Monday, May 15 Eastman House collection

1. Last Friday, your personal photo project was introduced, and you were asked to select a theme and send it along to me.

If you did so, there is a 100 points in your homework column. Any not received, should send your selection to me now for 50 points.

There were a couple of folks who sent me topic names, rathe than themes. Remember that a theme is a generalized concept, not a catchy title.

All the details for the project, which I have extended to have a due date of TUESDAY, May 23 (so that you may assemble your work in class on Monday) is on the blog for Friday, May 12. Read it over carefully.

2. By this Thursday, I need everyone to bring in a photograph of yourself taken a minimum of 5 years ago. That means you must be somewhere between 1 and 13 years of age. There may be other people in the picture. I would ask that you try to have a physical photo, rather than an electronic image. I will not be keeping the picture. If you bring it in before Thursday, I will hold on to it until then for you.

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In class today.

3. Reviewing some photographic techniques.

Xie Kitchin as "A Chinaman"   by Lewis Carroll  (For what is he best known?)

4.  Eastman House collection

To begin: go to the George Eastman House site 

 George Eastman House

 We have one of the best photographic collections in the world literally around the corner. I would like you to become familiar with some of the early efforts in photography; as well, you will notice that there are links to museums around the world on the Google art project. This is a resource that can serve you well both in your personal life and during college.


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Click on the collection of 40 items representing the United States of America.

Scroll through and then return to the beginning.

Answer the the following questions. Send along as usual.

1. What war does is portrayed in the Pinckney House ruins?

2. What type of photographic process was used in the Rollin Heber Neal photograph? (research)

3. What were the economic circumstances surrounding the photo "Damaged Child"?

4. What specifically was the Solidarity Parade and who are these three men?

5. What is the process of an albumen print as shown in the "Slave Pen"?

6. In the "Photographer's Tent in Fernadina, Florida" there are double images. Explain the use of a stereopticon.  And try one out, if you like.

7. How do you think Alvin Langdon Coburn photographed "The Octopus" in 1912?

8. Look at the photo of Georgia O'Keefe by Alfred Stieglitz. Explain the pictoralist technique.

9. Of what is Eadweard Muybridge's "Walking with a Bucket in Mouth, Light Gray Horse" a precursor?

10. Who was Edwin Booth's infamous brother? ("Edwin Booth and his daughter Edwina")

11. What is the connection between gutta percha and photography?

12.  What was the brownie camera?