photo lecture


March 1, 2017

Lecture PPT:

Photog history (1839 up to WWII)

Lecture handout:

Photo slide list 1839-WWII

Study sheet for Cubism lecture on March 8:

Cubism study sheet 2017

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:

Semiotics of the Kitchen

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

Holes Punched through History

Finally, here was the article in the NYT on last Saturday’s incident:

Two Groups Scuffle