Afterimage articles from November 2004

Afterimage archives from November 2004

Eddie Adams: 1933-2004.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
November 1, 2004... Most known for his controversial image of a Viet Cong prisoner being executed for the press on a street in Saigon, Eddie Adams died in Manhattan on September 19, 2004 from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease at the age of 71. Born on...

Richard Avedon: 1923-2004.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
November 1, 2004... "As long as people remain curious about life in the twentieth century, they will turn to Avedon's photographs to see how it looked, and what it meant". --Adam Gopnik. The New Yorker, October 11, 2004, p65. Following a 60-year career,...

Van Deren Coke: 1921-2004.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
November 1, 2004... Van Deren Coke, highly acclaimed photographer, author, curator, and teacher, died July 11, 2004 in Albuquerque, New Mexico Coke studied history and art history at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, his hometown. He earned an MA in art...

Jacques Derrida: 1930-2004.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
November 1, 2004... Born July 15, 1930 in El Biar, outside Algiers in what was then known as "French Algeria", Jaques Derrida died October 9, 2004. The lives of some human beings can be traced back to concepts that they defined more aptly than others, as...

Helen Gee: 1910-2004.(OBITUARIES)(Obituary)
November 1, 2004... Helen Gee, a pioneer in sales of photos as art, died at age 85 in a hospice in Manhattan on Oct. 14, 2004. In the 1950s, Helen Gee's Limelight Photography Gallery in Greenwich Village became a pioneering blueprint for the offering and selling...

Editorial.(Editorial)
November 1, 2004... Two things should be remembered out of the elapsed year in the technology-based visual arts. One is the coining of a new term, reflecting a shift in preoccupations and practices in the art world: "Conceptual Documentary." The second one is the...

Yakutia, Siberia of Siberia.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... YAKUTIA, SIBERIA OF SIBERIA By Andreas Horvath. Bern: Benteli. 160pp. (hb) This book by photographer and film-maker Andreas Horvath consists of black and white photographs in travelog form, in a tradition illustrated by Robert Frank...

Nomads, tourists and territories: Manifesta and the Basque country.
November 1, 2004... The fifth installment of Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, took place this year in the Basque country under the direction of curators Massimiliano Gioni and Marta Kuzma. The exhibition was staged across two very different...

Floating world.(gallery)
November 1, 2004... For the last several years, I have accompanied my mother on cruises on a six-star luxury line. Populated largely by society's elite, captains of industry, I have found myself in a world largely unfamiliar to me, the world well beyond the...

A Texas trilogy: seven years in East Jesus.
November 1, 2004... Everything is bigger in Texas. The chili is hotter, the beer is colder, and the stars are brighter. In fact, as a travel ad campaign informed us a few years back. Texas is really like 'a whole other country'. President George W. Bush not only...

Notes from the field.
November 1, 2004... First European Month of Photography. On its 13th anniversary the Paris Month of Photography, a biennial celebration of photography that began in 1980, extends to two new European capitals: Berlin and Vienna. More will be added in two years....

Deja Vu; The feeling that we've all been here before on Deja Vu: aberrations on cultural memory.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... DEJA VU THE FEELING THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN HERE BEFORE ON DEJA VU: ABERRATIONS ON CULTURAL MEMORY By Peter Krapp Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2004 218 pages $59.95 (hb) $19.95 (sb) ...

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... A few questions and responses reached us after the publication of the cover of Volume 32 #1 (July/August 2004). One was from a former editor of Afterimage who expressed her surprise but declined to comment in writing on what motivated it....

The Company of Strangers.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS PHOTOGRAPHS BY GUS POWERLL ATLANTA: J & L BOOKS, 2004. 99PP./ $25 (HB) After reading Frank O'Hara's book of poems titled Lunch Poems, Gus Powell who worked in a, midtown Manhattan office, took to the...

Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... SHOMEI TOMATSU: THE SKIN OF THE NATION BY LEO RUBINFIEN, SANDRA S. PHILLIPS, & JOHN W. DOWER NEW HAVEN & LONDON: SAN FRANCISCO MOMA AND YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004/223PP./$45 (HB) This book is the catalogue of the retrospective...

Third Views: Second Sights.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... THIRD VIEWS: SECOND SIGHTS A PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF THE AMERICAN WEST PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN GANIS, POEMS BY DR. STANLEY DIAMOND, INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT SOBIESLKI, AFTERWARD BY GEORGE F. THOMPSON, STOCKPORT (ENGLAND): DEWI LEWIS...

Books received.(Bibliography)
November 1, 2004... Amsterdam Medical Center Art Book, edited by Sabrina Kamstra, et al... Amsterdam University Press/208pp./$47.50 (sb). Andreas Gursky: Photographs From 1984 to the Present, Marie Louise Syring, editor. Schirmer/Mosel/144pp./$150 (hb). ...

Notices.(Calendar)
November 1, 2004... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, Fine Arts Complex, University of Arizona, Corner Park and Speedway. JoAnn Callis: Cake Hat Pillow. Through Nov. 28. (520) 621-7968 / www.creativephotography.org. ...