Class lectures with Jeff Curto from College of DuPage
The interactive relationship that painting and photography have had for 170 years is the topic of this class session. We attempt to look at how painting influenced photography and vice-versa. We also look briefly at how what photographs “look like” influence our understanding of what they are.
To play podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [2:01:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTravel photography in the 19th century is the focus of class session number 5. We look at how the advent of wet-plate collodion technology spurred the advance of travel and landscape photography, with a special emphasis on photography of the American west.
To play podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [1:16:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThe 4th class meeting starts a more conceptual approach to the medium’s history. We look at 19th, 20th and some 21st century portraits and see if we can draw some conclusions about what makes a good portrait photograph. We also see if we can draw some parallels with the words and ideas of the Transcendentalist thinkers and writers Emerson and Thoreau and see if they can help us illuminate what portraiture means.
To play podcast larger, click "download" and play in QuickTime Player [1:46:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIn 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.
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