Afterimage articles from November 2003

Afterimage archives from November 2003

Edward Said, 1935-2003.(Obituaries)
November 1, 2003... World-renowned author, philosopher and activist, Edward Said, passed away at age 67 on September 25, 2003, after battling for several years with refractory leukemia, a rare form which resists all known chemotherapies. Considered one of the...

Leni Reifenstahl, 1902-2003.(Obituaries)
November 1, 2003... Leni Reifenstahl, one of the twentieth-century's most controversial and influential filmmakers, died on September 8, 2003 at the age of 101. Born Helene Berta Amalie Reifenstahl in Berlin in 1902, Reifenstahl became a successful actress...

Elia Kazan, 1909-2003.(Obituaries)
November 1, 2003... Influential American realist filmmaker Elia Kazan died on September 28, 2003. Born Elia Kazanjoglous in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey on September 7, 1909, Kazan emigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of four....

Editorial.
November 1, 2003... Could this photograph on our front cover be read as a visual metaphor for where we, artists, critics, and educators, stand today? This image recently taken by Simon Norfolk in Afghanistan struck me the first time I saw it. Most of our lives we...

Photography in 2003: encompassing globalization, ... irenic (1) and helpless.(Feature)
November 1, 2003... As 2003 is coming to a close, it is time to share and assess this year's various events on the visual arts scene. Since 9/11, most of the works that have had any impact, besides numerous historical retrospectives (Adams, Cartier-Bresson,...

Thomas Struth: at the met May 7th, 2003.(Feature)
November 1, 2003... My heart goes out to Thomas Struth having waded into a convoluted and contradictory realm with only his intellect to guide him. Since its discovery, photography has been a haven for everyone and everything: skilled or not, the inspired and the...

Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video.(Feature)
November 1, 2003... ICP Triennial Strangers: "Presenting the works of forty contemporary artists from around the world, Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video explores the different roles that photography now plays in negotiating the...

Dangerous Curves: politics and poetry in the work of Blaise Tobia.(Feature)
November 1, 2003... Much of the art of the modern West has been openly concerned with the political transformation of bourgeois consciousness: Dada, for example, with its shrill attack on bourgeois rationalism and materialism, or Futurism's assault on bourgeois...

Evolving traditions: artists working in New Media.(Feature)
November 1, 2003... A paradigm shift in the fields of art, entertainment and publishing is taking place. Non-linear writing, interactive storytelling, immersive environments and virtual reality are words that are beginning to seep into our everyday vocabulary....

George Eastman House: The Best of Photo and Film.(Feature)
November 1, 2003... The Best of Photo and Film encompasses the entire history of film and photography, from the first camera, the first photograph ever made to digital prints, alluding to the future of photography. Upon entering The Best of Film, the viewer is met...

The Soul of a Man: "The Blues according to Wim".
November 1, 2003... The Soul of a Man Wim Wenders, Director 2003, 110 m. Part of the series, The Blues Martin Scorsese, Exec. Prod. Wenders's statement (I) that his film is "more like a poem than a documentary" is a fair description of the form and style...

American Artists in Paris, 1918 - 1939: A Transatlantic Avant-Garde.
November 1, 2003... "American Artists in Paris, 1918 - 1939: A Transatlantic Avant-Garde" Museum of American Art, 99 rue Claude Monet - 27620 Giverny, France - 33 (0) 2 32 51 94 65 August 31, 2003 - November 30, 2003 Transcending national...

Do you understand? The Dave Hickey Experience.
November 1, 2003... Throughout his recent lecture at California State University, San Bernardino, Dave Hickey rhetorically asked "Do you understand?" Fortunately, he never bothered to wait for a response, moving on in what appeared to be a stream-of-conscious...

Diane Arbus: two new books: Revelations and Family Albums.(Essay)
November 1, 2003... Two new Arbus books. Review of Diane Arbus: Revelations. Random House, 2003. Anthony Lee and John Pultz. Diane Arbus: Family Albums. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. Until recently New York photographer...

FIAC: Paris.
November 1, 2003... International Contemporary Art Fair Paris Expo Porte de Versailles October 9-13, 2003 The 30th annual FIAC exposition that opened in Paris on October 9th for four days presented a visual history of European and American...

Books noted.
November 1, 2003... Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation by Joan Copjec The MIT Press/261 pp./$29.95 (hb). Joan Copjec's latest book takes its beginnings from Jacques Lacan's infamous proposition regarding female sexuality: "the Woman does...

Books received.
November 1, 2003... 101 Salvations: For The Love of Dogs, by Rachael Hale. Bullfinch Press/101 pp./$24.95 (hb). Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion, by Phillipe-Alain Michaud. Zone Books/395 pp./$33 (hb). Advanced Screenwriting: Raising Your Script to the...

Notes from the field.(News)
November 1, 2003... Famed director and screenwriter Philip Kaufman was named George Eastman Honorary Scholar on September 27. Bestowed by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the title places Kaufman in the company of such...

Exhibitions.(art exhibitions calendar)(Calendar)
November 1, 2003... ALABAMA Huntsville: Huntsville Museum of Art, 300 Church Street. My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation. Through Jan. 4, 2004. (256) 535-4350 / www.hsvmuseum.org. ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum...

Events.(art exhibitions, seminars and meetings)(Calendar)
November 1, 2003... CALIFORNIA Event: Langdon Arts presents their 19th annual art auction Night Moves, a weeklong fundraising event including works by John Baldessari, Anna Gaskell and Gary Hill. Previews begin December 6. Contact New Langton Arts at 1246...

Etc ...(Notices)
November 1, 2003... Exhibition available: Galleries and libraries are being sought to host WSW XX Years, an exhibition of over 80 artists' books published by Women's Studio Workshop. For more information contact Tatana Kellner, WSW, P.O. Box 489, Rosendale, NY...

New life: for Visual Studies Workshop Research Center.(Interview with Andrew Eskind)(Interview)
November 1, 2003... An Interview with Andrew Eskind by Joanna Heatwole, October, 2003 Andrew Eskind is best known in the photographic archives community as the editor of successive editions of Index to Photographic Collections (GK Hall 1990, 1995, 1999)....