without one another. Due in part to the close proximity of their beginnings in the nineteenth century, photography's aspirations to legitimacy as an art form have been so...
Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies.
March 1, 1998... In her effort to bring the feminist photographer and critic together in one inclusive volume, Reframings's editor, Diane Neumaier, discovered that feminist critics seem more interested in analyzing dominant culture than feminist artwork. Neumaier...