Class lectures with Jeff Curto from College of DuPage
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.
To view podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [56:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (9387)Class session #6 looks at the interaction between painting and photography since before photography’s invention through the late 20th century.
To view podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [1:44:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (9361)Field Trip! The Photo History class visits the The Mary L. and Leigh B. Block Photography Study Room at the Art Institute of Chicago, giving us the opportunity to see original images from the history of the medium, including this extraordinary image of Frederick Douglass by Samuel J. Miller.
The Art Institute of Chicago:
To view podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [1:07:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (8688)This session explores the idea of photography as a mode of virtual transportation. We use an article by Oliver Wendell Holmes and the voices of various 19th century landscape photographers as we travel the world and the American west.
To view podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [1:35:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (9125)A look at 19th, 20th and even a few 21st century portraits, with an attempt to draw parallels between early portraiture and contemporaneous writing as well as explore the way era, idea and technology might impact portrait images.
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