Afterimage articles from September 2003

Afterimage archives from September 2003

Notes from the field.(News)
September 1, 2003... Ann Fessler of Rhode Island School of Design, has been named a fellow by the Radcliffe Institute for 2003. A visual artist, she is one of 56 scientists, scholars, artists and writers to be selected for the 2003 honor. The Radcliffe Institute of...

Cole Weston, 1919-2003.(Obituaries)
September 1, 2003... Edward Weston's fourth son, Cole, died April 20, 2003, at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. He was 84. Born in Los Angeles, Cole Weston received his first camera from his eldest brother Brett in 1935. He then graduated with a...

Rene-Jacques, 1908-2003.(Obituaries)
September 1, 2003... French photographer Rene-Jacques died on July 6, 2003, at the age of 95. Born in Pnhom Penh in 1908, he moved to Paris and started to work there in 1924. He documented the social problems of the 1930s, and then worked for architects as...

Editorial.
September 1, 2003... Summer is traditionally a period of vacations and festivals. It is a time to resume projects left aside, time to go out and see, listen, travel. On the international scene the festival season starts in late Spring and lingers until early Fall....

Be Good, Smile Pretty: filmmaker interview with Tracy Droz Tragos.(Feature)
September 1, 2003... Interview conducted by phone July 22, 2003 with Tracy Droz Tragos, at her home office in Los Angeles, California. "Be Good, Smile Pretty is a first-person documentary that tells the story of one daughter's struggle to know and grieve for...

The Trauerspiel in the age of its Global Reproducibility: Boaz Arad's Hitler Videos.(Feature)
September 1, 2003... Given the complete disenchantment of the world, art that is beyond the alternative of lightheartedness and seriousness may be as much a cipher of reconciliation as a cipher of horror. --Theodor W. Adorno The playfully serious and...

Visual Poetics: Art and the Word.
September 1, 2003... Miami Art Museum, April 25 - November 16, 2003 There is an interesting poetic speculation that "language is a 'cumulative project' of the species, comparable to animal husbandry." (1) If you want to witness the sharp visual turn this...

Reviews.
September 1, 2003... BOOKS / CATALOGS (dis)locations, works by Dennis Del Favero, Agnes Hegedus, Ian Howard, Susan Norrie, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel; Essays by Lev Manovich, Anna Munster, Peter Weibel. 30:2, p. 16. Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist...

Mario DeBiasi: reading.
September 1, 2003... An exhibition curated by Maria Cristina Didero In collaboration with the 7th International Festival of Literature, Mantua Isabella diEste Apartments, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy September 3rd - September 28th, 2003 Exhibition...

After 9/11.
September 1, 2003... After 9/11 by Nathan Lyons Yale University Press, 2003/176 pp. In his new book, After 9/11, veteran photographer (and this journal's founding father) Nathan Lyons turns his camera to the expressive visual outpouring made by Americans...

Rivages.
September 1, 2003... Rivages by Harry Gruyaert Textuel (Paris), 2003/104 pp. 43 (10"x15") color illus.)/$65. Harry Gruyaert is to 35 mm color photography what Robert Frank is to black and white. Since he saw John Szarkowski's Eggleston show at MoMA in 1976, he...

Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Man, the Image, & the World.
September 1, 2003... Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Man, the Image, & the World by Robert Delpire Thames and Hudson, 2003/432 pp./$75 (hb). On August 22, 2003, Henri Cartier-Bresson celebrated his 95th birthday. Instigated by his long-time friend, curator and...

Books received.
September 1, 2003... Absolute Idealism, by Lance Banbury. Self-Published/30 pp. Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, by E. Patricia Johnson, Duke University Press/365 pp./$79.95 (hb), $22.95 (sb). Astronaut, by Steven...

Fest 2003.(News)
September 1, 2003... Goodbye Lenin won the hearts of the critics at the International Film Festival FEST 2003. The fall of the Berlin Wall must have brought relief to some and confusion to others. German critics all agree: Goodbye Lenin is the first good film made...

Exhibitions.(Notices)
September 1, 2003... ALABAMA Huntsville: Huntsville Museum of Art, 300 Church Street. My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation. Oct. 12 - Jan. 4, 2004. (256) 535-4350 / www.hsvmuseum.org. Mobile: Mobile Museum of Art, 4850 Museum...

Events.(Notices)
September 1, 2003... CALIFORNIA Event: Art Methods and Materials Show 2003, primarily for painters, also offers workshops in creativity, digital imagemaking, image and emulsion transfer, mat cutting, portfolio presentation, marketing artwork, website...

Etc ...(Notices)
September 1, 2003... Exhibition available: Galleries and libraries are being sought to host WSW XX Years, an exhibition of over 80 artists' books published by Women's Studio Workshop. For more information contact Tatana Kellner, WSW, P.O. Box 489, Rosendale, NY...

Photographs concerning: globalization, Photography, and the People's Republic of China.(Portfolio)
September 1, 2003... It is commonly known that incredible changes are well underway in the world's most populous nation. Traditions are rapidly being altered, the culture is continually responding to such pressures. It may also be obvious yet nonetheless important...