Podcasts by History of Photography Podcast
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History of Photography Podcast 8 : Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The photographs of pioneer color photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944) give us a remarkable view into a world that is now lost – the Russian Empire just before the Russ...
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History of Photography Podcast 11 : The Cyanotype from 2015-10-06T14:30:55
The cyanotype was one of the earliest photographic processes and with its rich, blue color, remains one of the most beautiful. Invented in 1842 by the amazingly prolific Sir John Herschel, the easy...
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History of Photography Podcast 10 : The Kodak Brownie from 2015-07-28T14:30:11
The Kodak Brownie camera was one of the most popular cameras in the history of photography. The Brownie popularized low-cost photography and introduced the concept of the snapshot to a public eager...
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History of Photography Podcast 9 : Latent Image and Immediate Image from 2015-06-02T14:30:02
When light sensitive material is exposed to light, a chemical change happens, but this change isn’t necessarily visible. This idea is perhaps part of why early photographers – and early viewers of ...
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History of Photography Podcast 7 : Tina Modotti from 2015-04-07T22:54:03
Tina Modotti (1896 – 1942) was an Italian photographer who was most active in Mexico between 1923 and 1930. Known for her romantic and business relationship with Edward Weston and her friendships w...
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History of Photography Podcast 6 : Looking at Photographs from 2015-03-09T14:30:50
John Szarkowski’s book Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art is one of the best ways to learn not only about the history of photography, but also abou...
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History of Photography Podcast 5 : Gordon Parks from 2015-02-23T14:30
Photographer Gordon Parks, born 1912 and died 2006, was one of the most important figures of twentieth century photography. A humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice, race relations, ...
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History of Photography Podcast 4 : James Van Der Zee from 2015-02-09T14:30:42
Photographer James Van Der Zee was active from the 1920s through the late 1970s, working primarily in his native Harlem neighborhood in New York city. Through his elegant portraits and images of s...
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History of Photography Podcast 3 : The Family of Man from 2015-01-26T14:30:37
When the exhibition The Family of Man opened in January of 1955, 60 years ago this month, visitors were greeted by more than 500 photographs and these words by the poet Carl Sandburg: “People! Flun...
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History of Photography Podcast 2 : Lisette Model from 2015-01-13T19:55:51
Photographer Lisette Model, born in Vienna, Austria in 1901 and died 1983, was an important street photographer of the early 20th century, defining much of what would be considered part of the str...
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History of Photography Podcast 1 : Photo History 2.0 from 2015-01-08T14:30:17
Welcome to the History of Photography Podcast 2.0! Having retired from my college teaching job, I’m no longer teaching the photo history class, but I have lots of other irons in the fire and want t...
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Photo History – Class 15 – Photograph as Document, Concept as Photograph from 2014-05-09T20:18:07
The 15th and final class session examines documentary and conceptual photography, looking at the motivation and rationale behind them. We also try to tie up the ideas of the course with some conclu...
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Photo History – Class 14 – Szarkowski: How To See from 2014-05-02T18:54:35
During his 29-year tenure as Director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the great curator and photographer John Szarkowski (1925 to 2007) changed the way the wo...
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Photo History – Class 13 – The Atomic Age and New Frontiers from 2014-04-26T17:01:17
The middle of the 20th century was a time of tremendous change in all areas of the world and especially in the world of photography. This class session looks at the changes that photography experie...
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Photo History – Class 12 – The Manipulative Impulse from 2014-04-18T17:46:10
Is any photograph real? This question comes up as we trace the trajectory of the manipulated image in this class session. We also try to see if we can figure out where our digital photographic age ...
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Photo History – Class 11 – Women in Photography from 2014-04-12T14:23:07
Is anatomy destiny? This class session looks at women’s photography by examining the work of various female photographers as well as by looking at the bigger issue of whether the photographer’s gen...
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Photo History – Class 10 – Cameras Big and Small from 2014-03-29T19:55:06
This week, we examine photographers using large cameras and those using small cameras and try to examine the importance of the choice of tools to the photographer. Does the tool drive the idea, or ...
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Photo History – Class 9 – Stieglitz and the Photo Secession from 2014-03-20T14:00:33
One of the great characters in the history of the medium, Alfred Stieglitz was also one of the most influential photographers and promoters of photography of the 20th century. In this class, we loo...
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Photo History – Class 8 – Muybridge, Marey and the Movies from 2014-03-12T22:31:48
Stop-motion photography as practiced by Edweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey and others is the topic of this class session. These scientific experiments ultimately led to the development of mo...
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Photo History – Class 7 – Stereography and Standard Subjects from 2014-02-28T14:29:45
A slightly shorter class session, as we cover three smaller topics: 1) the ideas surrounding stereoscopic photography, 2) the way 19th century photographers handled photographing standard subjects;...
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Photo History – Class 6 – Photography and Painting from 2014-02-20T14:05:24
The interactive relationship that painting and photography have had for 174 years is the topic of this class session. We attempt to look at how painting influenced photography and vice-versa. We al...
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Photo History – Class 5 – Photography as Transport + On The Road from 2014-02-14T16:46:43
Photography as a form of transportation is the topic for class #5. We look at how the advent of wet-plate collodion technology spurred the advance of travel and landscape photography, with a specia...
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Photo History – Class 4 – Light and Likeness: Portrait Photography from 2014-02-07T18:45:20
The 4th class meeting starts a more conceptual approach to the medium’s history. We look at 19th, 20th and some 21st century portraits and see if we can draw some conclusions about what makes a goo...
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Photo History – Class 3 – History Survey Part 2 from 2014-01-31T14:00:44
In this second part of a two-part survey, we continue our fast trip through the history of photography, attempting to get a handle on who did what, when they did it and how it happened. We start in...
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Photo History – Class 2 – History Survey Part 1 from 2014-01-25T00:50:17
Class session #2 is the first part of a two-part overview of the history of photography; a sort of “condensed” history in order to get a sense of the medium’s “who, what, when and where.” This week...
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Photo History – Class 1 – Course Intro&Overview from 2014-01-17T21:05:57
In this first class session, we spend some time looking at some of the problems that the photo historian faces, including an introduction to the pioneering work of Daguerre and Fox Talbot.
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Photo History – Spring 09 : Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip from 2009-03-15T21:21:23
Field Trip! The Photo History class visits the The Mary L. and Leigh B. Block Photography Study Room at the Art Institute of Chicago, giving us the opportunity to see original images from the histo...
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Photo History Intersession – January 14 from 2009-01-15T05:26:03
The 5th and final Photo History Intersession commemorates the anniversary of the death of 19th century photographer Charles Dodgeson. Dodgeson, better known by his writing pen name of Lewis Carroll...
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Photo History Intersession – January 05 from 2009-01-05T08:47:04
The 4th Photo History Intersession looks at two rather dramatically opposed technical applications of photography: The first X-Ray image, made by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1896 and the first auroral (nort...
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Photo History Intersession – January 01 from 2009-01-01T21:23:11
In the third History of Photography Intersession, we look at some interesting events from January first, as we commemorate the birth date of photographer William Klein, the anniversary of the death...
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Photo History Intersession – December 29 from 2008-12-30T04:09:40
The second “intersession” history of photography podcast commemorates the anniversary of the death of French photographer Robert Demachy, who was active around the turn of the 20th century, as phot...
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Photo History Intersession – December 20 from 2008-12-21T22:47:39
In the first of a few “intersession” podcasts between the fall and spring semesters, we commemorate the birth date of photojournalist W. Eugene Smith (1918) and the anniversary of the death of phot...
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Photo History Summer School – August 22 from 2008-08-26T14:59:08
We bring the summer school sessions to a close with a rememberance of the 100th birthday of the great photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson. Henri Cartier-Bresson, “Hyères, France, 1932”
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Photo History Summer School – July 16 from 2008-07-16T13:55:52
On this date in 1926, National Geographic Magazine published color underwater photographs; a photographic first. This wasn’t the first attempt at underwater photography, however; photographers had ...
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Photo History Summer School – July 7 from 2008-07-07T15:29:43
Alexander Gardner photographed the hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators on July 7, 1865. This image and a pair of Gardner’s portraits of two of the men who are about to be executed are the subjects ...
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Photo History Summer School – July 5 from 2008-07-05T09:18:55
Powerful and horrific photographs of the effects of the Battle of Gettysburg by Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner are the subject of today’s Photo History Summer School. Click Images for a l...
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Photo History Summer School – June 8 from 2008-06-08T23:01:17
In this summer school session, we explore two remarkable photographers; the Vietnamese photojournalist Nick Ut whose best-known image was created on this date and the Chinese pictorial master Don H...
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Photo History Summer School – May 30 from 2008-05-31T23:40:25
Today’s summer school session is all about color. On this date in 1904, The Parisian brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière presented their patented color photographic process, the Autochrome, to the F...
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Photo History Summer School – May 25 from 2008-05-26T04:55:07
In today’s May 25th edition of Photo History Summer School, we note the birth dates of the avant garde Cech photographer Jaroslav Rossler and the oddly surrealistic American photographer Ralph Euge...
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Photo History Summer School – May 23 from 2008-05-24T05:39:49
Cornell Capa, the photojournalist and tireless advocate of humanistic photography died today, May 23, 2008. He was 90 years old. A great and committed photographer, Capa’s heartfelt images were oft...
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Photo History Summer School – May 13 from 2008-05-14T05:45:21
It’s summer, but photo history doesn’t rest… May 13th is the anniversary of the birth of Czech photography Jan Saudek (1935, Prague) and also the anniversary of the death (1980) of German photograp...
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The Camera in The Cathedral: A Brief History of Photography of the Natural World from 2008-02-24T07:56:49
From the very beginning of the medium, photographers have wanted to portray their sense of wonder and awe in the face of the natural world through the camera’s lens, often offering up nature as the...
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