Afterimage articles from September 1995

Afterimage archives from September 1995

Dialing for dollars. (deregulation of the telecommunications industry)
September 1, 1995... This summer Congress passed sweeping deregulatory telecommunications legislation that could shape the content, delivery and definition of "media" for years to come. In mid-June, The Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act (S. 652) - a...

Where there's smoke.... (cigarette companies sponsoring art exhibitions)
September 1, 1995... Between January 14 and June 4, the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) presented On the Edge: Australian Photographers of the Seventies, an exhibition of photographs on loan from the National Gallery of Australia (NGA). Unlike most exhibitions, there...

In the public interest. (1995 Alliance for Community Media International Conference and Trade Show)
September 1, 1995... Video dial tone, wireless communication systems, high-speed data streams, digital video, information networks: we are in the midst of a vast technological revolution. Rapid developments in the computer and telecommunication industries force us to...

Nouveau and improved. (The Montreal International Festival of Film, Video and and the New Technologies)
September 1, 1995... The Montreal International Festival of Film, Video and the New Technologies tends to get lost in the shadow of the larger Montreal World Film Festival that each year takes place two months later. That is a shame because its selection of work...

Here's looking at you. (41st Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar)
September 1, 1995... Since it was first organized by Flaherty's widow Frances over 40 years ago, the Robert Flaherty Seminar has offered participants a unique opportunity to view new visual works and discuss the processes, problems and politics of imagemaking. The...

The greatest show on earth. (street photography)
September 1, 1995... Yesterday was the 4th of July in New York City. I spent most of the day in Central Park, watching the parade, the flora and fauna of the most racially diversified city in the world. Those of us who live here accept that diversity; we accept the...

Listening to Avedon. (photographer Richard Avedon)
September 1, 1995... Looking at Richard Avedon's work is a lot like looking at the past. Even though he continues to photograph for the New Yorker (in one of the last weekly rituals of the photomechanical age), Avedon's style signifies a photographic time and...

Photography is another kind of bird.
September 1, 1995... Sometimes I envy dead white guys. Take the late nineteenth-century debate between English poet-critic Matthew Arnold and scientist Thomas Henry Huxley: should universities continue to vest students in western culture, or should they wake up to...

Invisible men: race, representation and exhibition(ism). (includes related article)
September 1, 1995... Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one...

Putting herself in the picture: autobiographical images of illness and the body.
September 1, 1995... Metaphoric and symbolic uses of the body often reflect particular ideologies and relations of power within a society. If the gallery exhibitions, art journals and social science literature in recent years are any indication, there is a widespread...

Facing history. (exhibitions of photographs depicting African-Americans before, during and after legalized slavery)
September 1, 1995... Any event, no matter how intimately or historically crucial, becomes an event only through its ability to be conveyed, recorded and remembered.(1) This simple truism is further complicated the more such events become difficult or traumatic. Even...