#photography lectures

[garadinervi]

Lee Lozano lecturing at NSCAD, Halifax, July 16, 1971 [Hauser & Wirth, Zürich. © Estate of Lee Lozano]

[yeoldenews]

I'm really loving your #tbt posts lately (which I assume might come from your queue). Thanks for keeping the historical interest flowing. One question: I'd love to know who the family is in the Minnesota photos. I assume you wrote about them in the past, if you have a personal source for the pictures. (My grandfather and his family were from Minnesota, and I recently viewed some photos of them.)

I wish I knew! Unfortunately this is one of several "white whale" albums I've purchased over the years with absolutely no written identification in them, and one of only two I haven't had any luck tracking down any individual people in the photos.

My current best guess is that the album is of a young adults group from the English Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in St. Paul, and was taken in the summer/fall of 1897 or 1898. There is one photo of a group in front of a church with a partial sign visible behind them which I was able to match to that church. I did some additional research and found that the church group did regular summer outings to many tourist spots and lakes in the St. Paul area.

I was able to additionally pinpoint the location to the St. Paul area due to the waterslide in the background of this image and a visible sign for the Nevers Dam (on the MN/WI border) in another.

I compiled a list of a dozen or so people who attended the church at the time (from newspaper mentions of various events at the church) but so far haven't had any luck matching any of those people to the individuals in the album.

It's a great album, about 40 or so pictures in total and I believe it was likely developed at home by an amateur photographer. None of the photos are mounted, being printed on very thin paper, and several have hand applied mats added to the exposures to change the shape - as seen above.

Snapshots from the 1890s are my absolute favorite photographs as personal photography was still in its infancy, and people were still figuring out what exactly to do with the cameras the now had access to. Many of the images are still posed like studio portraits, but you can see the very beginnings of people starting to get creative with what they chose to capture.

[sugaredpastille]

☕️🧦 - agh, tiring day

[hilasss]

La construcción, Franz Kafka

[postcard-from-the-past]

Pierre Curie having a lecture on Radium at the La Sorbonne University in Paris

French vintage postcard

[boyhood]

Forgot to wash all the paint off my hands before I recorded my lecture which is so stupid

[isozyme]

[source]

[meta-holott]

2012 Paris

[exhibit-of-the-century]

Checklist For Writing Essay:

Masterlist

BUY ME A COFFEE

More of a person note for me, when polishing off an essay to double check the criteria.

Times New Roman

Size 12

10% of word count over if needed.

Italicize works of art.

“_” for chapters/books.

Name of Artwork, Artist name, Date, Size, Location

Try to find images of the work with people/in the gallery space.

Spell out any number below 100 (eg. Three dimensional)

Double Spaced

(Not cheating to share your work with someone on the course and discuss)

Must use Footnotes, MHRA refrencing style

Footnotes sometimes count in word count DOUBLE CHECK

Footnote numbers should always appear after the full stop at the end of the relevant sentence, even when they refer to a point made midsentence.

When writing visual analysis, consider closing your eyes as someone reads back what you’ve written about the artwork, and consider if you can clearly visualise in your mind from what you’ve written.

Paragraph organisation by: Intro/ paragraphs on separate ideas/ conclusion

Online walkthrough gallery. Make arguments/convince when writing, of what you see/ how you understand it.

Talk about materials used.

Space it inhabits and effect on observer.

Academic sources must be used.

Short comings in the essay/academic paper to be discussed and evaluated.

JSTOR

Website and access to academic papers usually needed to have uni library sign in. Some museums have sources too. Browse library or articles in library database.

Find interesting texts, then use and write about it. Footnotes included in work count.

Museum repository, Wikipedia to start.

WHAT IS MOST SIGNIFICANT TO YOU?

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

London Metropolitan Archives picture library, aka 'Collage' - all things London

London Metropolitan Archives youtube channel

BFI Player film archive - shorts and features from the BFI, national and regional archives

BFI Player - Britain on Film, with searchable map

RibaPix - UK's largest architectural photo library

Pathe Newsreel - great way of quickly diving into historical news items, and fascinating for the visuals as well as the thorough textual transcripts

British Cartoon Archive - 200,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons covering 200 years

Black in the Day - A submission based archive documenting the lives of black people living in the UK

Wellcome Library - not all but many items are digitised

For those students with a particular interest in museums and museum studies, check out our very own Mapping Museums website:

https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/home

Researching Online: A Guide

Below are worked examples of how to do an essay or research project using only online resources.

Don’t spend ages looking for one article or book unless it is really essential and even then, you may not be able to get it, but you will find something related.

Vary your search terms, e.g. for the examples below: early modern, renaissance, reformation, sixteenth century might all be relevant.

Follow links in articles and on collections – often, footnotes in journals online may be hyperlinked to the item (especially in more recent publications), you can see similar items, or who has cited that work. For primary sources/collections, catalogues may suggest similar items too.

There will be dead ends and frustrations but persevere – there is lots of material out there.

Save things using a citation programme like Zotero or Mendeley

If you find something interesting and potentially useful for another topic, bank it for later

Be creative and use sources you might not have thought about before, for example the sound archive in the British Library and think across period and geography.

Google Scholar and on JSTOR/other platforms, Project Muse which is another very good platform with loads of open access material.

USTC: the USTC is a database of early modern printed books across Europe

Interesting source:

[frank-olivier]

Reframing the American Dream: Justine Kurland’s Photographic Journey

Justine Kurland's career as a photographer has been shaped by her fascination with the American landscape and the communities that live on its fringes. Her work has consistently challenged traditional narratives and offered alternative perspectives on the country's cultural identity. Two key aspects of her work are her reinterpretation of the American landscape and her exploration of the intersection between freedom and everyday reality.

Kurland's reinterpretation of the American landscape is a central aspect of her work. Her early photographs, taken during road trips across the country, contradicted the masculinist mythology of the American West and instead offered a radical female imaginary. This approach not only challenged the dominant male gaze, but also created a new narrative that was more inclusive and representative of women's experiences. In this way, Kurland's work has helped reframe the way we think about the American landscape and the people who inhabit it.

In her more recent work, Kurland has continued to explore the intersection between freedom and everyday reality. One series examines the relationship between the freedom of the open road and the mundane reality of car culture. By highlighting the tension between the romanticized ideal of the open road and the practical reality of maintenance and repair, Kurland's work invites critical reflection on how freedom is experienced and the role of cars in American life.

Kurland's work has been widely recognized and celebrated, with exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of institutions as a testament to the impact and influence of her work and the significance of her contributions to the field of photography.

Justine Kurland (ICP Lecture, 2014)

Friday, October 18, 2024

[gamzenursariogluu]

Balıkesir Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Grafik Sanatlar Bölümü Fotoğraf Dersi - Öğretim Görevlisi : Serdar Yılmaz Öğrenci : Gamze Nur Sarıoğlu Konu : Kişilik

[carolemm]

Ouiiii Merci Ninie ! Le dernier Amélie Nothomb ! « L’impossible retour », c’est l’impossible retour d’Amélie au Japon, qui est son pays fondamental, celui par lequel elle se définit.

Et pourtant, grâce ou à cause d’une amie très chère, elle se voit obligée d’y retourner en mai 2023. Elle y est née et y a passé les cinq premières années de sa vie avant de déménager en Chine.

Ce roman sur son périple nippon, c’est un livre nécessaire, elle s’y dévoile comme jamais. Elle y expose son amour pour le Japon et en hologramme celui pour son père aujourd’hui décédé. Très psychanalytique, c’est un mélange d’hypermnésie et d’amnésie. C’est un livre aussi très sensuel où les sentiments passent par les couleurs, la nourriture, le théâtre de No (la chanson)… Et puis la fantaisie quand même ! Son amie Pep Beni, photographe fantasque, est pleine de névroses, elle est aussi très occidentale dans ce pays très discipliné et cela occasionne des situations assez cocasses.

Bref, j’ai aimé comme j’aime cette femme : Amélie Nothomb.

« Il me faut vaincre, pour partir, un amour aussi puissant que l'inertie.

Rappel : l'inertie est la résistance d'un objet à une force exerçant sur lui un mouvement. Le dictionnaire y voit une propriété. Je me permets de trouver cela inexact. Une propriété, c'est presque une épithète homérique. L'inertie, c'est beaucoup plus grave.

Partir m'apparaît toujours comme une violence. Et pourtant, il s'agit de départs tellement plus bénins que ceux de ma jeunesse, puisque je suis assurée de revenir. ��

« Quand Paul Bowles déclarait que le voyageur digne de ce nom était celui qui n'était pas sûr de revenir, il ne parlait évidemment pas pour mon cas pathologique, puisque, au lieu de vivre cette incertitude avec une noblesse métaphysique, je l'appréhende de la pire manière. Les veilles de départ, je ne dors pas : je suis trop accaparée par mes adieux à mon lit, à mon placard, à mon quotidien. »

« J'avais cinq ans et je savais que j’allais quitter le Japon et j'en avais d'avance le cœur déchiré. Et mon père également. Nous avions lui et moi inventé la nostalgie préventive : idée romantiquement funeste, vaccin inspirant, se contentant d'agrandir dans l'âme la région dévolue à la nostalgie rétrospective. »

« À présent, je ne suis plus harcelée par des supérieurs hiérarchiques mais par des lapins. L'une de ces adorables petites bêtes vient déposer des crottes sur mon pied.

- Il t'aime ! s'extasie Pep.

L'amour a bien des mystères. J'ai envie de secouer mon pied, mais je devine que j'offenserais ce nouveau prétendant et que Pep ne me le pardonnerait pas. »

[mortuusflores]

Ascension Hall

[rwpohl]

india song, marguerite duras 1975

[janemerkin]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Vietnamese woman having a reading lecture

French vintage postcard