Afterimage articles from May 2006

Afterimage archives from May 2006

Gordon Parks: 1912-2006.(news)(obituary)(Obituary)
May 1, 2006... Gordon Parks, whose contributions to American culture spanned several decades and numerous genres, passed away at his home in New York City on March 7, 2006. He was ninety-three years old. Born in the tiny plains town of Fort Scott, Kansas,...

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announces winners of awards totaling $7,500,000.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announces winners of awards totaling $7,500,000. One hundred and eighty seven artists, scholars, and scientists were selected from three thousand applications as Fellowship winners for 2006....

The Deutsche Borse--Photography prize 2006 was awarded to Robert Adams.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The Deutsche Borse--Photography Prize 2006 was awarded to Robert Adams, announced Sue Davies, founding director of The Photographers' Gallery. The annual prize awards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant...

The Santa Fe Center for Photography awarded the 2006 Santa Fe Prize to Sheila Pree Bright.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The Santa Fe Center for Photography awarded the 2006 Santa Fe Prize to Sheila Pree Bright for her project "Suburbia." The project is an exploration of suburban life within African American culture. Bright was selected by Chris Pichler of...

Residencies were recently given to twenty-five Gulf Coast artists in need.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Residencies were recently given to twenty-five Gulf Coast artists in need. The James Irvine Foundation selected twenty-five Gulf artists to participate in the "Gulf Coast Artists Hurricane Relief Program." The program includes a one- to...

The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) announced a new director.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Hou Hanru is appointed)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) announced a new director. Hou Hanru, a renowned curator, was appointed Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chair of the Museum Studies Program at SFAI. Hanru will be responsible for overseeing...

Cara Mertes has been appointed director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Cara Mertes has been appointed director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program. In addition to ongoing support for documentary filmmakers, the position includes oversight of the Documentary Film Program, the Sundance Documentary...

University of Southern California's (USC) School of Fine Arts President Stephen B. Sample renamed the school.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... University of Southern California's (USC) School of Fine Arts President Stephen B. Sample renamed the school the USC Gayle Roski School of Fine Arts in honor of the $23 million pledge made by Los Angeles art patrons Gayle and Edward P. Roski...

Art in General announced the launch of www.FineArtAdoption.net.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Art in General announced the launch of www.FineArtAdoption.net. Initiated by Brooklyn-based visual artist Adam Simon, Fine Art Adoption Network (FAAN) uses the Web to provide a new way for artists to share their work and gain exposure. After...

Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea is publishing a new quarterly journal, BOL.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea is publishing a new quarterly journal, BOL, focusing on art and visual culture. The first issue, Winter 2005, featured almost three hundred pages of images and critical arts writing, in both Korean and...

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York launched a new certificate program called Photo Global.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York launched a new certificate program called Photo Global. This new one-year residency in critical photography for international students will begin with the 2006-2007 academic year. Participating...

Video franchise bill passes a House subcommittee.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Video franchise bill passes a House subcommittee. Proposed by Representative Joe Barton, the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee approved the bill. Part of the approval included the rejection of an amendment...

Cinema scope.(Society for Cinema and Media Studies)
May 1, 2006... THE SOCIETY FOR CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES CONFERENCE VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA MARCH 2-5, 2006 As I flew into snowy yet verdant Vancouver, British Columbia, for the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, it...

From Russia with love.(6th International Photography month)
May 1, 2006... THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY MONTH IN MOSCOW: PHOTOBIENNALE 2006 MOSCOW, RUSSIA MARCH 23-MAY 14, 2006 Formerly exemplifying the dreariness of Soviet culture, the Gosudarstvenny Universalny Magazin (GUM) is now considered the...

Still kicking.(conferance of College Art Association of America)
May 1, 2006... COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS FEBRUARY 22-25, 2006 Since its founding in 1912, the annual conference of the College Art Association (CAA) has expanded to serve an abundance of needs, both...

At the crossroads.(book arts academic educators gather at University of Alabama)
May 1, 2006... BOOK ARTS ACADEMIC EDUCATORS WORKING GROUP MEETING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA JANUARY 13-14, 2006 On January 13 and 14, 2006, over fifty book arts educators met at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, for...

Foundling films.(Fifth Orphan Film Symposium, University of South Carolina, Columbia)(Conference news)
May 1, 2006... ORPHANS 5: SCIENCE, INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA MARCH 22-25, 2006 Two hundred registered participants gathered at the University of South Carolina in Columbia for the Fifth...

Foam follows function.(FotoMuseum Amsterdam organises exhibition)
May 1, 2006... FOAM_FUSION FOTOMUSEUM AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS APRIL 7-8, 2006 If a museum's function is to be both didactic and inspiring, then the FotoMuseum Amsterdam (FOAM) pulled off a very successful weekend during what...

Down under but not out back.(Artists' Book Forum, Artspace Mackay, Queensland)(Conference news)
May 1, 2006... FOCUS ON ARTISTS' BOOKS III ARTSPACE MACKAY MACKAY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA FEBRUARY 25-26, 2006 Artspace Mackay, a regional arts center located in a small coastal town in tropical Queensland, holds one of the most significant...

Praising Postman.(Neil Postman)(Conference news)
May 1, 2006... PERSPECTIVES ON POSTMAN: A SYMPOSIUM NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, NEW YORK APRIL 6, 2006 It was 1971 when I discovered Neil Postman. I was waiting in line at a university bookstore and Postman's latest book, The Soft...

Pedagogy and Pluralism.(conferance for Society for Photographic Education)
May 1, 2006... 43RD SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION NATIONAL CONFERENCE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS MARCH 23-26, 2006 While many recent national conferences of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) have addressed the influence of new...

Mining the beautiful.(contemporary photography)
May 1, 2006... Like other fine arts, the general practice of photography always produces a subjective document, a still moment that has been abstracted from a larger objective reality. By the 1950s, art critic Clement Greenberg used a subjective method of...

Democracy's promise and the politics of worldliness: implications for public intellectuals.
May 1, 2006... In the United States, a war is not only being waged abroad, but also at home. Young people increasingly find themselves out of work, warehoused in substandard schools, or under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system; people of color...

Latter-Day screens: a history of Mormons and the movies.
May 1, 2006... Demographically outnumbered by Catholics, Baptists, and United Methodists, (1) and internally fragmented into nearly fifty denominations, (2) followers of Mormonism, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS, or "the Church"), (3)...

South Bronx diaries.( Joselyn DeJesus)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... My life has been full of challenges and opportunities. I grew up in public housing in the South Bronx after my parents came to the mainland United States from Puerto Rico. I lost my mother early in life and my father was on public assistance....

Getting beyond: is photography a lost tradition?(feature)
May 1, 2006... Poststructuralism, postmodernism, postmorality--the question of whether "post" is an accomplishment or merely an operative word seems to be an enduring dilemma. The question for photography since World War II has been whether the medium can...

Flights of fancy.(Tracey Moffatt)
May 1, 2006... TRACEY MOFFATT: LOVE AND ADVENTURES VICTORIA MIRO GALLERY LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM JANUARY 20-FEBRUARY 18, 2006 TRACEY MOFFATT: LOVE STEVEN KASHER GALLERY NEW YORK, NEW YORK MARCH 7-APRIL 29, 2006 Tracey...

The past is the new future.("The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age")
May 1, 2006... THE IMAGE WROUGHT: HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC APPROACHES IN THE DIGITAL AGE RANSOM CENTER GALLERIES, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN AUSTIN, TEXAS JANUARY 31-AUGUST 6, 2006 A beautiful and thought-provoking exhibition on historical...

Animated journeys.(William Kentridge)
May 1, 2006... WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: 7 FRAGMENTS FOR GEORGES MELIES MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 11, 2005-FEBRUARY 26, 2006 Born in Johannesburg in 1955, William Kentridge became...

Mapping the trajectory of vision.(Museum of Modern Art )
May 1, 2006... NEW PHOTOGRAPHY '05: CARLOS GARAICOA, BERTIEN VAN MANEN, PHILLIP PISCIOTTA, ROBIN RHODE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK, NEW YORK OCTOBER 21, 2005-JANUARY 16, 2006 After a period of renovation, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)...

Truth is stranger than fiction.(exhibition of Tim Roda's works)
May 1, 2006... TIM RODA: PHOTOGRAPHS GREG KUCERA GALLERY SEATTLE, WASHINGTON JANUARY 5-FEBRUARY 11, 2006 Tim Roda's second exhibition, on view at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, Washington, exemplifies his continued development with staged...

Out of place.(seductive color photographs exhibited by Lynne Cohen)
May 1, 2006... LYNNE COHEN: MIXED MESSAGES HASTED HUNT GALLERY NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 23-APRIL 8, 2006 Seductive color photographs of swimming pools, spas, and deserted halls by Lynne Cohen were recently on view at Hasted Hunt Gallery...

15 minutes of frame.(Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol: Catalogue Raisonne)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... ANDY WARHOL SCREEN TESTS: THE FILMS OF ANDY WARHOL CATALOGUE RAISONNE, VOLUME I BY CALLIE ANGELL NEW YORK: HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC./WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 2006 320 pp./$60.00 (HB) In 1970, Andy Warhol withdrew all of...

Can U C me?(Webaffairs)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... WEBAFFAIRS BY SHOW-N-TELL BOSTON: EIGHTEEN PUBLICATIONS, 2005 144 pp./$40.00 (HB) Surveillance has long been a subject for artistic exploration. Many artists have investigated the relationship between viewer and subject in...

From discipline to control.(Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... PROTOCOL: HOW CONTROL EXISTS AFTER DECENTRALIZATION BY ALEXANDER R. GALLOWAY CAMBRIDGE AND LONDON: MIT PRESS, 2004 248 pp./$32.95 (HB), $16.95 (SB) Alexander R. Galloway's Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization is...

Magnificent obsessions.(South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema)(New Korean Cinema)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... SOUTH KOREAN GOLDEN AGE MELODRAMA: GENDER, GENRE, AND NATIONAL CINEMA EDITED BY KATHLEEN MCHUGH AND NANCY ABELMANN DETROIT, MICHIGAN: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005 262 PP./$27.95 (SB) NEW KOREAN CINEMA EDITED BY...

Media received.
May 1, 2006... 100 Caterpillars: Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica, by Jeffrey C. Miller, Daniel H. Janzen, and Winifred Hallwachs. Harvard University Press/264 pp./$39.95(hb). Andy Kaufman: Wrestling with the American Dream, by Florian...

e.(noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... e by Masao Yamamoto. Nazraeli Press/42 pp./$75.00 (hb), $750.00 (special edition). Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto's latest book, and fifth monograph, is entitled e. As with his previous publications, e is limited to an edition...

Goddess Head.(noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... GODDESS HEAD by Dash Shaw. Teenage Dinosaur/100 pp./$11.99 (sb). Reading Dash Shaw's new artist's book, Goddess Head, is not a comfortable experience--he seems to want you to feel uneasy. Unlike the common approach to comics, focusing...

Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids.(noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... INSTANT LIGHT: TARKOVSKY POLAROIDS by Andrey Tarkovsky. Thames & Hudson/135 pp./$24.95 (sb). Few type of photographs evoke the flood of feelings and associations like a Polaroid. The familiar whirr and click of the picture being pushed...

Language to Cover A Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci.(noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... LANGUAGE TO COVER A PAGE: THE EARLY WRITINGS OF VITO ACCONCI edited by Craig Dworkin. MIT Press/411 pp./$34.95 (hb). Best known for his video and performanceart, Vito Acconci's experimental arrangements of text from the late 1960s and...

Recycled Realities.(noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... RECYCLED REALITIES by John Willis and Tom Young. University of Chicago Press/80 pp./$45.00 (hb). Photographers John Willis and Tom Young have teamed up to make pictures of trash, specifically paper trash that has mercifully been sent...

What Good are the Arts?(noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... WHAT GOOD ARE THE ARTS? by John Carey. Oxford University Press/304 pp./$26.00 (hb). In his book, What Good are the Arts?, John Carey defines the arts as "Anything that anyone has ever considered a work of art, though it may be a work...

Notices.(Public notice)(Calendar)
May 1, 2006... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Visions: outside/inside. Through-Sept. 17. Flor Garduno: Inner Light. June 9-Sept. 3. southwestNET. Ricardo Mazal: The Tomb of the Red Queen. Both...

Inklight.(image by Peter Tonningsen)
May 1, 2006... Twelve years old. She was ten years old. A young girl, pre-teen, not yet cognizant of the complexities that develop and expand outward from the onset of puberty. She wore sun dresses and went barefoot. There were shorts, loose tank-tops....