Afterimage back issues from March 2007:
Beyond Hollywood.(36th Rotterdam International Film Festival)
Mar 01, 2007; ... 36TH ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS JANUARY 24-FEBRUARY 4, 2007 Rumors of the death of theatrically based film art have been greatly exaggerated. At least, that is the sense one gets from ten days of continuous film ...
Free media.(National Conference for Media Reform)
Mar 01, 2007; ... NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR MEDIA REFORM MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE JANUARY 11-13, 2007 While President George W. Bush was advocating for a "surge" in troops in Iraq, and pundits on both sides of the aisle were responding to his State of the Union declaration that ...
Why Warhol now? Reframing the Supernova.(Andy Warhol's exhibition)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Given the apocalyptic title "Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962-1964," the exhibition was a tightly focused selection of Warhol's silkscreen paintings and films from a pivotal period in his career when he was developing his screened serial technique, linking the ...
Palestinian identity: the work of Tarek Al-Ghoussein.
Mar 01, 2007; ... For many, going home awakens nostalgic feelings and fond memories of childhood. However, for the Palestinian, the identity of home is often highly contested. Many Palestinians who have lived within the region or who have ties to the area often feel displaced as they struggle with notions ...
Video installation: characteristics of an expanding medium.
Mar 01, 2007; ... Video installations, with their multiple historic roots, are unique hybrid art forms that represent the dominant direction art-making has taken in the twentieth century toward interdisciplinary boundary-crossing collaborations that connect artists to new ideas and practices, while ...
Erratum.(Correction notice)
Mar 01, 2007 ... In the feature article by Melinda Barlow in the January/February 2007 issue, the ...
In step with Gramsci: an interview with Alfredo Jaar.(Antonio Gramsci)(Interview)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The mode of being of the new intellectual can no longer consist in eloquence ... but in active participation in practical life, as constructor, organizer, "permanent persuader" and not just a simple orator ... Antonio Gramsci, Letters from Prison (1) These words of ...
Don't ever change a book I never wanted to make: a true story about some paper I thought I set aflame.
Mar 01, 2007; ... That poor guy up there is not me. Nor is the one on the opposite page. But they both capture something about high school that I can't really articulate with words. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I had an idea for a book I thought would be fun. The book would be a compendium ...
Climate of war.(art exhibitions)
Mar 01, 2007; ... AN-MY LE: SMALL WARS OCTOBER 26, 2006-JANUARY 6, 2007 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO CHICAGO WAR FARE: WORKS BY ASHLEY GILBERTSON, SEAN HEMMERLE, SARAH PICKERING, MARTHA ROSLER, AND SEAN SNYDER OCTOBER ...
Body of work.(art exhibitions)
Mar 01, 2007; ... DEVIANT BODIES 2.0 CEPA GALLERY BUFFALO, NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 29-DECEMBER 17, 2006 Following on the heels of the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art's (CEPA) groundbreaking 2004 exhibition "Deviant Bodies 1.0," which explored not art by gay ...
Capturing the pain of others.(photo exhibition by Gilles Peress and Candace Scharsu)
Mar 01, 2007; ... FLASH POINTS: A FOCUS ON GLOBAL TRAUMA: PHOTOGRAPHS BY GILLES PERESS AND CANDACE SCHARSU SIDNEY MISHKIN GALLERY, BARUCH COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK CITY NOVEMBER 15-DECEMBER 12, 2006 December 2006 saw Hollywood promoting, with ...
A caregiver's journal.(Gail Rebhan's art exhibition)
Mar 01, 2007; ... GAIL REBHAN: AGING PYRAMID ATLANTIC GALLERY SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND DECEMBER 2, 2006-JANUARY 13, 2007 Poetry and art memorializing the dying reached its apex in the nineteenth century, before medical breakthroughs and the rise of youth culture made aging ...
LABYRINTH OF THEORY.(The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE BODY AND THE SCREEN: THEORIES OF INTERNET SPECTATORSHIP BY MICHELE WHITE CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: MIT PRESS, 2006 280 PP./$35.00 (HB) For film theorists with a keen sense of cinema's transition into the digital age, a book that professes a feminist ...
SUBSTANTIVE SPACES.(Kardanakhi Tataroba)(The Nameless Dead)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007; ... KARDANAKHI TATAROBA BY CLIFTON MEADOR CHICAGO: EPICENTER, 2006 88 PP./$42.00 (HB) THE NAMELESS DEAD BY CLIFTON MEADOR NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT: PABA PUBLICATIONS, 2004 112 PP./$65.00 (HB) Clifton Meador's most recent books ...
SEARCHERS OF THE LOST TOMES.(The Photobook: A History, vol. 2)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE PHOTOBOOK: A HISTORY (VOLUME II) COMPILED BY MARTIN PARR AND GERRY BADGER NEW YORK: PHAIDON PRESS, 2006 336 PP./$75.00 (HB) The impetus for The Photobook: A History comes from Martin Parr's intuitive understanding of the medium as a working ...
Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive, by Joel Meyerowitz Phaidon/349 pp./$75.00 (hb). In the days that followed September 11, 2001, lower Manhattan's city blocks were cordoned off and the site was deemed a crime scene where people were prohibited by law from taking photographs ....
A Dictionary of Colours and Pigments.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007 ... A Dictionary of Colours and Pigments, by Peter Baker. Rosedogbooks/270 pp./$24.00 (sb). Reading only a few pages of A Dictionary of Colours and Pigments by Peter Baker, I learned that pigment and pimento come from the same Latin root word, a cow's black-and-white fur can be ...
Lynching in the West.(Lynching in the West, 1850-1935)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Lynching in the West, 1850-1935, by Ken Gonzalez-Day. Duke University Press/332 pp./$22.95 (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lynching in the United States has long been understood as an act of extreme prejudice, vigilante justice, and expedited retribution committed ...
Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television, by Elana Levine. Duke University Press/320 pp./$22.95 (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Wallowing in Sex, Elana Levine analyzes the role of television during the sexual revolution of the 1970s as ...
What We Think Now.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007; ... What We Think Now, by Jonathan Hollingsworth. Self-published 52 pp./$20.00 (sb). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2004, Jonathan Hollingsworth grabbed his camera, a stack of white poster boards, and some Sharpies and drove around Southern California stopping to question and ...
Notices.
Mar 01, 2007 ... EXHIBITIONS ARIZONA Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7380 E. 2nd St. Art is an Idea: The Moquay Collection. Through April 27. Celebrity. Through April 29. www.smoca.org. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, ...