Afterimage articles from November 2007

Afterimage archives from November 2007

Photography and the archive.
November 1, 2007... This issue is devoted to photography and the archive, a topic that has been of particular interest since the 1980s when commentators began to analyze the dynamic between institutionalized power and the photograph. Chief among these theorists of...

The archaeology of photography: rereading Michel Foucault and the archaeology of knowledge.
November 1, 2007... The French historian of discourse, Michel Foucault, made a clear distinction between the "archive" and the method that he describes as archaeological. While this method does not require a trowel to dig through the earth, the metaphor of digging...

Boxed up: time capsules, archives, and magazines.(High Performance)
November 1, 2007... A recent story from Tulsa, Oklahoma, reported on a "ruined" time capsule built in 1957. The capsule was opened this year during Oklahoma's Centennial celebrations, but it had leaked and the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere inside had been pickled for...

F for filing system: an interview with AA Bronson.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... The artists' magazine FILE, which published between 1972 and 1989, was founded in Toronto and edited by AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal (known collectively as General Idea). Styled after LIFE magazine, FILE (like its namesake it...

The black box of the occupation revisited: photography, responsibility, and the Israeli occupation.
November 1, 2007... This article considers two exhibitions organized by Israeli writer Ariella Azoulay (1), "Everything Could Be Seen," held at the Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery in 2004 and "Act of State: 1967-2007 [An historical exhibition]," held at the Minshar Art...

Found in the UK's national collection of the art of photography.
November 1, 2007... Even so, it is clear that one does not collect paintings by Old Masters in the same spirit that one collects cigar bands. --"The System of Collecting," Jean Baudrillard Thirty years ago, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London set in...

Post-postmodernism and the archive: uncertain identities and "forgotten" legacies.
November 1, 2007... THE DISCOVERY Early in 2005, a dramatic discovery was made in the attic and basement of a home in Southern California. It was the complete archive of a photographer apparently active in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. A battery of...

God Bless this Circuitry.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... This portfolio is one of twelve fictional episodes involving a churchgoing father and son. Each part of the story is assembled out of the memory or use of a machine they have in common. The artists' book of the same name gets its title from the...

Caught: on camera.
November 1, 2007... CAUGHT BY JOACHIM SCHMID [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

The streets of San Francisco: encounters with the Selle collection of street vendor photographs.(Joseph Selle )
November 1, 2007... We frequently come to know archives through the weight of their sheer number in mass, which quantifies and qualifies their origins, ability, and options for future interpretation. These cumulative possibilities normally make up an archive's...

Emanation and return: archive as liberator.
November 1, 2007... The origin of the word archive is located in the public domain and possesses a secular significance, most often referring to documents sequestered in a particular repository, the Greek arkheion. In a lecture delivered in London on June 5, 1994,...

Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums, by Barbara Levine and Kirsten M. Jensen. Princeton Architectural Press/208pp./$55.00 (hb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Around the World showcases photo albums from about 1880 to 1930 that...

The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978, by Sarah Greenough & Diane Waggonerr. Sarah Kennel and Matthew S. Witkovsky. National Gallery of Art and Princeton University Press/294 pp./$55.00 (hb). Full of deceptive moments, tableaus, and...

Joachim Schmid Photoworks 1982-2007.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Joachim Schmid: Photoworks 1982-2007, edited by Gordon MacDonald and John S Weber. Photoworks/Steidl/Tang Museum/288pp./$55.00 (hb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This heavy, beautifully produced book situates itself as a blend of exhibition...

Notices.(art exhibitions)(Directory)
November 1, 2007... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7374 E. 2nd St. Lyle Ashton Harris. Feb. 8-May 27. www.sccarts.org. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography. University of Arizona, 1030 N. Olive Rd. Making a...