Afterimage articles from May 2009

Afterimage archives from May 2009

Disarrayed symmetry.(Photograph)
May 1, 2009... My work touches upon the subject of how everyday society is busy producing, accumulating & discarding objects in our life. My images consist of an accumulation of shreds of material objects stuffed into the given space. I touch upon various...

Sprawling out in Dallas.(Society for Photographic Education's conference )(Conference notes)
May 1, 2009... 46th annual SPE Conference Dallas March 26-29, 2009 The 46th annual Society for Photographic Education (SPE) conference took place at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Dallas, and while attendance may have seemed a bit thin,...

Resistance and celebration.(Native American Film and Video Festival)
May 1, 2009... 2009 Native American Film and Video Festival Smithsonian/National Museum of the American Indian New York City March 26-29, 2009 In celebrating its thirtieth year, the Native Film and Video Festival at the National Museum of...

Real-time spectacles: two artworks and the representation of soccer.
May 1, 2009... Two recent artworks take the soccer stadium as the arena in which to create two radically different representations of the game as a real-time spectacle. Both Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006) and...

Archival meaning: materiality, digitization, and the nineteenth-century photograph.
May 1, 2009... Just as the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology was being founded at Harvard in 1866, Alexander Gardner was photographing native American tribal delegations in images that fused portrait with typology (now at the Smithsonian's National...

Self as other.(Korean Photography)
May 1, 2009... Identity, Costume, Cliche: Korean Photography Today Photographic Center Northwest Seattle March 2-27, 2009 A true sense of self means a certain amount of liberation from the past. A mesh of oppressive history and current...

Corporate gloss.(Annenberg Space for Photography)
May 1, 2009... L8S ANG3LES Annenberg Space for Photography Los Angeles March 27-June 20, 2009 The renowned Annenberg Foundation has created a 10,000-square-foot multimedia photography center in Los Angeles, opening with the exhibition "L8S...

Book sense.
May 1, 2009... Matej Kren: Introspective Bratislava City Gallery Bratislava, Slovak Republic November 26, 2008-March 8, 2009 Magazines, newspapers, and especially books supply Matej Kren, a Slovak artist who lives in Prague, with a steady...

The magnification of space.(photograph exhibitions)
May 1, 2009... Josef Schulz: Form Yossi Milo Gallery New York City December 11, 2008-January 31, 2009 Luisa Lambri: Photographs Luhring Augustine New York City January 10-February 7, 2009 David Haxton: Color Photographs...

His pupils' nature.(John Pfahl's photographic collection)
May 1, 2009... Natura Rochester Contemporary Art Center Rochester, New York February 6-March 22, 2009 John Pfahl's work is a tireless investigation of our perceptions, encompassing a variety of approaches but always with a keen awareness of...

Contested space.(Yael Bartana's installations)
May 1, 2009... Yael Bartana P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Queens, New York October 19, 2008-May 4, 2009 Framed by rising construction, figures work together. Dedicated to their tasks, they survey the landscape and wipe sweat from their...

Black diamond.(art chronicle of technological era)
May 1, 2009... From Dust to Gold The Royal Library Copenhagen November 11, 2006-December 31, 2009 As George W, Bush prepared to leave the While House this past January, the National Archives began to fret that its computer system might...

Geo topo.(Toshio Shibata's photographs)
May 1, 2009... Toshio Shibata: Landscape Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo December 13, 2008-February 8, 2009 Toshio Shibata is known for photographs of civil engineering projects in the Japanese countryside dams, spillways,...

Exact seeing.(Do Not Refreeze: Photography Behind the Berlin Wall)
May 1, 2009... Do Not Refreeze: Photography Behind the Berlin Wall German Embassy London September 17, 2008-January 17, 2009 First shown at Manchester's Cornerhouse in 2007, "Do Not Refreeze: Photography Behind the Berlin Wall" found its...

On pondering propaganda.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Art Power By Boris Groys MIT Press, 2008 224 pp./$22.95 (hb) Boris Groys is well known for his scholarship on state-produced art--a subject that he previously explored in The Total Art of Stalinism (1992). His most recent...

Ordinary uncertainties.(William Eggleston: Democratic Camera--Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 )(Book review)
May 1, 2009... William Eggleston: Democratic Camera--Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 Whitney Museum of Art, 2008 320 pp./$65.00 (hb) "Democratic" is a word often associated with William Egglesion's work but as one English wit barked after...

A window slammed [begin strikethrough]shut[end strike through] open.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography Edited by Karen Beckman and Jean Ma Duke University Press, 2008 312 pp./$84.95 (hb), $23.95 (sb) When Tom Gunning took the stage at Princeton University in 2005 to deliver the final...

Operating without a license.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... Appropriation Edited by David Evans Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2009 240 pp./$24.95 (sb) Appropriation (2009) is the latest addition to the series "Documents of Contemporary Art" published as a joint effort of the...

Barbara crane: private views.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... APERTURE/2009/128 PP./$40.00 (HB) In the 1980s Barbara Crane attended the many varied and vibrant summer festivals in the Chicago area. Equipped with a Speed Graphic Camera and a lot of Polaroid film she created images that reveal the...

Collective memory.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... BY DOUG KEYES DECODE, INC/2008/64 PP./$35.00 (HB) In Collective Memory, Doug Keyes masterfully condenses the visual experience of reading into a series of luminous images. Photographing thirty different books ranging from Stephen W....

On the camera arts and consecutive matters: the writings of Hollis Frampton.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... EDITED BY BRUCE JENKINS MIT PRESS/2009/331 PP/$39.95 (HB) The theoretical writings of the well-known Structural filmmaker and artist Hollis Frampton's are obscure objects, with his one and only essay collection, Circles of Confusion:...

Books.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2009... America On Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies, Second Ed., by Harry ML Bensholf and Sean Griffin. Wiley-Blackwell/453 pp./$40.00 (sb). ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) as You Pursue Your Art...

Artists' books.(Brief article)(List)
May 1, 2009... Everybody I Ever Met in L.A., by Jonathan Hollingsworth. Just One Guy Press/64 pp./$35.00 (hb). Intertidal, by Jesse Burke. Decode Books/64 pp./$35.00 (hb). Kunsthalle Zurich, by Wolfgang Tillmans, JRP/Ringier c/o D.A.P/unpaginated...

Monographs.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2009... Counterpoint, by Robert and Shana Parke Harrison. Twin Palms Publishers/60 pp./$65.00 (hb). All the Days and Nights, by Doug Dubois. Aperture/128 pp./$45.00 (hb). Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty, by Roy Flukinger. University of Texas...

Exhibition catalogs.(Industrial Landscape[ing]; Synthetic Times: Media Art China, International Media Art Exhibition)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Industrial Landscape[ing], J Bennett Fitts. Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA/unpaginated/$20.00 (sb). Synthetic Times: Media Art China, International Media Art Exhibition, edited by Fan Di'an and Zhang Ga. National Art Museum of China/358...

Exhibitions.(Calendar)
May 1, 2009... ARIZONA Tucson: Etherton Gallery, 135 S. 6,h Ave. Welt Told Tales. Through June 6. Rock Star. June 9-Aug. 29. www.ethertongallery.com. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Rd. Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Conner....

Events.(Calendar)
May 1, 2009... ARIZONA Events: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary An, 7374 E. 2nd St., Activities throughout the year, including classes and workshops, film screenings and lectures. www.simoca.org. CALIFORNIA Classes and Programs: Palm Springs...

ETC.(art education and grants)
May 1, 2009... Collaborative effort: L.E. Don invites you to become part of global artwork aimed at getting people to question a society motivated solely by profit. Artists across the globe are canvassing the globe with gift envelopes containing $20 U.S. or...