Afterimage articles from September 1996

Afterimage archives from September 1996

Video preservation: a report from the trenches.
September 1, 1996... It is safe to say that you will outlive your videotapes three or four times over. Ten years after the widespread use of home recorders, our video memories are beyond the fading of old Kodachromes; some are totally unplayable. Even before the mass...

The performance of everyday life: reflections on the photography of Graciela Iturbide.
September 1, 1996... I have always thought that a photographer is a stranger who doesn't want to be one."(1) For over 20 years Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide has been producing a most impressive and important body of work that represents indigenous...

Post-traumatic shock: Bill Viola's recent work.
September 1, 1996... When seeds are buried in the dark earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden. - Rumi Bill Viola's video installation series "Buried Secrets" (1995) is so disturbing that its images and associations still float into my...

Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: New Writings, 1973-1994.
September 1, 1996... When seeds are buried in the dark earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden. - Rumi Bill Viola's video installation series "Buried Secrets" (1995) is so disturbing that its images and associations still float into my...

Theater of the absurd. (photographic exhibition by Anna and Bernhard Blume at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Feb. 9-Apr. 21, 1996)
September 1, 1996... "Photo-Works" is the first major exhibition in the United States by German artists Anna and Bernhard Blume. Organized by Dean Sobel, curator of contemporary art, and Tom Bamberger, adjunct curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the exhibition at...

Anna and Bernhard Blume: Photo-Works.
September 1, 1996... "Photo-Works" is the first major exhibition in the United States by German artists Anna and Bernhard Blume. Organized by Dean Sobel, curator of contemporary art, and Tom Bamberger, adjunct curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the exhibition at...

Finding Art's Place: Experiments in Contemporary Education and Culture.
September 1, 1996... From cover to cover, chapter to chapter, Finding Art's Place celebrates Nicholas Paley's contempt for the stuffy didacticism of his discipline. Bound in an oblong format, Finding Art's Place resembles a journal of experimental art more than it...

Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video.
September 1, 1996... Much recent scholarship in film and photography can be understood as a move from aesthetics and its concern for "the physical properties of the media themselves" to cultural studies and its regard for "theories of representation." Two recent...

Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology and Photography.
September 1, 1996... Much recent scholarship in film and photography can be understood as a move from aesthetics and its concern for "the physical properties of the media themselves" to cultural studies and its regard for "theories of representation." Two recent...

Annette Messager.
September 1, 1996... Is there not still something held in reserve within the silence of female history; an energy, morphology, growth or blossoming still to come from the female realm? Such a flowering keeps the future open. The world remains uncertain in the fact of...

Our messenger. (Annette Messager)
September 1, 1996... Is there not still something held in reserve within the silence of female history; an energy, morphology, growth or blossoming still to come from the female realm? Such a flowering keeps the future open. The world remains uncertain in the fact of...