Afterimage articles from May 2007

Afterimage archives from May 2007

Looking out.(44TH SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION NATIONAL CONFERENCE)
May 1, 2007... 44TH SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION NATIONAL CONFERENCE MIAMI MARCH 15-18, 2007 With even the most cursory glance at the downtown Miami skyline, one is immediately struck by the signs of new, vigorous growth. Dozens of...

Media education's new code.(electronic arts education)(Interview)
May 1, 2007... As a video instructor a few summers ago, I met several art professors who had enrolled in the workshop for a weeklong swig of digital instruction in hopes of steadying themselves against the latest wave of technical demands. The concerns...

A tool for healing.(video art therapy)
May 1, 2007... Video cameras and computer editing systems are not readily accessible to people who have been or are at risk of being homeless. Through a grant from the Medical Health and Research Association of New York, I was hired to provide video art...

Snapshots from an indefinite vacation.(Francis Alys)(Critical essay)
May 1, 2007... How might an artist who tends to wander and shift his attention to altogether different material with great regularity situate his practice; that is to say, how can the artist prevent his work from almost floating away into an eclectic and...

Art and The Moving Image: an interview with Berta Sichel.(Interview)
May 1, 2007... Designed to celebrate the Reina Sofia Museum's newly acquired collection of video, "First Generation Art and The Moving Image (1963-1986)" is more than an exhibition--it is an experience. (1) There are thirty-two installations and wall...

Reinterpreting unconventional family photographs: returning to Richard Billingham's "Ray's a Laugh" series.
May 1, 2007... The British artist Richard Billingham photographed his family--his alcoholic father, large mother, and unruly brother--in their council flat in the West Midlands, England, between 1990 and 1996, producing the photo book Ray's a Laugh (1996). It...

EVERYDAY MEATLOAF.(first in the series of Meats, a series of books that represent relationships between food, religion, and traditions.)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... EVERYDAY MEATLOAF is the first book of "Meats," a series of books that represent relationships between food, religion, and traditions. Each book will introduce a different type of commonly available meat (beef, pork, lamb, and chicken) and will...

ON OTHERS' OUTLOOK.(Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran)
May 1, 2007... PERSIAN VISIONS: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM IRAN JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA, NEW YORK JANUARY 27-MARCH 18, 2007 In a time when pronouncements from the White House and the United States press...

WRITTEN LANDSCAPES.(Arcadia Id Est, an exhibition about book illustrations)
May 1, 2007... ARCADIA ID EST JOHN M. FLAXMAN LIBRARY SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO CHICAGO FEBRUARY 1-22, 2007 "Arcadia Id Est" is an artists' book exhibition curated by Sarah Bodman in 2005 and on a world tour through October...

MEDIA INTERVENTION.(Art & Society: The Work of Fred Forest)
May 1, 2007... ART & SOCIETY: THE WORK OF FRED FOREST SLOUGHT FOUNDATION PHILADELPHIA FEBRUARY 3-MARCH 23, 2007 Hailed as a pioneering new media artist and theorist, Fred Forest has worked at the forefront of interactive art, sociology, and...

FUNDAMENTAL FEMINISM.(WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, feminist art exhibition)
May 1, 2007... WACK! ART AND THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES MARCH 4-JULY 16, 2007 The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles presents one of the most interesting and thoughtful exhibitions in its...

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, edited by Cornelia Butler and Lisa Gabrielle Mark. MIT Press and MOCA/512 pp./$59.95 (sb). As Peggy Phelan, one of the contributors to the exhibition catalog WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution...

GIRL WITH MANY SELVES.(AKA Nikki S. Lee by Nikki S. Lee)
May 1, 2007... AKA NIKKI S. LEE BY NIKKI S. LEE 60 MINUTES, 2006 Like another case of art imitating life imitating popular stereotypes, a trope that defines much of Nikki S. Lee's work thus far, this fashionably mutating artist was among the...

THE OBLITERATION OF HISTORY.(History Images)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... HISTORY IMAGES BY SZE TSUNG LEONG GOTTINGEN: STEIDL, 2006 144 PP./$90.00 (HB) The cover image of Sze Tsung Leong's thought-provoking History Images, a photograph titled Chunshu, Xuanwu District, Bejing (2004), makes an...

IMAGES OF THE SPIRIT.(Eyes to Fly With: Portraits, Self-Portraits, and Other Photographs; Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... EYES TO FLY WITH: PORTRAITS, SELF-PORTRAITS, AND OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS BY GRACIELA ITURBIDE AUSTIN, TEXAS: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, 2006 212 PP./$50.00 (HB) LAS SOLDADERAS: WOMEN OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION BY ELENA...

PATHOS AT ABU GHRAIB.(The Abu Ghraib Effect)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... THE ABU GHRAIB EFFECT BY STEPHEN F. EISENMAN LONDON: REAKTION BOOKS, 2007 128 PP./$19.95 (HB) Where are the painters of modern life whose imagery has even a fraction of the disruptive impact of film footage of the September...

5x7.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... 5x7, by William Eggleston. Twin Palms Publishers/96 pp./$65.00 (hb). William Eggleston is, at this point, a living legend. It was his work in tandem with John Szarkowski's curatorial acumen that eradicated the institutional ban relegating...

Brandjam: Humanizing Brands Through Emotional Design.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Brandjam: Humanizing Brands Through Emotional Design, by Marc Gobe. Allworth Press/319 pp./$24.95 (hb). Current calculations suggest that the average American is exposed to anywhere between 300 and 3000 advertising messages per day, and...

Husk of Time: The Photographs of Victor Masayesva.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Husk of Time: The Photographs of Victor Masayesva, University of Arizona Press/103 pp./$40.00 (hb), $24.95 (sb). Close your eyes and imagine deer antlers spinning in a circle, half-submerged in a shallow, unnaturally green pond....

Self/Image: Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Self/Image: Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject, by Amelia Jones. Routledge/258 pp./$120.00 (hb), $35.95 (sb). Art often depicts an artist's perception of him/herself, literally or figuratively. In Self/Image:...

Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhone.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhone, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University/82 pp./$19.95 (sb). Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhone is a handy paperback...

Exhibitions.(NOTICES)
May 1, 2007... ARIZONA Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1030 N. Olive Rd. Human Interest: Photoessays from the Collection. Through May 27. www.creativephotography.org. Tucson: Etherton Gallery, 135 S. 6th Ave. The...