Afterimage articles from September 1997

Afterimage archives from September 1997

The human land dialectic: anthropic landscapes of the center for Land Use Interpretation.
September 1, 1997... [F]or the Land itself knows nothing, except that which we impress upon it. - Damon Farragut(1) While gaining public attention through recent exhibitions of "anthropic" or human-made landscapes, the Center fur Land Use interpretation (CLUI)...

The Quays' Institute Benjamenta: an olfactory view. (feature film)
September 1, 1997... In liquid slow motion, a bullet moves through a dense pine forest, curving impossibly through the syrupy air, until it finally lodges in a pine cone. In a flea's-eye-view, a gigantic length of thread snakes through the tiny needle hole in a...

Monstrous mothers: media representations of post-menopausal pregnancy.
September 1, 1997... In recent coverage of post-menopausal women whose bodies have gestated a fetus to term, the media has played an important role in determining how we come to understand something as seemingly "natural" for women as pregnancy when it occurs in the...

Nature as an icon of urban resistance: artists, gentrification and New York City's Lower East Side, 1979-1984. (social conditions depicted in art)
September 1, 1997... The state of this Lower East Side of New York City provides pictures for painters, operas for actors and poets from urban shambles of a slum where monstrous inequity is met with savagery, a nearly perfect specimen of malignant city life . . . yet...

Back West: reviewing American landscape photography.
September 1, 1997... "The West to me is where the landscape is," Lee Friedlander writes in his new book of landscape photographs of the Sonora, The Desert Seen.(1) The sentiment is so characteristically American that it is difficult not to take it ironically, coming...

Concrete Jungle.
September 1, 1997... Growing up in Chicago, I experienced only the most negative associations with nature. My first encounter with an opossum came when I was standing on the commuter rail platform and whiffed the tell-tale aroma of rotting flesh. I looked up and saw...

Longing and Belonging: The Faraway to Nearby.
September 1, 1997... Published in 1996 by SITE Santa Fe, Longing and Belonging: The Faraway to Nearby documents an event that focused on the phenomenological relationship between people and their environment. The book includes a portfolio of color photographs...