Recently added articles from Afterimage:
Disarrayed symmetry.(Photograph)
May 01, 2009; ... My work touches upon the subject of how everyday society is busy producing, accumulating & discarding objects in our life. My images consist of an accumulation of shreds of material objects stuffed into the given space. I touch upon various issues of material accumulation in present ...
Sprawling out in Dallas.(Society for Photographic Education's conference )(Conference notes)
May 01, 2009 ... 46th annual SPE Conference Dallas March 26-29, 2009 The 46th annual Society for Photographic Education (SPE) conference took place at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Dallas, and while attendance may have seemed a bit thin, enthusiasm was high. Events began ...
Resistance and celebration.(Native American Film and Video Festival)
May 01, 2009 ... 2009 Native American Film and Video Festival Smithsonian/National Museum of the American Indian New York City March 26-29, 2009 In celebrating its thirtieth year, the Native Film and Video Festival at the National Museum of the American Indian ...
Real-time spectacles: two artworks and the representation of soccer.
May 01, 2009 ... Two recent artworks take the soccer stadium as the arena in which to create two radically different representations of the game as a real-time spectacle. Both Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006) and Harun Farocki's video installation "Deep ...
Archival meaning: materiality, digitization, and the nineteenth-century photograph.
May 01, 2009 ... Just as the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology was being founded at Harvard in 1866, Alexander Gardner was photographing native American tribal delegations in images that fused portrait with typology (now at the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives at the National ...
Self as other.(Korean Photography)
May 01, 2009 ... Identity, Costume, Cliche: Korean Photography Today Photographic Center Northwest Seattle March 2-27, 2009 A true sense of self means a certain amount of liberation from the past. A mesh of oppressive history and current cultural politics ...
Corporate gloss.(Annenberg Space for Photography)
May 01, 2009 ... L8S ANG3LES Annenberg Space for Photography Los Angeles March 27-June 20, 2009 The renowned Annenberg Foundation has created a 10,000-square-foot multimedia photography center in Los Angeles, opening with the exhibition "L8S ANG3LES," a group ...
Book sense.
May 01, 2009; ... Matej Kren: Introspective Bratislava City Gallery Bratislava, Slovak Republic November 26, 2008-March 8, 2009 Magazines, newspapers, and especially books supply Matej Kren, a Slovak artist who lives in Prague, with a steady source of raw ...
The magnification of space.(photograph exhibitions)
May 01, 2009 ... Josef Schulz: Form Yossi Milo Gallery New York City December 11, 2008-January 31, 2009 Luisa Lambri: Photographs Luhring Augustine New York City January 10-February 7, 2009 David Haxton: Color ...
His pupils' nature.(John Pfahl's photographic collection)
May 01, 2009; ... Natura Rochester Contemporary Art Center Rochester, New York February 6-March 22, 2009 John Pfahl's work is a tireless investigation of our perceptions, encompassing a variety of approaches but always with a keen awareness of the interaction of ...
Contested space.(Yael Bartana's installations)
May 01, 2009; ... Yael Bartana P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Queens, New York October 19, 2008-May 4, 2009 Framed by rising construction, figures work together. Dedicated to their tasks, they survey the landscape and wipe sweat from their brows. These ...
Black diamond.(art chronicle of technological era)
May 01, 2009; ... From Dust to Gold The Royal Library Copenhagen November 11, 2006-December 31, 2009 As George W, Bush prepared to leave the While House this past January, the National Archives began to fret that its computer system might choke on massive ...
Geo topo.(Toshio Shibata's photographs)
May 01, 2009; ... Toshio Shibata: Landscape Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo December 13, 2008-February 8, 2009 Toshio Shibata is known for photographs of civil engineering projects in the Japanese countryside dams, spillways, channel linings, ...
Exact seeing.(Do Not Refreeze: Photography Behind the Berlin Wall)
May 01, 2009; ... Do Not Refreeze: Photography Behind the Berlin Wall German Embassy London September 17, 2008-January 17, 2009 First shown at Manchester's Cornerhouse in 2007, "Do Not Refreeze: Photography Behind the Berlin Wall" found its final exhibition at ...
On pondering propaganda.(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Art Power By Boris Groys MIT Press, 2008 224 pp./$22.95 (hb) Boris Groys is well known for his scholarship on state-produced art--a subject that he previously explored in The Total Art of Stalinism (1992). His most recent book, Art Power, ...
Ordinary uncertainties.(William Eggleston: Democratic Camera--Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 )(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... William Eggleston: Democratic Camera--Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 Whitney Museum of Art, 2008 320 pp./$65.00 (hb) "Democratic" is a word often associated with William Egglesion's work but as one English wit barked after hearing of the Nazi-Soviet ...
A window slammed [begin strikethrough]shut[end strike through] open.(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography Edited by Karen Beckman and Jean Ma Duke University Press, 2008 312 pp./$84.95 (hb), $23.95 (sb) When Tom Gunning took the stage at Princeton University in 2005 to deliver the final talk of the ...
Operating without a license.(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... Appropriation Edited by David Evans Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2009 240 pp./$24.95 (sb) Appropriation (2009) is the latest addition to the series "Documents of Contemporary Art" published as a joint effort of the Whitechapel Gallery and ...
Barbara crane: private views.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... APERTURE/2009/128 PP./$40.00 (HB) In the 1980s Barbara Crane attended the many varied and vibrant summer festivals in the Chicago area. Equipped with a Speed Graphic Camera and a lot of Polaroid film she created images that reveal the sweat, the energy, and the charisma of the ...
Collective memory.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 01, 2009; ... BY DOUG KEYES DECODE, INC/2008/64 PP./$35.00 (HB) In Collective Memory, Doug Keyes masterfully condenses the visual experience of reading into a series of luminous images. Photographing thirty different books ranging from Stephen W. Hawking's A Brief History of Time ...