Afterimage Magazine Study Collection
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics
label: Occupation
content: Artists
label: Topic
content: Newspapers
label: Topic
content: Art and photography
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content: Afterimage Magazine Study Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism is a bimonthly journal published between 1972 and the present. Between 1972 and 2018, it was published by the Visual Studies Workshop--a non-profit organization in Rochester, New York dedicated to art education. In 2018, it transferred publishing to the University of California Press. 

The original journal was founded by photographer Nathan Lyons. It printed bimonthly and cover themes of art, culture, and politics through features, essays, local and international news, and exhibition and book reviews. The focus of the journal was to create a social dialogue aronud politically engaged artistic practices and the artist as cultural critic and curator.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 18 Magazines (periodicals) (B/W, 17 x 11.5 in. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 - 1996
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred from the Warren M. Robbins Library in 2015.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2023-003
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content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Magazines (periodicals)
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: Contains 18 issues of the publication After Image: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, from the 1990s. The journal published bimonthly and includes features, essays, local and international news, exhibition reviews, and book reviews.