Afterimage articles from November 1998

Afterimage archives from November 1998

Todd Walker, 1917 - 1998.(photographer)(Obituary)
November 1, 1998... Following a short struggle with cancer, Todd Walker died in Tucson, Arizona on September 13, 1998, 12 days before his eighty-first birthday. Walker worked as a photographer, printmaker and creator of artists' books for more than 60 years...

Labor crisis.(two books about labor issues in higher education)
November 1, 1998... A math problem: How many letters would this question contain if the answer wasn't already seventy-one? Between 1975 and 1992, the academic workforce was transformed. A quick look at the data reveals an 88% increase in non-tenure-track...

Rereading and resistance.(Kobena Mercer's rereading of Robert Mapplethorpe's photograph)
November 1, 1998... There is a particular photograph that comes to mind when the issue of black masculinity in South Africa is raised. It is a 1968 picture by Peter Magubane depicting more than a dozen black men, lined up and naked in what appears to be a dimly...

The truth of appearances: nineteenth-century photography at the Getty.(photograph exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum)
November 1, 1998... In his now-classic essay of 1981, "The Traffic in Photographs," Allan Sekula incisively traced the dichotomies that from the first have structured photographic practice and discourse and which, to a greater or lesser extent, remain evident...

A perfect replica: an interview with Harun Farocki and Jill Godmilow.(filmmakers)(Interview)
November 1, 1998... The questions were posed and answered by e-mail and fax; Harun Farocki responded from Berlin and Berkeley, CA, where he dives and works; Jill Godmilow, who teaches at the University of Notre Dame, responded from New York City. This seemed...

Time frame.(remake films 'Shulie' and 'What Farocki Taught')
November 1, 1998... KATE HAUG Finally the 1960s have hit art cinema. These new films are not nostalgic nods to Stan Brakhage or documentary glimpses of long-hairs seizing university campuses. Instead, the 1960s resurface in two remakes: Elisabeth Subrin's...

Shulie.(Review)
November 1, 1998... by Elisabeth Subrin, 1997 KATE HAUG Finally the 1960s have hit art cinema. These new films are not nostalgic nods to Stan Brakhage or documentary glimpses of long-hairs seizing university campuses. Instead, the 1960s resurface in two...

What Farocki Taught.(Review)
November 1, 1998... by Jill Godmillow, 1998 KATE HAUG Finally the 1960s have hit art cinema. These new films are not nostalgic nods to Stan Brakhage or documentary glimpses of long-hairs seizing university campuses. Instead, the 1960s resurface in two...

Home sweet home.(Abigail Child's 1996 documentary film 'B/side')
November 1, 1998... JEFFREY SKOLLER Many urban artists who lived through the gentrification of major American cities in the 1980s, and struggled to find low-priced work and living space in the midst of sky-rocketing rents, unwittingly found themselves in...

B/side.(Review)
November 1, 1998... by Abigail Child, 1996 JEFFREY SKOLLER Many urban artists who lived through the gentrification of major American cities in the 1980s, and struggled to find low-priced work and living space in the midst of sky-rocketing rents,...