Afterimage articles from September 2001

Afterimage archives from September 2001

NOTES FROM THE FIELD.
September 1, 2001... The J. Paul Getty Museum has announced an important gift of 256 Brett Weston photographs. Weston (1911-93), the son of Edward Weston, forged his own photographic career after starting off as an apprentice to his father in Santa Monica during...

ERIK BARNOUW, 1908-2001.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 1, 2001... On July 19, Erik Barnouw died his home in Vermont, with his wife Betty at his side. Erik had an inoperable cancer and had been in hospice. Betty says he was ready for life's next adventure. He was 93. Erik was a legendary, foundational...

MEDIA MECCA.(University Film and Video Association conference)
September 1, 2001... This years University Film and Video Association (UFVA) Conference, co-hosted by Rochester institute of Technology (RIT) and Kodak, kicked off with an entertaining talk by George Spiro Dibie, President of the International Cinematographer's...

NEW TERRAIN.(historical overview of landscape painting)(Illustration)
September 1, 2001... The title of Richard Baron's 1997 landscape 100 Years reflects the timeless, ethereal quality of the image. The rising full moon and twilight atmosphere speak of the tranquility of a natural world far away from the machinery and complication of...

GIVING AND WITHHOLDING.(video artist Rachel Lowe)(Interview)
September 1, 2001... The Projection Art of Rachel Lowe Rachel Lowe has become known as a "video artist." But the ascription is too restrictive. It fails to register the diversity of projective modes her work deploys or the critical tension the terms "artist"...

ROLL OVER.(analysis of snapshot photography, photos of everyday life not initially produced as art)
September 1, 2001... The Snapshot's Museum Afterlife A diver's suspended body defines the topmost edge of a soft sepia-gray sky. In a fraction of a second, he will plunge toward the sea below. The blurred figure of a soldier crumples as though hit by enemy...

Crossing the Oxus.(destruction of Aral Sea in Uzbekistan)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... I must have seen it from the air, as I flew in from Moscow, but I don't remember it. We were flying over the desert and the bare, scrubby land was beautiful and strange when seen from above. Long streams of dust billowed off the purple and...

CITIZEN MICHEAUX.(Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: AfricanAmerican Flimmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, Writing Himself Into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences, Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: AfricanAmerican Flimmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era edited by Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines and Charles Musser Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001 384 pp./$44.95 (hb) Writing Himself...

EAST GOES WEST.(China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic)(Review)
September 1, 2001... China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic essay by Rae Yang New York: Aperture 204 pp./$50.O0 (hb) China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic Asia Society New York City, New York October 7, 1999-January 2,...

DOLL INHABITATION.(Darlene Kaczmarczyk photo exhibit)
September 1, 2001... Darlene Kaczmarczyk: Standards/Deviations Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts Grand Rapids, Michigan May 18-June 29, 2001 He himself was a believer; he affirmed the miracle of translation-the near sacred moment in which the...

Nikki S. Lee Projects.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Photographs by Nikki S. Lee (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2001) This first monograph on the works of New York-based photographer Nikki S. Lee, whose snapshot portrayals featuring herself as a member of various groups ranging...

Digital Book Design and Publishing.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Douglas Holleley - www.clarellen.com (Elmira Heights, NY: Clarellen, 2001) (Rochester, NY: Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2001) As computers went from wooden housing to plastic casing and eventually acquired a place on the desktop, they...

Unter der Haut--Under the Skin.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Biological Transformations in Contemporary Art Edited by Renate Heidt Heller (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2001) A bilingual (English and German) catalog, Under the Skin accompanies the recent exhibition at the Lehmbruck...

Tacita Dean.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Tacita Dean (Barcelona, Spain: MACBA, 2000) (Barcelona, Spain: Actar, 2000) Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Tacita Dean" held at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona from January 26 to March 25, 2001, this book...

Representation and Photography.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... A Screen Education Reader Edited by Manuel Alvarado, Edward Buscombe and Richard Collins (New York: Palgrave, 2001) In these new media saturated times, it appears that the still photographic image is vulnerable to the future (despite its...

Hold Still-Keep Going.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Photographs by Robert Frank Edited by Ute Eskildsen (Zurich, Switzerland: Scalo Verlag, 2001) A lavish exhibition catalog of Robert Frank's "Hold Still--Keep Going," this monograph combines three essays and an interview with 70 plates...

Keyframes.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies Edited by Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo (New York: Routledge, 2001) Another anthology on popular film and culture, Keyframes presents the reader with 21 essays spanning such topical films as the Alien...

Multimedia.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... From Wagner to Virtual Reality Edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001) Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality is an edited anthology that outlines the engineering efforts and interactive terminals that...