Afterimage articles from September 2005

Afterimage archives from September 2005

Peter Turner: 1947-2005.(news)(Obituary)
September 1, 2005... As a staunch advocate of photography, Peter Turner played many roles--curator, lecturer, critic, committee activist, lobbyist--but he may be best remembered as the longest-serving editor of Creative Camera (1969-78 and 1986-91). The bare...

Timo Tauno Pajunen: 1945-2005.(news)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 1, 2005... Timo Tauno Pajunen died of heart failure on June 27, 2005 at Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California, of heart failure. A native of Helsinki, Finland, Pajunen emigrated to the United States in 1949 with his family and grew up in the...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2005... In Stephen Longmire's article "Double Take's Downfall" in the May/June 2005 issue of Afterimage (Volume 32, no. 6), it was stated that the publication had not paid taxes in four years. As a non-profit, Double Take was not required to pay taxes...

Peter Pfersick: 1942-2005.(news)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 1, 2005... Peter Pfersick died on April 12, 2005 in Oakland, California of cancer. Pfersick was the founder and proprietor of the Looking Glass Photographic Arts store in Berkeley, California, where from 1971 to 2000 he created a sense of community for...

Robert Sobieszek: a remembrance.(news)(Obituary)
September 1, 2005... Just about a year ago I picked up the phone to hear a familiar voice calling from Los Angeles: "John, I'm following in your footsteps...." It was Robert and I couldn't immediately think of an instance in which I had ever preceded him. He was...

No Strings Foundation debuts.(news)
September 1, 2005... Photographers and photography collectors can take heart in a positive new funding development--the debut in March 2005 of the No Strings Foundation, based in Los Angeles, California. The private foundation is headed by Tim Wride, former...

Is community TV in jeopardy?(news)
September 1, 2005... This September the United States Senate and House of Representatives will vote on legislation that could jeopardize the future of Public, Educational and Government (PEG) television. If passed House Bill H.R.3146 and Senate Bills S.1349 and...

Syracuse University announced an inaugural class of 16 students in its Goldring Arts Journalism Program.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Syracuse University announced an inaugural class of 16 students in its Goldring Arts Journalism Program, the first Master's-level degree program in arts journalism at an accredited journalism school. Directed by arts journalist and S.I....

The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has announced the winners of the 15th Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has announced the winners of the 15th Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. Photographer Peter Brown and writer Kent Haruf were awarded the $10,000 prize for their project "High Plains." The...

The Pew Fellowships in the Arts has awarded 13 Philadelphia artists.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The Pew Fellowships in the Arts has awarded 13 Philadelphia artists with Fellowships in the areas of fiction and creative nonfiction, media arts and works on paper. This year's recipients of $50,000 fellowships in the category of Media Arts are...

The University of Minnesota Department of Art and the McKnight Foundation have announced the 2005 McKnight Fellowships for Photographers.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The University of Minnesota Department of Art and the McKnight Foundation have announced the 2005 McKnight Fellowships for Photographers. Richard Copley, Todd Deutsch and Natasha D'Schommer, all of Minneapolis, and Meg Ojala of Dundas, were...

The 2005 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The 2005 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers has been awarded to emerging artist Lisa Kereszi. Her images of New York City explore notions of abandonment, isolation and emptiness. This award is given to a photographer who has not yet...

The George Eastman House (GEH) and the International Center of Photography (ICP) are teaming up to create a vast digital archive.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The George Eastman House (GEH) and the International Center of Photography (ICP) are teaming up to create a vast digital archive. According to the project's prototype web site (www.photomuse.org) the collaboration's goal is to provide an...

Renowned civil rights documentary Eyes on the Prize (1987) is receiving much needed funding for rebroadcast and DVD release.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Renowned civil rights documentary Eyes on the Prize (1987) is receiving much needed funding for rebroadcast and DVD release. Copyright and licensing obstructions have limited the availability of what the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) calls...

The Photographer's Gallery in London, UK has announced the appointment of Brett Rogers as its new Director.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The Photographer's Gallery in London, UK has announced the appointment of Brett Rogers as its new Director. Rogers held the joint roles of Deputy Director and Head of Exhibitions, Visual Arts at the Visual Arts Department of the British Council...

The San Francisco Art Institute has announced the appointment of Renee Green as Dean of Graduate Studies.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The San Francisco Art Institute has announced the appointment of Renee Green as Dean of Graduate Studies. For the past three years Green has been serving as Distinguished Artist/Professor in the Department of Art at the University of...

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City has announced the appointment of Suzanne Anker as the Chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City has announced the appointment of Suzanne Anker as the Chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department, replacing Jeanne Siegel, who held the position for 29 years. An internationally-exhibited visual...

The Neuberger Museum of Art at the State University of New York at Purchase has appointed Thom Collins as its new Director.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The Neuberger Museum of Art at the State University of New York at Purchase has appointed Thom Collins as its new Director. Collins, an art historian, author and art museum professional, most recently served as the Executive Director of the...

Robert Sobieszek, curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and former curator of the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY died at age 62.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 1, 2005... Robert Sobieszek, curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and former curator of the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY died at age 62 after a battle with cancer. During his 20 years at the Eastman House, he increased...

According to the American Association of Museums, a number of art museums in the Gulf Coast area have been affected by Hurricane Katrina.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... According to the American Association of Museums, a number of art museums in the Gulf Coast area have been affected by Hurricane Katrina. In a preliminary report The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Louisiana suffered minor to moderate...

The School of Art at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge is seeking donations of art supplies.(NOTES FROM THE FIELD)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The School of Art at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge is seeking donations of art supplies, especially drawing pads, sketchbooks, pencils, markers, watercolor sets, crayons, charcoal, printmaking supplies, sculpture tools,...

Education for a new millennium.(report)(national media education conferences)
September 1, 2005... NATIONAL MEDIA EDUCATION CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA JUNE 25-28, 2005 The media literacy and education movement is growing rapidly in this country and abroad and the most recent edition of the biannual National Media...

Viva Madrid.(report)
September 1, 2005... PHOTOESPANA MADRID, SPAIN JUNE 1-JULY 17, 2005 Ciudad (city) was the theme of the third edition of PHotoEspana (PHES), which took place June 1-July 17, 2005. More than 40 exhibitions offered a remarkable multiplicity of artistic...

Arles flying high.(report)
September 1, 2005... 36TH RENCONTRES D'ARLES 2005 ARLES, FRANCE JULY 5-SEPTEMBER 18, 2005 This summer's 36th edition of Rencontres d'Arles offers an open program centered around a celebration of Brazilian photography. Since 1969 the Arles festival has...

Beyond CNN.(Asian media information and communications conference)
September 1, 2005... ASIAN MEDIA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE BEIJING, CHINA JULY 18-21, 2005 The Motion Picture Association and the entertainment industry in general portray a singular image of Asia as a place of piracy where copy...

Out of the west.(report)
September 1, 2005... GALWAY FILM FLEADH GALWAY, IRELAND JULY 5-10, 2005 Celebrating its 17th anniversary, this year's Galway Film Fleadh was an energetic event held in two main venues in the bustling (and rapidly modernizing) medieval city on the west...

CCA Warsaw beyond ruins.(Centre for Contemporary Art, services)
September 1, 2005... For the past 16 years, the non-profit Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Warsaw, Poland has been forging a unique niche among the world's arts spaces through the exhibition and creation of contemporary art forms. Housed in the re-purposed...

Lukasz Ronduda: curator of the Archive of Polish Experimental Film.(portrait)(Interview)
September 1, 2005... During a visit to the CCA in May 2005 I spoke with Lukasz Ronduda about the work of the archive in relation to Poland's unique historical and cultural development in film and video, in both amateur and formal art practice. [ILLUSTRATION...

Electro-fying the Midwest.(Text of Light performs in Missouri)
September 1, 2005... On July 23, 2005 Text of Light, a rotating ensemble of musicians that improvise while simultaneously projecting films by Stan Brakhage, performed in Kansas City, Missouri. The music is not meant to be a score--Text of Light is more focused on...

Meaning, memory and misogyny: LIFE photographer Hansel Mieth's monkey portrait.(feature)
September 1, 2005... German emigre photographer Hansel Mieth (1909-98) vividly documented pivotal cultural events of twentieth-century America. As an amateur photographer during the Great Depression, she recorded her life working alongside itinerant farm workers...

More of what it is: catching up with Chris Marker.(feature)
September 1, 2005... Marker has overcome death by prayer. --Anonymous comment in Tokyo film program It may be that the present has finally caught up with the pseudonymous Chris Marker (aka Chris Villeneuve, Fritz Markassian, Sandor Krasna, Jacopo Berenzi,...

People I don't know.(photography)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... I continue to be fascinated with found photographs. For 25 years, I have collected photographs found on the ground. Recently I have been drawn to more formal portraits culled from dusty cardboard boxes in thrift stores or ratty suitcases at...

The ethic of the spectator: the citizenry of photography.
September 1, 2005... THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD AS A PICTURE Shortly after photography's appearance, the process of "conquering the world as a picture" (1) commenced. In this era, photography became a prime mediator in the social and political relations among...

Plato's cave.(Baltimore Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Center)(art exhibitions)
September 1, 2005... SLIDESHOW BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART BALTIMORE, MARYLAND FEBRUARY 27-MAY 15, 2005 THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER CINCINATTI, OHIO JULY 2-SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still...

Stunning simplicity.(celebrating Abbas Kiarostami's film direction work)
September 1, 2005... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: VISIONS OF THE ARTIST Victoria & Albert Museum London, United Kingdom April 27-June 19, 2005 Ever since the New Iranian Cinema attained critical acclaim on the international film festival circuit in the...

Seeing is believing.(Frye Art Museum's exhibition)
September 1, 2005... OLIVER HERRING: TAKING AND MAKING FRYE ART MUSEUM SEATTLE, WASHINGTON JUNE 4-SEPTEMBER 18, 2005 In the most general terms, photography and sculpture describes and delineates dimensional representation, but the work of Oliver...

Electronic wizardry.(Los Angeles County Museum of Art )
September 1, 2005... TIM HAWKINSON WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART NEW YORK, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 11-MAY 29, 2005 LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA JUNE 23-AUGUST 28, 2005 Tim Hawkinson's work combines low-tech...

Inmate intimacy.
September 1, 2005... FIONA TAN: CORRECTION UCLA Hammer Museum Los Angeles, California June 25-October 16, 2005 New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, New York April 9-June 4, 2005 Making art in a prison, with inmate involvement,...

Hiding in front of a camera.(Photo-Respiration: Tokihiro Sato Photographs)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... PHOTO-RESPIRATION: TOKIHIRO SATO PHOTOGRAPHS ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS JANUARY 5-MAY 8, 2005 Photo-Respiration: Tokihiro Sato Photographs EDITED BY ELIZABETH SIEGEL CHICAGO: ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO...

Book spaces city spaces.(Berlin In The Time Of The Wall)(Flicker)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... BERLIN IN THE TIME OF THE WALL BY JOHN GOSSAGE BETHESDA, MD: LOOSESTRIFE EDITIONS, 2004 37 PP./$25.00 (HB) FLICKER BY EMILY MCVARISH SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK: GRANARY, 2005 48 PP./$975.00 (HB) Few artists'...

First day of remorse.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... VANISHING BY ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL NEW YORK: DE.MO, 2005 240. PP./$54.00 (HB) Vanishing, a new book by Antonin Kratochvil, provides a unique compilation of images by a photographer who is distinguished by his great sensitivity...

100 American Independent Films.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... 100 AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILMS by Jason Wood. BFI Publishing/263 pp./[pounds sterling]13.99 (sb). In this pocket-sized guide, Jason Wood provides short plot summaries as well as technical information (such as production costs) about...

American Cockroach.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... AMERICAN COCKROACH photographs by and interview with Catherine Chalmers, essays by Steve Baker, Garry Marvin and Lyall Watson. Aperture/93 pp./$29.95 (hb). Following her provocative book Food Chain (2002), Catherine Chalmers introduces...

Media received.(noted)
September 1, 2005... 10 Years 100 Artists: Art In a Democratic South Africa, edited by Sophie Perryer. Bell-Roberts/447 pp./$59.95 (hb). AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Man, edited by Lee Gilmore and Mark Van Proyen. University of New Mexico Press/232...

Deep South.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... DEEP SOUTH photographs and essays by Sally Mann. Bullfinch/117 pp./$60.00 (hb). Deep South, Sally Mann's latest monograph, is a collection of southern landscapes photographed since 1992. This beautifully printed book contains 65...

Fear This: A Nation at War.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... FEAR THIS: A NATION AT WAR by Anthony Suau. Aperture/186 pp./$25.00 (hb). Known for his photographs of international war zones (including a 1996 Robert Capa Gold Medal for his images of Chechnya), Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist...

Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database.(MEDIA NOTED)(Video Recording Review)
September 1, 2005... SOFT CINEMA: NAVIGATING THE DATABASE by Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky. MIT Press/$30.00 (DVD with 40-page booklet). In 2001, MIT Press released Lev Manovich's The Language of New Media, a groundbreaking book in the field of "New...

Yours in Food, John Baldessari.(MEDIA NOTED)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... YOURS IN FOOD, JOHN BALDESSARI by John Baldessari. Princeton Architectural Press/139 pp./$25.00 (hb). The conceptual artist John Baldessari has brought together this collection of writings that focus on food and the many ways in which...

Notices.(Calendar)
September 1, 2005... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Pay Attention: Bruce Nauman Videos from the collection of Barbara Balkin Cottle and Robert Cottle. Private Pictures: Photography from Arizona...

Inklight.(personal stories, photography)
September 1, 2005... I knew I should've never hid in the museum, but I had heard the strangest of rumors, so I did it anyway. The guard was old and smelled like minty mothballs when I sniffed his backside collar. His eyes looked hazy so I knew he would not see me...