Class lectures with Jeff Curto from College of DuPage
This class session explores the idea of photography as a mode of virtual transportation. We use an article by Oliver Wendell Holmes and the voices and photographs of various 19th century landscape photographers as we travel the world and the American west.
To play podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [1:28:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (7861)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.
To play podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [2:00:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (8785)In this second part of a two-part survey, we continue our fast trip through the history of photography, attempting to get a handle on who did what, when they did it and how it happened. We start in around 1880 and finish up in the 1990s.
To view podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [2:19:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (9609)Class session #2 is the first part of a two-part overview of the history of photography; a sort of “condensed” history in order to get a sense of the medium’s “who, what, when and where.” This week, we cover from 1800 B.C. to 1888 A.D. Part two will follow next week.
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