Afterimage articles from November 2006

Afterimage archives from November 2006

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... Dear Editor: Jill Conner states in "Mining The Beautiful" (Afterimage May/June 2006) that"... as war photography became the style that was able to incur the most money, some artists like W. Eugene Smith ventured to stage war scenes within...

State of photography.(Southern California )
November 1, 2006... Few, if any, unifying themes or styles can be attributed to photography in Southern California, or any other cosmopolitan center in the information age. Aided by the Internet and digital image-sharing, the spread of globalism in commerce is as...

Errata.(Correction notice)
November 1, 2006... Information received and incorporated as we went to press led to grammatical errors in Kalliopi Minoudaki's review of the video Product. The full, corrected text, as well as the streaming video, can be found on our Web site at...

Europa, europa.
November 1, 2006... PHOTO LONDON LONDON MAY 18-21, 2006 PHOTOESPANA MADRID JUNE 1-JULY 23, 2006 COORDINATION OF EUROPEAN PICTURE AGENCIES (CEPIC CONGRESS) BIARRITZ, FRANCE JUNE 6-10, 2006 DOKUMENT 06 AARHUS, DENMARK...

Anxious media.(Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, International Symposium on Electronic Art)(Conference news)
November 1, 2006... SCREEN STUDIES CONFERENCE GLASGOW, SCOTLAND JUNE 30-JULY 2, 2006 13[TM] INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC ART SPONSORED BY THE INTER-SOCIETY FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA AUGUST 5-13, 2006 ...

Mediated synergy.(Media Ecology Association, Action Coalition for Media Education)(Conference news)
November 1, 2006... MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION 7[TM] ANNUAL CONVENTION BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS JUNE 8-11, 2006 ACTION COALITION FOR MEDIA EDUCATION NATIONAL SUMMIT BURLINGTON, VERMONT OCTOBER 7-9, 2006 Two recent gatherings focusing on the...

The gelatin silver print in the digital age.
November 1, 2006... At the Silver International Conference and Competition held March 3-5, 2006, at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, the main question on everyone's mind was how the beloved gelatin silver print would survive the digital...

Sacred gestures: images from our holy war.(War on Terrorism)
November 1, 2006... Much has been written about the political significance of the Abu Ghraib photographs, their scandalous and undeniable revelation that the American war on terror has involved a widespread use of torture. Commentators Mark Danner, Seymour Hersh,...

There's no place like home: the paradox of embodiment in the work of Annette Barbier.
November 1, 2006... Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist. They... have forgotten the secret knowledge of their bodies, their senses, and their dreams. --First Nation leader Lame Deer (1) Chicago-based media...

The "Brecht effect": politics and American postwar art.(Bertolt Brecht, Fredric Jameson)(Essay)
November 1, 2006... In the mid-to late-1960s, the New Left grew increasingly critical of the passive consumerism and individualist complacency that defined the liberalist climate of postwar America. Activists and intellectuals aimed to bring about a culture of...

A barometer of our times.(Ecotopia, photo exhibition on environment)
November 1, 2006... ECOTOPIA: THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY TRIENNIAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY NEW YORK CITY SEPTEMBER 14, 2006-JANUARY 7, 2007 ECOTOPIA: THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF...

Reality TV.(Blake Gordon)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The idea for the Reality TV series materialized as I wrestled with continuing graduate school. I ended up leaving school to seek direct contact with the world and learn through experience. Often in my subsequent travels, I brought along an old...

A time for Dreaming.(Pierre Huyghe's Celebration Park)
November 1, 2006... PIERRE HUYGHE: CELEBRATION PARK TATE MODERN LONDON JULY 5-SEPTEMBER 17, 2006 Pierre Huyghe's latest exhibition, "Celebration Park," begins with an ironic disclaimer in wall-sized white neon light: "I Do Not Own Tate Modern or...

Meanings of translations.(Found in Translation: Art and Language in Global Culture, book arts exhibition)
November 1, 2006... FOUND IN TRANSLATION: ART AND LANGUAGE IN GLOBAL CULTURE SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR THE BOOK SAN FRANCISCO MAY 12-JULY 21, 2006 FOUND IN TRANSLATION: ART AND LANGUAGE IN GLOBAL CULTURE (EXHIBITION CATALOG) NEW...

Presence of absence.(Hadley Howes and Maxwell Stephens painting exhibitions)
November 1, 2006... HADLEY HOWES AND MAXWELL STEPHENS: DELETED SCENES CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY VANCOUVER, CANADA MARCH 31-MAY 28, 2006 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What is absence or emptiness, and what form does it take when it is described...

Eye on Mexico.(John Spence Weir: Surreal Spaces)
November 1, 2006... JOHN SPENCE WEIR: SURREAL SPACES ART GALLERY AT DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE PLEASANT HILL, CALIFORNIA AUGUST 3-SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 John Spence Weir's intense love of Mexico began in 1958 when he went to Chihuahua to bury his mother...

Life of the veil.(Perfect Intimacy, photo exhibition)
November 1, 2006... LILI ALMOG: PERFECT INTIMACY ANDREA MEISLIN GALLERY NEW YORK CITY MAY 13-JUNE 30, 2006 Lili Almog's debut exhibition, "Perfect Intimacy," immediately evinces the artist's ability to capture the effervescent qualities of...

Searing memories.(Hollis Frampton: (Nostalgia))(Book review)
November 1, 2006... HOLLIS FRAMPTON: (NOSTALGIA) BY RACHEL MOORE LONDON: AFTERALL BOOKS, 2006 88 PP./$16.00 (SB) Rachel Moore's continuous narrative, Hollis Frampton: (nostalgia), revives the life and work of an artist who slipped into obscurity...

MP3 Chicago-style.(Midwest Photographers Project )
November 1, 2006... MP3: MIDWEST PHOTOGRAPHERS PUBLICATION PROJECT INDIVIDUAL TITLES BY KELLI CONNELL, JUSTIN NEWHALL, AND BRIAN ULRICH NEW YORK: APERTURE/MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, 2006 56 PP./$30.00 (HB WITH SLIPCASE) The Museum of...

Grounding Internet theory.(Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... WHO CONTROLS THE INTERNET?: ILLUSIONS OF A BORDERLESS WORLD BY JACK GOLDSMITH AND TIM WU OXFORD AND NEW YORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2006 226 PP./$28.00 (HB) Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World...

Eggleston on film.(By The Ways: A Journey With William Eggleston)(William Eggleston in the Real World )(Movie review)
November 1, 2006... BY THE WAYS: A JOURNEY WITH WILLIAM EGGLESTON BY VINCENT GERARD AND CEDRIC LATY 85 MINUTES, 2005 WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL WORLD BY MICHAEL ALMEREYDA 86 MINUTES, 2005 Art... You can love it and appreciate it,...

Media noted and received.
November 1, 2006... The 3rd Act, by Drew Yanno. Continuum/192 pp./$14.95 (sb). About Stephen Bann, edited by Deborah Cherry. Blackwell Publishing/208 pp./$29.95 (sb). Aesthetic Computing, edited by Paul A. Fishwick. MIT Press/457 pp./$42.50 (hb). ...

Notices.(Public notice)
November 1, 2006... EXHIBITIONS ALABAMA Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2000 8th Ave. N. William Christenberry Photographs: 1961-2005. Through Dec. 24. www.artsbma.org. ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd...