Afterimage articles from March 2003

Afterimage archives from March 2003

Peter Eric Palmquest, 1936-2003. (News).
March 1, 2003... I suspect many tears were shed on keyboards everywhere as people read their email about Peter Eric Palmquist's death on January 13, 2003. Peter died of severe head injuries after being struck in a crosswalk by a speeding, hit--and--run driver...

Herb Ritts, 1952-2002. (News).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... On December 26, 2002, renowned American photographer Herb Ritts passed away after the sudden onset of pneumonia complicated by HIV. Ritts was born in 1952 in Brentwood, California, and after studying art history and economics at Bard College,...

George Roy Hill, 1921-2002. (News).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... George Roy Hill died Friday, December 27, 2002 at his home in Manhattan due to complications from Parkinson's disease. Hill is best known for his-films Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973), the latter of which won...

Oliver Galiani, 1917-2002. (News).
March 1, 2003... Oliver Galiani died on November 20, 2002, in Burligame, California at the age of 85. A master craftsman and a photographer's photographer, Gagliani had been photographing for over 50 years and had a strong attraction to the ghost towns of...

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 1, 2003... I met Nathan Lyons 15 years ago. He and Stuart Alexander were teaching a workshop on a critical approach to photography at the Rencontres Internationales d'Arles in the south of France. As a photographer, but also as someone who had been...

News from AIPAD 2003. (Report).(Association of International Photography Art Dealers)
March 1, 2003... The Association of International Photography Art Dealers held its 2003 show on February 7-9 at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. Beside the show itself that comprised the booths of 80 galleries on two floors, the public could attend a panel...

Mapplethorpe and the new obscenity. (Essay).(Robert Mapplethorpe)
March 1, 2003... Robert Mapplethorpe is now widely known as one of a pair of artists, along with Andres Serrano, who catapulted the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) into the crisis that is widely referred to as the "culture wars of the arts." (1) As a...

Brecht's War Primer: the "photo-epigram" as poor monument.(Bertolt Brecht)
March 1, 2003... Kriegsfibel (literally, War Primer) is a collection of what Bertolt Brecht called "photo-epigrams"--four line verses captioning photographs clipped from newspapers and magazines. They were mainly composed during World War II, while Brecht was...

Modern sublime: the world of Josef Koudelka at the Rencontres d'Arles.
March 1, 2003... "I would like to see everything, to look at everything." (1) These are Josef Koudelka's words quoted by Robert Delpire, his friend, editor and curator. "My photographs, you know them. You have published them, you have exhibited them, then you...

Edouard Boubat for Press Freedom. (Books Reviewed).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edouard Boubat for Press Freedom. Paris: Reporters sans frontieres/Reporters without Frontiers. 128 p. $6 "Don't wait to be deprived of news to stand up and fight for it." Reporters Sans Fontieres, (Reporters Without Borders) was...

Black City Cinema.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Black City Cinema by Paula J. Massod. Temple University PressI268 pp.I$19.95 (sb). Much has been said about the representation of black subjects in Hollywood cinema. Starting with the crude caricatures of African Americans in early silent...

City Spaces.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... City Spaces. Photographs of Chicago Alleys by Bob Thall. The Center for American Places, 2002/96 p./$40.00 (hb). This is the third book that Bob Thall has dedicated to the changing architecture of Chicago. After The Perfect city in 1994,...

Books received.(Bibliography)
March 1, 2003... Aesthetics Across the Color Line: Why Nietzsche (Sometimes) Can't Sing the Blues, by Jamesi. Win chester. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, InC./145 pp./$19.95 (sb). Michael Snow, almost Cover to Cover, by Michael Snow. Black Dog Publishing...

Still motion. (Reviews).(visual arts)
March 1, 2003... Hosfelt Gallery San Francisco, California January 25-March 1, 2003 While motion detection, surveillance, GPS technologies, network structures and other such spatial devices and categories have dominated much of the criticism of...

Half Past Autumn. (Reviews).(Photography)
March 1, 2003... Half Past Autumn The Photography of Gordon Parks. George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. February 1 - April 6, 2003. How can anyone summarize any artist's life in 199 photographs? Such a goal sounds all the more difficult...

Girl Culture. (Reviews).
March 1, 2003... Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, October 5 - December 8, 2002; Pace MacGill, New York City, October 25 - December 7, 2002; Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles. December 5 - February 8, 2003. Lauren Greenfield's Girl...

Andre Breton's 42 rue Fontaine Art Collection goes to Auction. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Andre Breton's 42 rue Fontaine Art Collection Goes to Auction April 1-18. The estate of Surrealist guru Andre Breton will be auctioned by CalmelsCohen at the Hotel Drouot-Richelieu in Paris. The Collection Catalogue contains over 5,300 pieces...

The National Endowment for the Arts Confirms Dana Gioia as Chairman. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The National Endowment for the Arts Confirms Dana Gioia as Chairman. The ninth Chairman of the NEA was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 29. Gioia is best known as a poet, critic, educator and former Vice President of Marketing for...

The New Museum of Contemporary Art has Launched its Newly Designed and Expanded Web Site. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The New Museum of Contemporary Art has Launched its Newly Designed and Expanded Web Site. The new web site features a search function that accesses 25 years of exhibition history, an archive of public programs and educator tools that include...

The Recipients of the 2002 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Announced. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The Recipients of the 2002 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Announced. The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot by Larry J. Schaaf (Princeton University Press) has won the best book award in the Art, Culture and History category and The...

Amon Carter Museum Launches Online Collection Gullies for Works by Eliot Porter and Erwin Smith. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Amon Carter Museum Launches Online Collection Gullies for Works by Eliot Porter and Erwin Smith. The Carter Museum will launch multilayered web sites dedicated to two important photographers in U.S. history. Porter, who is best known for his...

The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, FACT, Opens New Center in Liverpool, UK. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, FACT, Opens New Center in Liverpool, UK. FACT opened the first purpose-built, arts project building in the city of Liverpool in over 60 years, on February 22. The new facility contains two...

Larry Schwarm Receives the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman Foundation First Book Prize in Photography. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Larry Schwarm Receives the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman Foundation First Book Prize In Photography. Schwarm will receive a grant of $3,000, publication of a book of photography and will be included in a traveling exhibition. In his...

Fire is an essential part of the prairie ecosystem. (Notes from the Field).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Fire is an essential part of the prairie ecosystem." Schwarm's work was selected from almost 500 entries. Honorable mention was awarded to freelance photographer Anna Kuperberg. The next First Book Prize in Photography competition will be held...

Photographic Resource Center Moves into New Home. (Notes From the Field).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Photographic Resource Center Moves Into New Home. The Photographic Resource Center (PRC) has moved to a street-level storefront located at 832 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, after being situated in four previous "underground" locations since its...

Bank, the Newest Art Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles, Opens. .(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Bank, the Newest Art Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles; Opens. Located at 400 S. Main St., on the ground floor of a 1907 bank, Los Angeles newest contemporary art gallery focuses on design, photography, digital art and video and its "commitment...

Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit to be Held May 24-26 and May 31-June 1. (Notes From the Field).
March 1, 2003... Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit to be Held May 24-26 and May 31-June 1. In its 73rd year of operation, the open-air presentation of established and new art pioneers will cover 20 blocks bordering Washington Square Park in New York City....

Exhibitions.(photography)
March 1, 2003... ARIZONA Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. The Drama of Pictures: Aaron Siskind's Photography. March 8-July 6. Tempe: Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University. Crossing Borders/Group Show. Through March...

Events.(photography courses)
March 1, 2003... ARIZONA Workshop: Edition Book Production, a two-day workshop led by Pat Baldwin of Pequeno Press, is available for groups of six or more. For information call (520) 432-5924 or email patbooks@primenet.com. CALIFORNIA Courses: UC...

Light Index.
March 1, 2003... Light Index is an exhibition that features work by three artists that examine the most essential component of the photographic process: light. This essential element, together with the concept of index, serves as a conceptual point of departure...