This issue of Afterimage, the journal of media arts and cultural criticism, features:
Reports:
WORK THROUGH THE LENS
FOTOGRAFIA: Rome International Photography Festival by Luisa Grigoletto;
ENDANGERED SPECIES by Bill Kouwenhoven
Essay:
SEEN IN ACTION: NOTES ON POLITICS AND AESTHETICS ON FACEBOOK
by Ahmad Hosni;
Features:
LIFE BEYOND THE STILL ZONE: DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER CHERNOBYL by Nina Seja; NEGOTIATING PUBLIC SPACES: A CONVERSATION WITH MEMBERS OF THE STAG PROJECT by Nevena Ivanova;
THE TRANSLATOR’S ECHO: LISTENING TO BIRGIT HEIN’S BABY, I WILL MAKE YOU SWEAT
by Bernard Roddy
Exhibition Reviews:
FAMILY OF MAN
“A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII” by Taryn Simon
Review by Robert Knight
CALENDAR PHOTOS
“Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography”
Review by Kathryn Kramer
BEARING RACE
“Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video”
Review by Jill Conner
TENDING THE FIRE
“Cauleen Smith: A Star is a Seed”
Review by Suzanne E. Szucs
VITAL VOICES
“We Face Forward: Art From West Africa Today”
Review by Caroline Bagenal
FACES AND WORDS AFTER 9/11
“Words We Have Learned Since 9/11?
by Clayton Campbell
Review by Adrian Gu??
Book Reviews
A SUBJECT OF TIME
Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture
by Xenia Nikolskaya
Review by Ahmad Hosni
MATERIAL CRISIS
The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources
by Nadia Bozak
Greening the Media
by Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller
Review by Cynthia Chris
THAT’s ENTERTAINMENT
Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism
by Joshua Yumibe
Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
by Lauren Rabinovitz
Review by Patrick Friel