Week 4

Lecture discussion on Chapter 3 continued
Women Behind the Camera
An introduction to Julia Margaret Cameron (Victoria& Albert Museum)
Julia Margaret Cameron's working methods

Women in Photography continued :
Amateur and professionals: 
Photographic Exchange Club in Britain, 

Lady Clementina Hawarden, Clementina and Florence Elizabeth Maude, and again Julia Margaret Cameron


Read article: Women Artists

Chapter 4: Imaging the Social World
War and Photography: The Atlantic Monthly
The Crimean War: Roger Fenton, considered the first war photographer. "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"

The American Civil War
Mathew Brady

Alexander Gardner: The Harvest of Death, Gettysburg
Timothy O'Sullivan

African American Faces of the Civil War

Later Conflicts: Triple Alliance,South America. The Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune

Small Wars:Colonial Expansion
India: John Christian A. Dannenburg, Samuel Bourne
China: Felice A. Beato, Milton M. Miller, Liang Shitai, Afong Lai

Japan: Commodore Mathew C. Perry brings a daguerreotypist to make photographs while he negotiates with the Japanese for nearly five months.(Think movie  "The Last Samauri") 
Photography in the Middle East: Francis Frith 

Topographical Surveys and Photography:
The 49th Parallel Survey: Charles Thurston Thompson
Government Surveys in the US: Transcontinental Railway

Preservation of the Wilderness: Yellowstone and Yosemite.
There were two Wests in the American perception: the West of such natural resources as minerals, timber, and arable land; and the West of ancient Native America peoples, vast geological wonders, and trackless wilderness. 
Carlton E. Watkins


Eadweard Muybridge

William Henry Jackson

Influential writers of the time:  Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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Journal Quote 5: "A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into." ~Ansel Adams 

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War and the Photography of Native Americans: 
The Modoc War, Fort Laramie Treaty, Little Big Horn
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Journal Quote 6: "My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph." ~Richard Avedon 


 

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