Class lectures with Jeff Curto from College of DuPage
Powerful and horrific photographs of the effects of the Battle of Gettysburg by Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner are the subject of today’s Photo History Summer School.
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Above: Timothy O’Sullivan - A Harvest of Death - July, 1863
Above: Alexander Gardner - The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, July, 1863
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Today’s summer school session is all about color.
On this date in 1904, The Parisian brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière presented their patented color photographic process, the Autochrome, to the French Academy of Sciences. The Autochrome was the first commercially feasible color photographic process; the first time photographers could reliably produce color images.
This is date is also the birthday of one of the great color photographers of the 20th century, Pete Turner. Turner, born in 1934 in Albany, New York, has had a long history of using color as subject. His photographs contain raw, punchy often startling color and have been like that since long before it was fashionable to do so.
Some Autochrome and Pete Turner images:
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In today’s May 25th edition of Photo History Summer School, we note the birth dates of the avant garde Cech photographer Jaroslav Rossler and the oddly surrealistic American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard as well as the anniversary of the death of the preeminant war photographer Robert Capa.
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Cornell Capa, the photojournalist and tireless advocate of humanistic photography died today, May 23, 2008. He was 90 years old. A great and committed photographer, Capa’s heartfelt images were often overshadowed by two other elements in his life. One was the photography of his brother, the pre-eminent war photographer Robert Capa. The other was the founding and early management of the International Center for Photography (ICP) in New York, considered by many to be one of the most important photographic resources in the world.
Portrait of Cornell Capa by Bill Jay
Photographs (below) by Cornell Capa - click to enlarge
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In the 15th and final class session for the spring, 2008 term, we examine both documentary and conceptual photography, looking at the motivation and rationale behind each avenue of image making. We also try to tie up the ideas of the course with some concluding remarks.
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To play podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [1:37:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (8082)During his 29-year tenure as Director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the great curator and photographer John Szarkowski (1925 to 2007) changed the way the world saw photography.
This short class session introduces Szarkowski’s work and was followed by a short film about him.
To play podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [35:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (8372)We trace the trajectory of the manipulated image in this session entitled, “The Past is Prologue - The Manipulative Impulse and the Digital Age.” We also try to see if we can figure out where our digital photographic age is taking us and whether we want to go there.
To play podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [1:45:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (17111)This class session looks at women’s photography by examining the work of various female photographers as well as by looking at the bigger issue of whether the photographer’s gender changes the images that are made.
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Before starting that topic, we cover “The Muddiest Points” for the term so far.
To view podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [2:18:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (10802)One of the great characters in the history of the medium, Alfred Stieglitz was also one of the most influential photographers and promoters of photography of the 20th century. In this class, we look at Stieglitz and the group of photographers and other artists he gathered around him.
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To view podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [53:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (35654)A slightly shorter class session, as we cover two smaller topics: 1) the ideas surrounding stereoscopic photography and 2) the way 19th century photographers handled the problems of photographing standard subjects.
To view podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [1:08:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (33899)From the very beginning of the medium, photographers have wanted to portray their sense of wonder and awe in the face of the natural world through the camera’s lens, often offering up nature as the Great American Cathedral. This romantic tradition continues, but the mid-20th century saw a change in the way photographers looked at the world around them; a change that altered the face of photography. By looking at photographs from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, we’ll explore the ways photographers have recorded and interpreted nature with the camera.
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The Art Institute of Chicago:
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