November/December 2016
Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism is a bimonthly publication of the Visual Studies Workshop, a non-profit media arts center located in Rochester, New York.
For over 40 years, Afterimage has been an important voice in the media arts. Afterimage features unique, high-quality coverage of the visual arts, photography, independent film and video, new media, and alternative publishing, covering important issues and debates within art history, visual and cultural studies, media studies, and related fields. Each issue is a mix of in-depth feature articles, conference and festival reports, book and exhibition reviews, and dozens of citations on new scholarly titles, artist’s books, and exhibition catalogs.
Reports
+ Riga Photography Biennial 2016
+ The Third Island
+ When Art and Science Collide:
+ Arts at CERN
Essays & Features
+ Outcasts: Exploring Documentary Photography and Photo-Elicitation with Long-Term Heroin Users
+ A Harsh Game: Ericka Beckman’s (Virtual) Reality
+ Nude Animal: Vanessa Renwick and the Wild
+ Beyond Mourning: On Photography and Extinction
Exhibition Reviews
+ Less Than One
+ Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers
+ Cao Fei
+ The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men
+ Pao Houa Her: My Mother’s Flowers
+ Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive
Book Reviews
+ The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labor After the Avant-Garde
+ Jet Lag
+ At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City
+ The Camera Does the Rest: How Polaroid Changed Photography
From the Issue
+ Media Received
+ Portfolio: Scheduled Implosions by Hannah Smith Allen
Softcover, staple-bound, b&w and colour.