Afterimage articles from May 2005

Afterimage archives from May 2005

Editorial.(news)
May 1, 2005... As I wrote in the March/April 2005 issue, it is an exciting time for Afterimage. For more than three decades, Afterimage has been an important voice in the avant-garde photography, film, video and visual book community--a legacy of which we are...

Letter to the editor.(news)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2005... To the Editor: I was happy to see the review of Black Panthers: Photography by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones in the September/October 2004 issue of Afterimage [Volume 32, no. 2]. Because there are so few voices expressing dissent in...

L. Fritz Gruber (1908-2005).(news)(Obituary)
May 1, 2005... Photographer, publisher and founder of the German Society of Photography, L. Fritz Gruber, died on March 31, 2005 in his native Cologne, Germany, just a few months short of his 97th birthday. Gruber was born in 1908 at the end of the Wilhelmine...

Nadine L. McGann (1962-2004).(news)(Obituary)
May 1, 2005... Former Afterimage coeditor Nadine L. McGann died unexpectedly in October 2004 at age 42. Known within the Afterimage community as a versatile critic and skilled editor, McGann joined the staff in 1989 as an assistant during my tenure as editor....

DoubleTake's downfall.(news)
May 1, 2005... "I would tell the children I wasn't interested in finding out anything in particular, merely knowing, to a degree, how they lived and what they thought about--insofar as it was their inclination to tell me."--Robert Coles, Children of...

The expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is complete.(Notes from the Field)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is complete. The expansion, which opened April 16, 2005, includes a new theater, new galleries that double the amount of space previously available, a skyline viewing room and many more...

Andrea Rich, who directed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for the past 10 years, resigned.(Notes from the Field)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Andrea Rich, who directed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for the past 10 years, resigned from her post on April 4, 2005. LACMA is set to undergo major expansions and upgrades and her resignation came as a surprise. In a press...

After 17 years as executive director of the Houston Center for Photography (HCP), Jean Caslin resigned.(Notes from the Field)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... After 17 years as executive director of the Houston Center for Photography (HCP), Jean Caslin resigned on February 28, 2005 at the request of the board. In a press release, Kevin Bassler, the board president said, "We hope the change will...

Melissa Fleming has been named Executive Director of the National Association of Women Artists.(Notes from the Field)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Melissa Fleming has been named Executive Director of the National Association of Women Artists. Founded in 1889, the National Association of Women Artists is the oldest professional women's fine arts organization in the United States serving...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has appointed Toshiaki Koseki to be the Carol Crow Conservator of Photographs.(Notes from the Field)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has appointed Toshiaki Koseki to be the Carol Crow Conservator of Photographs, the museum's first position in the conservation department dedicated exclusively to photography. Koseki's endowed position is named...

Deanne Fitzmaurice has won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography.(Notes from the Field)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Deanne Fitzmaurice has won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography. Currently working as a photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle, Fitzmaurice earned the prestigious award for her photo essay portraying the efforts by doctors to...

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.(Notes from the Field)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... On April 5, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College presented its eighth annual Award for Curatorial Excellence to Kathy Hallbreich, director of the Walker Art Center, and to Mari Carmen Ramirez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art...

Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2005.(Notes from the Field)
May 1, 2005... The photographers shortlisted for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2005 are Luc Delahaye, JH Engstrom, Jorg Sasse and Stephen Shore. An exhibition will be held at The Photographers' Gallery in London until June 5, 2005 with the award...

The Santa Fe Center for Photography.(Notes from the Field)
May 1, 2005... The Santa Fe Center for Photography announced David Anderson as its 10th annual Project Competition winner for his project "Rough Beauty." In the Singular Image: Black and White category, prizes of various gifts and certificates were given to...

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.(Notes from the Field)
May 1, 2005... The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the 2005 Fellowship winners. One hundred and eighty-six artists, scholars and scientists have been selected from over 3000 applicants for awards totaling $7,112,000. The 2005...

The 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards.(Notes from the Field)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards dispersed [pounds sterling]15,000 in prizes at London's Hungarian Embassy in March. The two main prizes of [pounds sterling]5000 each were awarded to the Italian photographer Antonio Biasiucci for...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.(Notes from the Field)
May 1, 2005... Neal Benezra, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), announced on March 15, 2005 the promised gift of nearly 800 photographs to the Prentice and Paul Sack Photographic Trust at SFMOMA from the Sacks' private collection....

The 51st International La Biennale di Venezia or Venice Biennale.(Notes from the Field)
May 1, 2005... The 51st International La Biennale di Venezia or Venice Biennale, will take place from June 12 to November 6, 2005. The exhibition will present two different shows: "The Experience of Art," which will explore how far art has come today, curated...

David Rockefeller pledges $100 million to New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).(Notes from the Field)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... David Rockefeller pledges $100 million to New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Rockefeller, who is the chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the museum, has helped secure its long-term financial stability by giving MoMA its...

Secret Service investigates exhibit.(Notes from the Field)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Secret Service Investigates Exhibit. After a call from an anonymous Chicago resident, Secret Service agents were sent to investigate a Columbia College art exhibit entitled "Axis of Evil: The Secret History of Sin." The exhibition featured mock...

SPE's Passage through Portland.(reports)(Society for Photographic Education)
May 1, 2005... 42nd Annual SPE National Conference Portland, Oregon March 17-20, 2005 The theme of the 2005 National Conference of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) was "Passage," which proved to be an open-ended metaphor for journeys...

Negotiating time.(DIVA ART Fair)
May 1, 2005... DIVA ART Fair New York, New York March 11-13, 2005 From March 11-13, 2005 30 guest suites in New York City were occupied by international gallerists screening videos as part of the DIVA (Digital Art and Video) ART Fair. Each suite...

Cinematic shift.(Belgrade's 33rd International Film Festival)
May 1, 2005... FEST 2005: Belgrade's 33rd International Film Festival Belgrade, Serbia February 25-March 6, 2005 French screen legend Catherine Deneuve opened Belgrade's 33rd International Film Festival--FEST 2005--on February 25, 2005 in the...

S'mores and the silver screen.(reports)(Taos Picture Show)
May 1, 2005... Taos Picture Show Taos, New Mexico March 30-April 3, 2005 Like a multi-headed phoenix rising from the ashes of the esteemed but ultimately financially doomed Taos Talking Pictures festival, which folded in 2003 after nine years, a...

London calling.(reports)(Society for Cinema and Media Studies meet makes a way)
May 1, 2005... Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference London, England March 31-April 3, 2005 This year's Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference was not the first to be held outside of the United States, but it extended...

The strange case of Steve Kurtz: Critical Art Ensemble and the price of freedom.(feature)(Interview)
May 1, 2005... On the morning of May 11, 2004 Steve Kurtz, an Associate Professor of Art at the University at Buffalo (UB) and cofounder of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), awoke in his Buffalo, New York home to discover that Hope Kurtz, his wife of 27 years and...

Peter Tonningsen dancing with the dead.(portfolio)(Brief Article)(Biography)
May 1, 2005... Continuing my interest in self-portraiture, I used my shadow in this sequence to make and remake my own image into a cast of characters who frolic about a cemetery where several of my family members are interned. These self-portrait photographs...

Death is more perfect than life.(Larry Clark)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2005... Larry Clark International Center of Photography New York, New York March 11-June 5, 2005 The conformity that saturated American society in the postwar 1950s created unreal expectations among the population due to the media's...

Life on the grid.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Trajectories: The Photographic Work of Robbert Flick Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, California September 12, 2004-January 9, 2005 Robbert Flick: Trajectories with essays by Michael Dear, David Ulin and Tim B....

Curating silence.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2005... The Space Beyond Silence MediaNoche New York, New York February 10-March 3, 2005 For such a tiny installation, "The Space Beyond Silence," at MediaNoche, a fairly new and innovative space located in Spanish Harlem, succeeded...

What pictures look like.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Uta Barth by Pamela M. Lee, Matthew Higgs and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Contemporary Artists Series London: Phaidon, 2004/160 pp./$39.95 (sb) As a new addition to their "Contemporary Artists Series," Phaidon has published Uta...

Waiting room to a dream.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Cuban Cinema by Michael Chanan Cultural Studies of the Americas, Volume 14 University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2004/538 pp./$77.95 (hb), $25.95 (sb) In Giron, Cuban filmmaker Manuel Herrera's 1972 documentary about...

Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought.(books noted)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought by Ernst van Alphen The University of Chicago Press/228 pp./$25.00 (sb). Van Alphen argues, drawing from French philosopher and art historian Hubert Damisch, that art "thinks." Art is...

Cuts: Texts 1959-2004.(books noted)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Cuts: Texts 1959-2004 by Carl Andre MIT Press/331 pp./$45.00 (sb). Cuts is the most recent edition to the Writing Art Series published by the MIT Press. Each work of the series is a small diaristic sample of writings, poems and...

Magnum Stories.(books noted)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Magnum Stories edited by Chris Boot Phaidon/511 pp./$79.95 (hb). Magnum Stories showcases the work of 61 of the most representative members of the photography agency Magnum from its foundation in 1947 to the present. Listed...

Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture After Minimalism.(books noted)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture After Minimalism by Mark Linder MIT Press/282 pp./$40.00 (hb). In a scholarly discourse, Linder asserts his theories on architecture and its role in minimalist art and modernist concepts. A...

Books received.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film since 1965, by Paul Arthur. University of Minnesota Press/232 pp./$59.95 (hb), $19.95 (sb). Acting Out: Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography, by Kathleen A. Edwards. University of Iowa...

Notices.(Calendar)
May 1, 2005... EXHIBITIONS ALABAMA Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2000 8th Ave. N. Of One Spirit: Keehn Berry as Photographer and Patron. Through July 10. (205) 254-2566 / www.artsbma.org. ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of...