Afterimage articles from May 2004

Afterimage archives from May 2004

Denise Colomb, 1902-2004.(Obituaries)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
May 1, 2004... French Denise Loeb was born in Paris on April 1, 1902. She took the name "Colomb" during WW II in order to escape deportation. Along with Rogi Andre, she was one of the great female portraitists of the twentieth century. Although a cello player...

Estelle Jussim, 1927-2004.(Obituaries)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
May 1, 2004... Estelle Jussim, regarded as one of the most highly regarded and influential voices in photography and other media, died March 1, 2004. An art historian and a communications theorist, Jussim wrote extensively about photographers, movements, and...

Notes from the field.
May 1, 2004... aThe Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Museum in Rridgeport, CT will celebrate its Grand Reopening June 13, following a $9 milion renovation and expansion program. Designed by Tappe associates of Boston, the 25,000 square feet of new and...

Editorial.(Editorial)
May 1, 2004... This issue is not meant to be a pessimistic note about human nature, it is dedicated to Photography and War, a topic that, unfortunately, never goes out of fashion. In 1973 Donald McCullin asked the question Is Anyone Taking Any Notice? in a...

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... From Bill Arnold I went to the pay what-you-want-night the opening week for the Whitney Bi-Annual. The line stretched around the corner, down 75th Street and around the next corner on to Park. All that anticipation without celebration, no...

On James Natchwey and VII; From Inferno to war: a few considerations on James Natchwey, VII, and war photography.(Photography and War -- Report)
May 1, 2004... "Even in the age of television, still photography maintains a unique ability to grasp a moment out of the chaos of history and to preserve it and hold it up to the light. It puts a human face on events that might otherwise become clouded in...

Lager Nordhausen: a soldier's point of view.(Photography and War -- Essay)
May 1, 2004... April 12, 1945, the day that Roosevelt died, was the day when these images were made, not by a "war photographer", but by an regular American soldier, not assigned to photograph the carnage, but assigned instead to deal with it, to clean it up,...

Unconscionable or communicable: the transference of Holocaust photography in cyber space.(Photography and War -- Essay)(Holocaust on Your Plate)
May 1, 2004... Holocaust on Your Plate, a campaign launched in 2003 by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), is a controversial example of the exploitation of significant historical images. PETA's use of concentration camp photographs to mirror...

Alexandra Boulat -- VII.(Photography and War -- Interview)(Interview)
May 1, 2004... How did you come to photograph in conflict situations? What is your background? What were your intentions when you started photography? How have they evolved? I have studied art, painting, and art history in Paris, and I was a painter for...

On ethics and censorship.(Photography and War -- Interview)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... My ethic is to tell the truth, to be journalistically sharp and, once on the field, not to go for the obvious only but also to point out subjects and stories that are not being told too often. I believe that often, there are two sides to a...

Finding refuge: Fazal Sheikh's three projects.(Photography and War)
May 1, 2004... Fazal Sheikh presents himself as a contemporary photographer seeking personal and global answers through bringing awareness to various Middle Eastern stories. Sheikh has become the ultimate humanitarian artist. With his compassionate images, he...

Paul Shambroom: Face to Face With the Bomb.(Photography and War -- Interview)(Interview)
May 1, 2004... Face-To-Face With the Bomb: Nuclear Reality After the Cold War, Photographs by Paul Shambroom. Introduction by Richard Rhodes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. The following dialogue is a distillation of conversations...

Anthony Suau on war.(Photography and War -- Interview)
May 1, 2004... I am not a war photographer. I have photographed war because it is an inherent and a highly unfortunate part of human life. What situations have you photographed so far? Check my web-site: www.anthonysuau.com or anthonysuau.com/clients...

Chris Steele-Perkins: from Survival Programmes to Magnum.(Photography and War -- Interview)(Interview)
May 1, 2004... Chris Steele-Perkins was born in Rangoon, Burma, in 1947. His father took him back to Britain where he did most of his schooling. After graduating in psychology and while he was lecturing, he started free-lancing in photography. Joining the...

War in Iraq: The Coordinates of Conflict; Photographs by VII.(Photography and War -- Interview)
May 1, 2004... ____International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas--New York, NY 10036 Ph 212.857,0000 March 12-May 30, 2004 Photographs convey multiple layers of information through the recorded trace of one fleeting moment...

Manufactured Landscapes: the photographs of Edward Burtynsky.(Exhibitions)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2004... Edward Burtynsky's mid-career retrospective, Manufactured Landscapes, closed April 4, 2004 at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto after four months of winter reverie. The exhibit showcased 60 large-format photographs, proving Burtynsky an...

Project reserve.(Photography and War -- Portfolio)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Inspired by a sense of duty, I joined the military ten years ago. Looking back now, I see my naivete in not knowing the difference between loyalty to country and loyalty to government. As the politics of policy changes, my praise for government...

Against photography: Susan Sontag and the violent image.(Photography and War -- Essay)
May 1, 2004... In a December 2002 New Yorker essay entitled "Looking at War," recently published in revised form as the book Regarding the Pain of Others, American social critic Susan Sontag begins by recalling Virginia Woolf's 1938 anti-war polemic Three...

Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer.(Photography and War -- Essay)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... SHOOTING UNDER FIRE THE WORLD OF THE WAR PHOTOGRAPHER, BY PETER HOWE NEW YORK, ARTISAN, 2002 224PP. $3500 Shooting Under Fire is a series of ten monologues by ten different war photographers about what led them to become photographers...

War issue bibliography.(Photography and War -- Bibliography)(Bibliography)
May 1, 2004... Abbas. La revolution confisquee. paris: Clerat, 1980. Associated Press. Memories of World War II. New York: H.N. Abrams, 2004. Bachner, Evan. At Ease: Navy Men of World War II. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004. Boomhower, Ray...

War in Iraq: The Coordinates of a Conflict; An exhibition of Photographs by VII. A second opinion.(Review)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2004... The War in Iraq: Coordinates of Conflict, Photographs by VII, March 12 thru May 30, 2004. Marianne Fulton writes of photographer Carl Mangly famed photo, a Korean woman carrying her baby and worldly goods flees the fighting around Seoul in...

SPE conference 2004; Photography and Place: home/neighborhood/nation/world.newport (RI), March 25-28, 2004.(Report)
May 1, 2004... Place is space with character. This year for the 41st annual conference of the Society for Photographic Education, place meant Newport, Rhode Island, founded in 1639. Photography and Place, is a typical theme for a restricted as well as...

Crossing the Boulevard.(Books Reviewed/Shows)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... CROSSING THE BOULEVARD BY WARREN LERHER AND JUDITH SLOAN New york., W.W. Norton, 2003 $19.95 (hb), with CD In a project inspired by the changing cultural landscape of the neighborhood in which they live. Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer...

Agent Orange: "Collatteral Damage" in Viet Nam.(Photography and War -- Books Reviewed)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... AGENT ORANGE: "COLLATTERAL DAMAGE" IN VIEW NAM BY PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS London: Trolley Ltd, 2003. 176 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Philip Jones Griffiths drew public attention in 1971 when he published Vietnam Inc., a book that focused on...

Casualty of War: The Bush Administration's Assault on a Free Press.(Photography and War -- Books Reviewed)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... CASUALTY OF WAR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S ASSAULT ON A FREE PRESS BY DAVID DADGE New York: Prometheus Books 2004/ $26.95 (hb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There is no Ministry of Information. We have no Office of the Censor. President...

Baghdad Blues: A War Diary.(Photography and War -- Books Reviewed)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... BAGHDAD BLUES A WAR DIARY BY DAVID TURNLEY New York: The Vendome Press, 2003. 160 p./$25. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "On the last day of the first Gulf War in 1991, I made a photograph of a young soldier being evacuated in a...

Hidden.(Photography and War -- Books Reviewed)(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... HIDDEN BY PAUL SEAWRIGHT London: Imperial War Museum, 2003. Paul Seawright is the current director of the Center for Photographic Research as well as the Dean of the School of Art, Media and Design at the University of Wales College,...

Books received.
May 1, 2004... Absence and Light: Meditations from the Klamath Marshes, by John R. Campbell. University of Nevada Press/ 142pp./$21.95 (sb). Anne Arden McDonald: Installations and Self Portraits, by Anne Arden McDonald. Autonomy and Alchemy...

Notices.(Calendar)
May 1, 2004... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, southwestNET:PHX/ LA. Through September 5. 7380 East Second Street. (480) 874-4665 / smoca@sccarts.org/www.smoca.org. Tuscon: Center for Creative Photography,...

Tears of Stone: World War I remembered.(Photography and War -- Gallery)
May 1, 2004... List of plates: 1 -- Fort Douaumont, France. 2 -- Villers-Carbonnel French Military Cemetery, France. 3 -- Villers-Cotterets French Military Cemetery, France. 4 -- Memento, Vermandovillers German Military Cemetery, France. ...