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    History of Photography Podcast

    Podcasts, class lectures and resources from Jeff Curto

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    History of Photography Podcast 11 : The Cyanotype Oct 06, 2015
    Show notes

    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-to-produce cyanotype lives on today in the darkrooms of many photographers and artists.

    Links for this episode:

    • Sir John Herschel – at the Getty Museum
    • Anna Atkins – British Algae in the New York Public Library
    • Alternative Photography – a how-to guide from a good source
    • Cyanotype material from Freestyle Photo
    • Lenscratch.com – Review of a contemporary exhibition of alternative processes, including Cyanotype
    • My Italy Photography Workshops are being planned for May and June of 2016 – get on the Advanced Notice Mailing List here
    Anna Atkins (1799-1871). Papaver rhoeas. Paper watermarked 1845. Cyanotype from the Atkins-Dixon album presented by Anne Dixon to her nephew in 1861. Image from A History of Women Photographers, published by Abbeville Press.
    Anna Atkins (1799-1871).
    Papaver rhoeas. Paper watermarked 1845.
    Cyanotype from the Atkins-Dixon album presented by Anne Dixon to her nephew in 1861.
    Image from A History of Women Photographers, published by Abbeville Press.
    History of Photography Podcast 10 : The Kodak Brownie Jul 28, 2015
    Show notes

    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 to preserve their personal and family memories. With its simple controls and initial price of $1, it was intended to be a camera that anyone could afford and use.

    Links for this episode:

    • The George Eastman House’s Brownie Collection
    • Kodak’s Brownie History Page (a little dated, but interesting)
    • Brownie In Motion – Stephen Takacs very cool project – also on Stephen’s website
    The Kodak Brownie
    The Kodak Brownie
    History of Photography Podcast 9 : Latent Image and Immediate Image Jun 02, 2015
    Show notes

    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 photographic images – had a hard time with the concept of the latent image, yet it was one of the most important components of the technology of photography in its infancy.

    History of Photography Podcast 8 : Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky Apr 22, 2015
    Show notes

    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 Russian Revolution and World War I. In this podcast we explore both Prokudin-Gorsky’s photographs and the unique tri-color photographic technique he employed to create them.

    Links for this podcast:

    • Book – Nostalgia: The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II Captured in Colored Photographs by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
    • The Empire that was Russia – Library of Congress collection of Prokudin-Gorskii photographs and information
    Peasant Girls - Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov. Photograph by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky
    Peasant Girls – Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov. Photograph by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky
    History of Photography Podcast 7 : Tina Modotti Apr 07, 2015
    Show notes

    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 with Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo and other Mexican artists, Modotti was also a political activist during the Mexican Revolution and beyond.

    Links for this episode:

    • Tina Modotti web archive
    • Mexico as Muse – Modotti & Weston at SFMOMA
    • Tina Modotti at MOMA
    Tina Modotti Mexican sombrero with hammer and sickle 1927
    Tina Modotti
    Mexican sombrero with hammer and sickle
    1927
    History of Photography Podcast 6 : Looking at Photographs Mar 09, 2015
    Show notes

    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 about photography’s aesthetics as well. Szarkowski, the former Director of the Department of Photography at MOMA from 1962 to 1991, pairs 100 photographs with a brief and insightful essay. The combination of image and text causes the reader/viewer to go back and forth and as you look at each photograph repeatedly, you add to the richness of your own viewing.

    Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski - Book Jacket Image
    Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski – Click to go to Amazon.com
    History of Photography Podcast 5 : Gordon Parks Feb 23, 2015
    Show notes

    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, poverty, civil rights and honest depictions of urban life, Parks’ work provides an amazing chronicle important aspects of American urban life in the last half of the 20th century.

    Links for this episode:

    • The Gordon Parks Foundation
    • Books by Gordon Parks– on Amazon
    • Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument – The New Orleans Museum of Art exhibition archive page
    • Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument – A recap of the wonderful show at the New Orleans Museum of art about Parks’ essay Harlem Gang Leader
    Gordon Parks: American Gothic, 1942
    Gordon Parks: American Gothic, 1942
    History of Photography Podcast 4 : James Van Der Zee Feb 09, 2015
    Show notes

    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 social, religious and athletic groups, he created an intimate narrative about his community, showing the world a part of America that was rarely seen.

    Links for this episode:

    • James Van Der Zee in the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
    • The Studio Museum of Harlem is the custodian of a large archive of Van Der Zee’s work
    • Van Der Zee’s funerary portraits
    Jean-Michel Basquiat - Photograph by James Van Der Zee
    Jean-Michel Basquiat – Photograph by James Van Der Zee
    History of Photography Podcast 3 : The Family of Man Jan 26, 2015
    Show notes

    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! Flung wide and far, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams, among lovers, eaters, drinkers, workers, loafers, fighters, players, gamblers. Here are ironworkers, bridgemen, musicians, sandhogs, miners, builders of huts and skyscrapers, jungle hunters, landlords and the landless, the loved and the unloved, the lonely and the abandoned, the brutal and the compassionate-one big family hugging close to the ball of Earth for its life and being.”

    Links for this episode:

    • Family of Man Re-installation in Luxembourg
    • Professor Fred Turner’s web page
    • The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America – Fred Turner’s great essay on the exhibition (PDF)
    • The Family of Man book on Amazon

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    History of Photography Podcast 2 : Lisette Model Jan 13, 2015
    Show notes

    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 street photographer’s aesthetic for decades to come.

    The Gambler - Photograph by Lisette Model
    The Gambler – Photograph by Lisette Model
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