Afterimage articles from November 2001

Afterimage archives from November 2001

Letter to the Editor. (News).
November 1, 2001... To the Editor: It was an unexpected pleasure to be reading through Afterimage and to discover Jennifer Home's extensive, thoughtful and helpful review of Oscar Micheaux and His Circle (which I co-edited with Pearl Bowser and Jane Gaines)...

The Friends of Photography Closes. (News).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... San Francisco's The Friends of Photography, including its Ansel Adams Center, is closing on October 31. The Friends of Photography was founded by Adams and several colleagues including Brett Weston and Beaumont and Nancy Newhall in Carmel,...

Editorial: Media Art AS/IN Therapy. (News).(special issue post September 11, 2001)(Editorial)
November 1, 2001... Art is created and viewed for pleasure, for distraction, to tell stories, to emote, for documentation purposes, as an educational tool, to channel creative energies, for the processing of personal experience and for healing. Artists have always...

Selected Art Therapy Resources. (News).
November 1, 2001... GENERAL ART THERAPY The American Art Therapy Association, Inc. This is an informative site aimed at art therapists concerning legislative activities and issues surrounding art therapy on both the federal and state levels. Therapists...

Visual Culture and Design.(Ursinus College)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... URSINUS COLLEGE invites applications for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor to enhance the visual literacy of the campus community and create a bridge between the visual arts and the theatre programs. The successful candidate will...

Healing Interactions and Interactive Digital Art. (News and Project Statement).
November 1, 2001... Interactive media has synthesized the traditional art forms of writing, music, painting, sculpture and the moving image. CD-ROM technology and the Web can incorporate 2D and 3D graphics, movies, animations, text and sound. An added tool to this...

If This Picture Could Talk. (Project Statement).(photography class and delinquency prevention)
November 1, 2001... For a while I taught photography one day a week to girls selected by their middle school. My students were mostly, though not exclusively, young women of color. My efforts were part of a gender specific program run by a non-profit arts...

Phototherapy: Traveling Beyond Categories. (Project Statement).
November 1, 2001... I decided I was a photographer and not an artist. If sometimes it helps me to get a small grant by calling myself an artist, then of course I will. I finally called myself an educational photographer, whatever people think that means, as a way...

The Place of the Photograph in Visual Narrative Research. (Project Statement).
November 1, 2001... For the past 10 years I have been working with girls who are between eight and 21 years old, inviting them to photograph their worlds inside and outside of school. Throughout these inquiries I have had a curiosity with the "evaded"...

Using Photography In a Therapeutic Setting With Seniors. (Project Statement).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... In psychotherapy with an elderly population a photograph can be an invitation to enter a world that ordinarily would be closed to an outsider. When I walk into a client's house and see pictures on the walls dating back to when they were...

The Video Movie Project. (Project Statement).
November 1, 2001... The Video Movie project is a theraputic program for children who are patients in a large public city hospital; it takes place on the pediatric inpatient floor of the hospital and is staffed by two members of the Child Life Department. The goal...

Anya's Movies. (Project Statement).(environmental video therapy for treating children's traumatic memories)
November 1, 2001... The environmental video therapy process integrates the use of video and environmental stimuli to facilitate creative expression and a visual exploration of traumatic memories among child war survivors. As child survivors learn basic video...

Phototherapy Techniques: Using Clients' Personal Snapshots and Family Photos as Counseling and Therapy Tools; In memory of Arnold Gassan--photographer, poet and PhotoTherapy pioneer. (Feature).
November 1, 2001... Introduction Astronaut Neil Armstrong carried photographs of his parents with him on his first trip into space, so he could "take them along" with him to the moon. A child in the park excitedly shouts for his mother to come quickly to take...

Phototherapy: Academic and Clinical Explorations. (Feature).
November 1, 2001... In the mid 1990s, while pursuing my doctoral degree, I enrolled in a five-day poetry workshop led by the eminent Dr. Carol Barrett. Conducted at the UCLA campus, this was an opportunity to retreat into the poetic ministries of the written word....

A Road Less Traveled. (Artist's Pages).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Too often, artists tend to take for granted one of the most valuable benefits of being an artist: the creative act itself. We give birth and form to an idea from nothing. Artists ideally create something larger, outside of and longer lasting...

Unraveling Social Knots. (Artists Pages).(Clare Cornell C.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... I WAS TEACHING HIGH SCHOOL IN SUBURBAN DENVER I TOLD KIM TO GET THE PIECE OF JEWELRY OUT OF THE SULFURIC ACID SOLUTION WITH HER FINGERS MY PARTNER HAD A LESION ON HIS TONGUE THE SIZE OF A QUARTER THAT WAS BLEEDING PROFUSELY I...

Photography and Healing. (Artist's Pages).(Troeller Linda)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... After experiencing a healing catharsis from pain at a curative hot spring, I edited my photographs from spas around the world into the book, Healing Waters, which won the Book Award of Excellence from Pictures of the Year. Images uplifting...

The Image of Hope. (Artist's Pages).(Ted Engelmann)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... September 11,2001...images flood the mind...visions of a commercial jetliner slicing into a tall office building like hot butter, belching fire and debris out the other side. Office workers and passengers died instantly as the jet punctured the...

The Performative Body: Phototherapy and Re-Enactment. (Feature).
November 1, 2001... In the everyday world most people deal with the parts of themselves that they cannot face by psychically splitting these off and projecting them out onto others. We are all exposed to an endless stream of images in the media, chosen to confront...

Echoing Voices: Crossing Boundaries Through Personal Videos. (After Image).
November 1, 2001... Recently I attended part of a large group therapy experience called the Landmark Forum. Personally, I was turned off by the commercialization and what I perceived to be its excessively large size and I have since been pondering the value that...

From Reel To Real: Use of Video As A Therapeutic Tool. (After Image).
November 1, 2001... Videowork is a therapeutic process in which clients and therapists discuss themes and characters in popular films that relate to core issues of ongoing therapy. In videowork, I use films to facilitate self understanding, to introduce options...

New Landscapes: Community Art, Video Process and Fantasies of Disability. (After Image).
November 1, 2001... Video allows us to tell our stories differently, to renegotiate the everyday, to engage layers of meaning, silence, image and sound in ways that are specific to the medium. Disability and chronic illness can be debilitating not only by their...

The Wounded Photographer: The Genesis of Jo Spence's Camera Therapy. (Feature).
November 1, 2001... Jo Spence's photographs of her body and her disease are not simply the private record of a cancer sufferer. They explicitly tell us that having breast cancer is a social experience. The photos urge us to see highly social issues, how this...