Afterimage articles from May 2002

Afterimage archives from May 2002

Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation. (Newswire).(photography award)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation has selected Canadian photographer Jeff Wall to receive the Hasselblad Foundation's International Award in Photography for 2002. The prize consists of SEK 500,000 and a gold medal, which will be awarded...

Festivities.(FotoFest, Houston, Texas)
May 1, 2002... FotoFest 2002 Ninth Biennial Month of Photography Houston, Texas March 1 - April 1 In Houston, the month of March was filled with conversation amongst Its locals regarding the collapse of Enron, increasing levels of humidity...

Learning from Las Vegas.(Society for Photographic Education)
May 1, 2002... * Fact or Fiction: Photography and Mediated Experience * Society for Photographic Education National Conference * Las Vegas, Nevada * March 21-24 An annual gathering, the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) National...

Proem.(Brief Article)(Poem)
May 1, 2002... Proem I want a new kind of history. I want a history that looks at photography, not just at art photographs, a history that can speak to the complexity of the everyday (a history that is true to life). I want a history that...

Cinders of life.(death and photography)
May 1, 2002... I. When I was still very young, my father used to write the names of deceased relatives on long narrow pieces of rice paper for the annual memorial ceremonies With due care, often referring to the book that contained many examples of...

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. (Newswire).(fellowships)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the results of its 78th annual United States and Canadian Fellowship competition. The 2002 Fellowship winners include 184 artists, scholars and scientists, selected from over 2800...

Bucksbaum Award. (Newswire).(Irit Batsry)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Whitney Museum of American Art announced that the Bucksbaum Award, given to an artist included in the Whitney Biennial, was awarded to video installation artist Irit Batsry. The Award 02 includes a grant of $100,000 a two-year residency at...

National Endowment for the Arts. (Newswire).(awards)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the recipients of its second round of grants for the fiscal year 2002. A total of $60.7 million will be divided among 788 grant-recipients in six categories. The "Access" category, with 234...

Walter Phillips Gallery. (Newswire).(Anthony Kiendl, director)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Walter Phillips Gallery, located at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada, has announced the appointment of Anthony Kiendl as its new Director. Kiendl, an artist and writer, comes to the Banff Center from the Dunlop Gallery in Regina, Canada....

Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize. (Newswire).(Shirana Shahbazi)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... This year's Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize was awarded to Shirana Shahbazi for her solo exhibition at The Photographer's Gallery in London last fall. Shahbazi was presented with a check for [epsilon]15,000 and a bouquet of flowers....

Reind M. De Vries European Photography Prize. (Newswire).(Andreas Muller-Pohle)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Reind M. De Vries European Photography Prize, a newly inaugurated prize, has been awarded to Andreas Muller-Pohle, editor and publisher of the magazine European Photography, as well as the Euro peon Photography Guide. The prize carries a...

Museum of Fine Arts. (Newswire).(Houston)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has announced the acquisition of an encyclopedic photography collection formed by the Amsterdam-based collector Manfred Heiting. The collection is composed of 3,760 photographs spanning the years 1840-2000.

New Langton Arts. (Newswire).(2002 Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... New Langton Arts, the San Francisco-based arts organization, has announced the recipients of the 2002 Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, with awards totaling $50,000. The four recipients have been awarded $12,500 each for community-based art projects in...

Mattress Factory. (Newswire).
May 1, 2002... The Mattress Factory, a museum of contemporary art located in Pittsburgh, PA, has received an impressive total of $660,000 in grant support from local and national donors, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Vira I. Heinz...

Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Newswire).(Michael Hoffman: A Tribute in Pictures)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... In celebration of the life and legacy of the late Michael Hoffman, adjunct curator of photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum is presenting "Michael Hoffman: A Tribute in Pictures," which will remain on view at the Museum...

Maryland Art Place. (Newswire).(director leaves)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Maryland Art Place (MAP) has announced the departure of its Executive Director for the past decade, Jack Rasmussen. As of March 1, 2002, Dr. Rasmussen will be Executive Director of the di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature in Napa, CA. Julie Cavnor,...

Leeway Foundation. (Newswire).(women artists' grants)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Leeway Foundation of Philadelphia, PA, has announced the selection of ten women artists to receive its Window of Opportunity grants, totaling $17,460. Among them are photographer Genevieve Coutroubis, Malkia Kokuyamba Lydia, a media artist,...

Brooklyn Museum of Art. (Newswire).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... In a gesture befitting the patriotic fervor so prevalent in America today, the Brooklyn Museum of Art has accepted the donation of a twenty-nine foot version of the Statue of Liberty. Formerly installed for 100 years atop a warehouse on the...

Postscript to a postcard.(early popular photography)
May 1, 2002... To look at the portrait of an individual is to invite oneself to all sorts of speculations as to who they were, how they would have spoken, what they would have thought. --Phillip Stokes, The Family Photography Album: So Great a Cloud of...

An historical bargain.
May 1, 2002... [1] This early twentieth-century photograph was purchased a few years ago for an unremarkable sum at a trade show in Las Vegas. If one had the patience to sort through the mass of images scattered across the oblong table something of...

Secular santos.(fotoescultura, three-dimensional photographic portraiture)
May 1, 2002... It was in Laredo, Texas, on the evening of January 6, 1998, that I first met Ms. Gloria Gonzales Hein. Her son arranged my visit after he learned of my interviews with local families who owned fotoesculturas, a distinct form of...

The life of the party.(the Polaroid SX-70 Land camera and instant film photography)
May 1, 2002... In the ongoing push for consumer ease that characterizes the history of popular photography, the Polaroid Corporation stands as the undisputed champion of the later twentieth century. Among its many successes and numerous patents--including the...

With a wink of an eye.(lenticular photography)
May 1, 2002... [1] You may not have heard the term "lenticular" before, but I am sure you have come across these images many times. It is difficult not to notice them--and that's their main purpose. Lenticulars are images that contain some kind of...

Memory. Cleverly disguised as a database.(technology meets the family album, Apple iPhoto)
May 1, 2002... Old. "Our Baby" must be the offspring of humankind. The album craftily compiled for baby Walter Dean Hieby by his mother, Ursula, bears this ubiquitous title, and my own parents also kept one, equally blue for a boy, with the same...

Nothing could be more appropriate.(photographically illustrated quilts at George Eastman House)
May 1, 2002... The ideal homemaker of the 1890s took special care to create a well-appointed and attractive surrounding for her family. Pretty and unique decorations, homemade and hand crafted, were the hallmarks of a nurturing home. Quilts, pottery,...

Finding "me".(Mary von Rosen's photo album)
May 1, 2002... I first saw her while browsing in a second-hand store in Wilmington, Delaware. As I flipped through a sheaf of loosely bound pages pasted with photographs, there she was: a teenage girl perched demurely on an oak-and-leather settle. [1] In the...

Rhizome.org. (Voiceover).(new media art )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... GLORIA SUTTON is in the Ph.D. program of the Department of Art History at UCLA and has been on the Board of Directors of Rhizome.org since 1998. If the discourse on new media art was condensed into a single body and hooked up to a monitor...

Lev Manovich's The Language of New Media. (Voiceover).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... TREBOR SCHULZ is an East-Berlin-born, Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist and curator who studied at the Whitney Independent Study Program. He exhibits, lectures and curates widely in Europe and the Americas. The focus on aesthetics...

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. (Voiceover).(new media art)
May 1, 2002... J. FIONA RAGHEB is Associate Curator for Collections and Exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In rejecting the terms "sculpture" and "environment" for his work some forty years ago, Dan Flavin recognized the increasing...

Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums.
May 1, 2002... Martha Langford Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001 Martha Langford aptly introduces her discussion on suspended conversations with a preface proclaiming "HelloHelloHello" after the recorded voice of great...

Peter Hendricks: good copy.
May 1, 2002... How many words do I dedicate to something so forgettable? Peter Hendricks: good copy is one of those books of grainy photographs that we have come to recognize as "amateurish." As the title states, it is an album of images, generated from the...

Klosk: A History of Photojournalism.
May 1, 2002... Robert Lebeck and Bodo von Dewitz, eds. Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2002 This unusual history of photojournalism eschews the producers for the products- instead of big names and canonical images Kiosk focuses on covers and inside...

The Black Female Body: A Photographic History.
May 1, 2002... Deborah Willis and Carla Williams Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2002 The Black Female Body is a fascinating survey of photographic representations of black women of African descent. Authors Deborah Willis and Carla...

Metal and Flesh: The Evolution of Man Technology Takes Over.
May 1, 2002... Ollivier Dyens Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001 Written with a passion for humanity and a utopian lust for science, Metal and Flesh considers the status and future of the body in machine culture. Author Ollivier Dyens frames the body as...

Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy.
May 1, 2002... Ariella Azoulay Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001 Using Walter Benjamin's seminal essay "The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction" as a springboard, Israeli writer and professor Ariella Azoulay manages to construct a book of...

The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place.
May 1, 2002... Scott MacDonald Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001 Scott MacDonald has released The Garden in the Machine, a highly anticipated book on landscape and sense of place in independent film. In his ongoing series of...

Screening Asian Americans.
May 1, 2002... Peter X Feng, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002 Screening Asian Americans is a collection of critical essays that its editor, Peter X Feng, describes as an anthology "that serves to constitute Asian American...

Showcase.
May 1, 2002... ARIZONA Scotsdale: Scotsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures. May 25-Aug. 15. Tempe: ASU Art Museum, Nelsen Fine Arts Center, Mill Ave. and 10th St. Lindsay...

Events.
May 1, 2002... ARIZONA Workshop: Edition Book Production, a two-dog 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 Workshops:...

Exhibitions available. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Exhibitions available: pARTs Photographic Arts has produced an important exhibition of contemporary Cuban photography that is available to tour through 2003. "From the Negative: Conceptual Photography from Cuba" consists of new work by 11...

Fellowships available. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Fellowships available: SUNY at Buffalo offers a two-gear graduate MFA program in photography. A number of teaching assistantships are awarded each gear, designed to attract gifted students who have demonstrated artistic ability and teaching...

Grants available. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Grants available: The Leeway Foundation is offering its Window of Opportunity Grants for 2002, providing immediate, short-term grants of up to $2,000 to Philadelphia-area women artists. Grants are open to artists in all fields. For information...

Internships available. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Internships available: Arts Administration interns are sought by the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Training opportunities include producing workshops, publishing the Photography Quarterly magazine, implementing the gear-round visual arts...

Opportunity available. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Opportunity available: The Department of Art at The Ohio State University offers a two-year MFA program in photography. Graduate Teaching Assistantships with stipend and full tuition waivers will be available for the 2002-03 academic year. For...

Residencies available. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Residencies available: The Banff Centre offers Media S Visual Arts residencies in television, interactive media, multimedia and research. The cost of residencies varies and there may be some financial assistance awarded on a project-to-project...

Submit films. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Submit films: Marco Island Film Festival student competition celebrates student cinema storytellers from around the world, showcasing their film, video and animated features during its five-day festival in S.W. Florida. A non-refundable entry...

Submit films and videos. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Submit films and videos: To Pay Attention, a monthly screening series focused on bringing new voices/new visions to upstate New York, presented by the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Woodstock Film Festival. All genres welcome....

Submit papers. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Submit papers: To The Journal of Artists' Books (JAB), founded in 1994 to provide a forum for the lively and critical debate about artists' books and their contents. JAB publishes articles, interviews, book reviews and exhibition reviews twice...

Submit photographs. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Submit photographs: Soho Photo Gallery of New York City announces a juried national photography exhibition: Through The Lens of September 11, based on the attack on America and its aftermath. Three 35 mm. slides may be submitted for a $25 fee;...

Submit proposals. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Submit proposals: E3 Gallery is currently accepting exhibition proposals for the upcoming calender year beginning Jun. 2002. Proposals should include slides, prints or color copies, a resume and a cover letter stating your name, medium of...

Submit slides. (Etc.).
May 1, 2002... Submit slides: Reviewing slides for inclusion in a presentation at the National Gallery, London. Topic is "Photo Imaging: Beyond the Surface, toward Surround and Structure." The conference is "Drapery in Visual Culture: Contexts, Clothing,...

Submit videos. (Etc.).(advertisements for videogrphers)
May 1, 2002... Submit videos: "small & UGLY' presents video works that anticipate, accept and welcome the unique faults of streaming Internet video in a knowing embrace of the less than perfect. Seeking conceptual video, film and animated works under 10...

Submit work. (Etc.).(advertisements for videographers)
May 1, 2002... Submit work: San Francisco Camerawork seeks work for "Truth and Lies: Reality and Fabrication in Narrative Genres," a show at the Oakland Art Gallery, Sept. 19-Nov. 2. Proposals for inclusion of Photography, Video, New Media, and Internet-Based...

World Press Photo Contest. (Newswire).(Erik Refner award)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The international Jury of the 45th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected a black and white photograph, originally published by the newspaper Berlingske Tidende, by the Danish photographer Erik Refner as the 2001 World Press Photo of the...