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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