Afterimage articles from September 1998

Afterimage archives from September 1998

Special issues. (increasing number of special issues in art publications)
September 1, 1998... The special issue, by definition, is a rare and distinctive publication. But in art magazines, as in many cultural periodicals, the special issue is becoming more common. Throughout the art press the proportion of special to regular issues is on...

Distant witnessing. (remembering the Holocaust through photographs)
September 1, 1998... My seven-and-a-half-year-old son recently came home from school with his head filled with a jumble of fragments about current events and history. Friday afternoon is usually our time together to enjoy the feeling of expansiveness that the end of...

Blindness and insight: the civil rights movement in photographs and text. (photo exhibit and book)
September 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION I was already an adult at the advent of the Civil Rights Movement. Thus a certain sense of mid-twentieth-century history guides my analysis of how this combined book and exhibition project interprets the social issues of that era....

The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-1968.
September 1, 1998... By Steven Kasher foreword by Myrlie Evers-Williams New York: Abbeville Press, 1996 255 pp./$35.00 (hb) INTRODUCTION I was already an adult at the advent of the Civil Rights Movement. Thus a certain sense of mid-twentieth-century history...

History is photography: the afterimage of Walter Benjamin.
September 1, 1998... In a New York Times Book Review essay on Jay Parini's 1997 historical novel about the last days of Walter Benjamin, Benjamin's Crossing, the critic made annoyed reference to Benjamin's "leonine status in the eyes of many academics today" He...

Processing trauma: the media art of Daniel Reeves.
September 1, 1998... By Daniel Reeves Distributed by Video Data Bank The Hand That Holds Up All This Falling: The Works of Daniel Reeves October 7-December 14, 1998 Handwerker Gallery Ithaca College Ithaca, New York PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN Daniel Reeves, an...

Obsessive Becoming.
September 1, 1998... By Daniel Reeves Distributed by Video Data Bank The Hand That Holds Up All This Falling: The Works of Daniel Reeves October 7-December 14, 1998 Handwerker Gallery Ithaca College Ithaca, New York PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN Daniel Reeves, an...

Networking women. (books on the effect of technology on women)
September 1, 1998... ANGELA WALL I once asked my students - undergraduates at a prominent engineering school - to define how science, technology and culture are commonly understood in the United States. During the course of the discussion, one woman suggested that...

Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Jennifer Terry and Melodie Calvert New York: Routledge, 1997 235 pp./$65.00 (hb), $18.95 (sb) ANGELA WALL I once asked my students - undergraduates at a prominent engineering school - to define how science, technology and culture...

Wired_women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth Reba Weise Seattle, Washington: Seal Press, 1997 263 pp./$16.00 (sb) ANGELA WALL I once asked my students - undergraduates at a prominent engineering school - to define how science, technology and culture...

Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and Cyberspace.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Nina Lykke and Rosi Braidotti London: Zed Books, 1996 249 pp./$22.50 (sb) ANGELA WALL I once asked my students - undergraduates at a prominent engineering school - to define how science, technology and culture are commonly...

Brady's nation. (exhibit and book on Mathew Brady, known for 19th-century American photography)
September 1, 1998... PATRICIA JOHNSTON and JOANNE LUKITSH Mathew Brady is one of the best known names in nineteenth-century American photography, but his career is not simple to categorize. His name is no longer synonymous with Civil War photography, as the...

Mathew Brady and the Image of History.
September 1, 1998... By Mary Panzer with an essay by Jeana K. Foley Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997 232 pp./$50.00 (hb). PATRICIA JOHNSTON and JOANNE LUKITSH Mathew Brady is one of the best known names in nineteenth-century American photography, but his...

Guerrillas in our midst. (books on guerrilla video)
September 1, 1998... DEEDEE HALLECK That guerrilla video is now the subject of historical reflection is probably a sign of its demise. There has been a recent flurry of archival and publishing activity centering on experiments made in the '70s. In 1997, the...

Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited.
September 1, 1998... By Deirdre Boyle New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 224 pp./$39.95 (hb), $16.95 (sb) DEEDEE HALLECK That guerrilla video is now the subject of historical reflection is probably a sign of its demise. There has been a recent flurry of...

Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History.
September 1, 1998... By Ralph Engelman Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996 224 pp./$49.00 (hb), $20.00 (sb) DEEDEE HALLECK That guerrilla video is now the subject of historical reflection is probably a sign of its demise. There has been a recent flurry of...

Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935.
September 1, 1998... By Robert Waterman McChesney New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 416 pp./$19.95 (sb) DEEDEE HALLECK That guerrilla video is now the subject of historical reflection is probably a sign of its demise. There has been a recent flurry of...

Putting the Demo Back in Democracy: March Against the Moguls.
September 1, 1998... By Paper Tiger Television (two 30 minute programs) distributed by Paper Tiger Television DEEDEE HALLECK That guerrilla video is now the subject of historical reflection is probably a sign of its demise. There has been a recent flurry of...

Cut and paste. (books by Ross Martin presented in an unconventional manner)
September 1, 1998... KRISTY KRIVITSKY The ability of a book to convey meaning is, in part, due to its conformist structure. Formal conventions, like reading from left to right, turning pages in a sequential manner, and illustrating text with visual images are all...

Variations on a Theme.
September 1, 1998... By Ross Martin self published, 1997 distributed by Printed Matter, New York, NY unpaginated/$20.00 (sb) KRISTY KRIVITSKY The ability of a book to convey meaning is, in part, due to its conformist structure. Formal conventions, like reading...

Edifice Wrecks.
September 1, 1998... By Ross Martin self published, 1996 distributed by Printed Matter, New York, NY 165 pp./$12.00 (sb) KRISTY KRIVITSKY The ability of a book to convey meaning is, in part, due to its conformist structure. Formal conventions, like reading from...