Turning 50.(Brief article)(Book review)
TURNING 50
by Bea Nettles. Inky Press Productions/64 pp./$20.00 (sb).
Turning 50, which was rereleased in an edition of 200 in 2005
(originally published in 1995), is a visual account of aging. . . .
Niagara.(Book review)
NIAGARA
by Alec Soth Steidl/144 pp./$60.00 (hb).
Alec Soth has followed up his widely lauded "Sleeping by the
Mississippi" project with an intense and intimate exploration of
another iconic . . .
Installationview.(MEDIA NOTED)(Book review)
INSTALLATIONVIEW
by Ryan McGinness Rizzoli/288 pp./$40.00 (sb).
Steeped in popular culture, graphic design, and the worlds of
marketing and branding, the work of Ryan McGinness often . . .
Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth.(Brief
article)(Book review)
EVERYTHING I ATE: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF MY MOUTH
by Tucker Shaw. Chronicle Books/496 pp./$14.95 (sb).
As a documentary chronicle of our times, Tucker Shaw's
Everything I Ate is just what it . . .
The Europeans: Photographs by Tina Barney.(Book review)
THE EUROPEANS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY TINA BARNEY
London and Gottingen: Barbican Art Gallery and Steidl Publishers,
192 pp./$50.00 (hb).
Quite possibly, the only milieu more rarefied than the upper . . .
Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film by Maya Deren.(Book
review)
ESSENTIAL DEREN: COLLECTED WRITINGS ON FILM BY MAYA DEREN
edited by Bruce R. McPherson. McPherson & Company/261
pp./$18.00 (sb).
To place the words "essential" and "Deren" in
the same title, . . .
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics).(Brief article)(Book review)
ATOMIC LIGHT (SHADOW OPTICS)
by Akira Mizuta Lippit. University of Minnesota Press/248
pp./$19.95 (sb).
What is the common factor among x-ray machines, psychoanalysis, and
atomic radiation? . . .
Media received.
American Surfaces, by Stephen Shore. Phaidon/232 pp./$55.00 (hb).
Back Story 4: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s,
edited by Patrick McGilligan. University of California . . .
Imbedded public histories.(Precious Places)(Video recording
review)
PRECIOUS PLACES
BY SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER
174 MINUTES, ENGLISH, 2005
A vigorous, contentious debate underlies documentary theory,
history, and practice: How do we understand the shifting power . . .
Photo economics.(The Corporate Eye: Photography and the
Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929)(Book
review)
THE CORPORATE EYE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE RATIONALIZATION OF AMERICAN
COMMERCIAL CULTURE, 1884-1929
BY ELSPETH H. BROWN
BALTIMORE: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005
344 PP./$49.95 (HB)
The . . .
Mother board.(My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and
Literary Texts )(Book review)
MY MOTHER WAS A COMPUTER: DIGITAL SUBJECTS AND LITERARY TEXTS
BY N. KATHERINE HAYLES
CHICAGO AND LONDON: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2005
228 PP./$55.00 (HB), $22.00 (SB)
"If nothing . . .
A tough commute. (No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America,
1960-1980)(Book review)
NO LONGER INNOCENT: BOOK ART IN AMERICA 1960-1980
BY BETTY BRIGHT
NEW YORK: GRANARY BOOKS, 2005
350 PP./$39.95 (SB)
As I read No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 by
Betty . . .
Photo synthesis.(The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography,
Drawing, Collage.)(Book review)
THE ART OF FREDERICK SOMMER: PHOTOGRAPHY, DRAWING, COLLAGE
BY KEITH F. DAVIS, ET AL.
NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005
252 PP./$65.00 (HB)
RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD
BY RALPH EUGENE . . .
Reviewing orthodoxies.(A New History of Documentary Film)(Book
review)
A NEW HISTORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM
BY JACK C. ELLIS AND BETSY A. MCLANE
NEW YORK: CONTINUUM, 2005
385 PP./$19.95 (SB)
Now is undoubtedly a boom-time for the documentary. The popularity
and . . .
Subculture communication.(Schablone Berlin )(Book
review)
SCHABLONE BERLIN
BY CAROLINE KOEBEL AND KYLE SCHLESINGER
TUCSON: CHAX PRESS, 2005
150 PP./$16.95 (SB)
"Schablone," the art form that appears with random
frequency on the walls and in the . . .
Art, science, and imagination.(Pluto's Cave: Making Visible
the Invisible)
PLUTO'S CAVE: MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE
BY ACME PHYSICS
BIG ORBIT GALLERY
BUFFALO, NEW YORK
OCTOBER 15-DECEMBER 18, 2005
NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY VISUAL ARTS GALLERY
JERSEY CITY, . . .
Elements for experience.(Alexandre Castonguay: Elements)
ALEXANDRE CASTONGUAY: ELEMENTS
MUSEE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTREAL
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
SEPTEMBER 22, 2005-JANUARY 8, 2006
Computer programmers describe the interconnections between sets . . .
Atrocious images.(Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis
conference)(Conference news)
PICTURING ATROCITY: PHOTOGRAPHY IN CRISIS
THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AT THE GRADUATE CENTER
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
DECEMBER 9, 2005
On December 9, 2005, . . .
Portraits of outrage.(Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis
conference)
PICTURING ATROCITY: PHOTOGRAPHY IN CRISIS
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
NOVEMBER 30-DECEMBER 27, 2005
For four weeks, a small-scale exhibition exploring public
perception . . .
The medium's message.(The Perfect Medium: Photography and
the Occult)(Editorial)
THE PERFECT MEDIUM: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE OCCULT
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
SEPTEMBER 27-DECEMBER 31, 2005
Photography has always been considered a medium of fact, capable . . .
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