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Afterimage articles from May 1999
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Afterimage archives from May 1999
1999 SPE National Conference.(Society for Photographic Education)
May 1, 1999... Society for Photographic Education 36th Annual Conference Tucson, Arizona March 13-16, 1999
As has been duly reported in Afterimage over the past 26 years, the national conferences of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) are often...
Strength in numbers.(37th Ann Arbor Film Festival)
May 1, 1999... 37th Ann Arbor Film Festival Ann Arbor, Michigan March 16-21, 1999
For 37 years now, Ann Arbor has consistently and unabashedly advocated all that is 16mm and not of the mainstream. This year was no exception, although it may be time to...
Exquisite correspondence: a dialogue with Whitney Chadwick.(author and San Francisco State University art history professor)(Interview)
May 1, 1999... Whitney Chadwick is co-curator of the exhibition "Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation." She is also editor of the catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition, Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and...
Imaging postmemory/renegotiating history.
May 1, 1999... The nature of history, the practice of historicization and the processes of memory pose special problems for postmodern thought. While postmodern and poststructuralist thought have often been simply characterized as negating history, they can...
Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory.(Review)
May 1, 1999... by Marianne Hirsch Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997 304 pp./$49.95 (hb), $22.00 (sb)
The nature of history, the practice of historicization and the processes of memory pose special problems for postmodern thought. While...
Trespassing Through Shadows: Memory, Photography and the Holocaust.(Review)
May 1, 1999... by Andrea Liss Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998 152 pp./$22.00 (sb)
The nature of history, the practice of historicization and the processes of memory pose special problems for postmodern thought. While postmodern and...
Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory.(Review)
May 1, 1999... by Ernst van Alphen Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997 233 pp./$49.50 (hb)
The nature of history, the practice of historicization and the processes of memory pose special problems for postmodern thought. While postmodern and...
A polestar for photography.(contemporary photography, various artists, Columbia University's Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL)
May 1, 1999... The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, houses a vast collection of American photography created after 1959, the year of the U.S. publication of Robert Frank's The Americans, the arbitrary yet pertinent date set for...
Photography's Multiple Roles: Art, Document, Market, Science.(Review)
May 1, 1999... with essays by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Denise Miller, Eugenia Parry, Ed Paschke, F. David Peat, Naomi Rosenblum, Franz Schulze and Rod Slemmons; foreword by John Mulvany Museum of Contemporary Photography with D.A.P.: New York, 1998 272...
Sphere of action.(feminist film movement)
May 1, 1999... B. Ruby Rich's Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement is a necessary, passionate and beautifully written call to arms for the feminist film community to remember that ideas are not imbedded exclusively within our...
Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement.(Review)
May 1, 1999... by B. Ruby Rich Durham: Duke University Press, 1998 419 pp./$59.95 (hb), $18.95 (sb)
B. Ruby Rich's Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement is a necessary, passionate and beautifully written call to arms for the...
Case histories.(Sigmund Freud, Jewish Museum, New York, NY)
May 1, 1999... "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture" is a comfortable visual experience. Its curatorial strategy and layout are straightforward and follow a linear chronology. Yet the questions the exhibition raises about how we now view Freudian...
Freud: Conflict and Culture - Essays on His Life, Work, and Legacy.(Review)
May 1, 1999... edited by Michael S. Roth New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 274 pp./$26.00 (hb)
"Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture" is a comfortable visual experience. Its curatorial strategy and layout are straightforward and follow a linear chronology....
Pagers, pageants and powwows.(Native American photography, video and art, various artists, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC)
May 1, 1999... Edward Sheriff Curtis has garnered his share of retrospective disdain for his once-celebrated photographs of Native Americans. While the curators at The Light Factory acknowledged him as "a visionary artist and ethnographer" for choosing to...
Timeline.(contemporary art, various artists, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY)
May 1, 1999... In the exhibition "Ruins in Reverse: Time and Progress in Contemporary Art Parts I & II" individual and collective notions of time are played out in unique and challenging ways. The extensive two-part exhibition structure allowed CEPA and its...
Ruins in Reverse: Time and Progress in Contemporary Art.(Review)
May 1, 1999... edited by Grant Kester Buffalo, New York: CEPA Gallery, 1999 40 pp./$10.00 (sb)
In the exhibition "Ruins in Reverse: Time and Progress in Contemporary Art Parts I & II" individual and collective notions of time are played out in unique and...