Lecture PPT:
Photog history (1839 up to WWII)
Lecture handout:
Study sheet for Cubism lecture on March 8:
Class video links:
JDT class video links for March 1
Essays on photography, at the Met:
Daguerre and the invention of photography
Besides the usual excellent essays on photography and its practitioners, I found a link to a Met Museum exhibition that explores some of the issues we discussed in the lecture:
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
There was also a series of presentations at a symposium related to the above exhibition. Videos of these presentations are available; if you scroll down the screen past the one in the link below, you’ll see other video content:
Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation
I also happened to find an excerpt of some of Martha Rosler’s work:
Library of Congress article, below:
Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother
Also, this PBS story: The Story of the Migrant Mother
And finally, some more information on FSA photography:
Documenting America, 1935-1943
Finally, here was the article in the NYT on last Saturday’s incident: