Afterimage articles from March 2005

Afterimage archives from March 2005

Susan Sontag, 1933-2004.(news)(Obituary)
March 1, 2005... Susan Sontag died in New York City on December 28, 2004 from cancer, a disease she had been battling for years. Born in New York City on January 16, 1933, Sontag spent her childhood in Arizona and her adolescent years in Los Angeles. At age 15,...

Editorial.(news)(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... It is a pleasure and a privilege to return to Afterimage after various previous incarnations on the Editorial staff, including Assistant Editor beginning in early 1993, later Managing Editor and most recently my tenure as Editor from July 1998...

Notes from the field.(news)
March 1, 2005... Major Research Project on Media Art Conservation launched. Documentation and Conservation of Media Art Heritage: Research and Case Studies will aim to train and create a new generation of curators, art historians, archivists, restorers and...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2005... The January/February 2005 issue of Afterimage contained three errors. The name of Peter Wollheim, author of "The Red Badge of Authenticity," a review of Susan Sontag's 2003 book Regarding the Pain of Others, was spelled incorrectly. Also, the...

AIPAD 2005.(report)
March 1, 2005... As photographic fairs organized by or for photo dealers and their potential customers prosper around the United States and in Europe, the oldest of them all, the Photographic Show sponsored by the Association of International Photography Art...

Still photography?(essay)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... Death shadows, specters, the photograph, as it does the cinema. That this is the case for the photograph is now a common understanding. I will come back to it. As for the cinema, death is inscribed there from its very advent, including in the...

Big fish in a very small pond: interview with Joan Lyons.(feature)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... JOAN LYONS recently retired from 30 years of coordinating the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) Press, the influential publisher of artists' books she founded in the early 1970s. Under Lyons' direction, VSW Press published more than 400 books....

City pinhole.(portfolio)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... I've been using pinhole cameras for a number of years to photograph a variety of settings. This current group of images focuses on the urban context. My original intent was to focus only on the elements that are "native" to the urban context:...

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART WASHINGTON, DC OCTOBER 17, 2004-JANUARY 2, 2005 J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 1, 2005-APRIL 24, 2005 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK, NEW YORK MAY 24,...

Boris Mikhailov: A Retrospective.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... BORIS MIKHAILOV: A RETROSPECTIVE THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART BOSTON, MA SEPTEMBER 22, 2004-JANUARY 2, 2005 Living in the current post-Soviet era, the USSR--once prided by western intellectuals as a country that would be...

John Szarkowski: Photographs.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... JOHN SZARKOWSKI: PHOTOGRAPHS INTRODUCTION BY SANDRA S. PHILLIPS BOSTON: BULFINCH PRESS, 2004/156 PP./84 TRITONE REPRODUCTIONS/$60 (HB) John Szarkowski: Photographs has been a long-awaited event in the history of twentieth-century...

Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... VIDEO GREEN: LOS ANGELES ART AND THE TRIUMPH OF NOTHINGNESS BY CHRIS KRAUS NEW YORK: SEMIOTEXT(E), 2004. 160 PP./$14.95 (SB) S/m radically preempts romantic love because it is a practice of it. To see this fact as cold or cynical is...

Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption, by Chris Jordan. Self-published/18 pp./price unavailable (sb). [exhibition catalog] Jordan is both appalled and fascinated by the accumulated detritus of American mass consumption....

The Photobook: A History (Volume 1).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Photobook: A History (Volume 1), co-edited by Martin Parr and Gary Badger. Phaidon/320 pp./$75.00 (hb). This volume traces the history of photography as mapped by the photobook. The book features famous photobooks such as Robert Frank's The...

We Skate Hardcore: Photographs from Brooklyn's Southside.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... We Skate Hardcore: Photographs from Brooklyn's Southside, by Vincent Cianni. New York University Press/150 pp./$24.95 (hb). We Skate Hardcore, which was awarded the Best Overall Book Design by the Association of American University Presses (out...

Kiss in the Dark: Contemporary Japanese Photography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Kiss in the Dark: Contemporary Japanese Photography. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography/Tankosha Publishing/150 pp./44 euros (hb). Kiss in the Dark takes a look at where Japanese photography is heading, and the focus is surprisingly not...

Books received.
March 1, 2005... 88 Secrets to Photoshop for Photographers, Scott Bourne. Olympic Mountain School Press/112 pp./$16.95 (sb). Archive: Lisburn Road, the Material Culture of a Belfast Church, Ursula Burke and Daniel Jewesbury. Belfast Exposed Photography/132...

Notices.(Calendar)
March 1, 2005... Exhibitions ARIZONA Phoenix: Monorchild Gallery, 217 E. Roosevelt. A War Like People. Through March 24. (602) 288-3974/www.warlikepeople.com. Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Strangely Familiar:...