IMPERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY Maxime Du Camp (1822-1894) The Camera’s Vision Photography inherited the conventions of painting and these conventions are artificially organized into hierarchies that emphasize contents according to the subject matter. Other objects are...
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION—WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT: VESTIGIAL THINKING/FUTURE THINKING Note: I wrote this article in September of 2010, long before there was the word or concept called MOOC. In the future—soon to be available for your...
ROGER FENTON IN THE CRIMEA The Beginnings of War Photography The Crimean War It would be interesting to create a history out of the importance of maps and the stories they tell. Take the map of Russia for example. The nation is huge but it is locked between the Arctic...
PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE VICTORIAN ERA Roger Fenton (1819-1869) Royal Patronage and Photography By the middle of the nineteenth century, the dominate power in the world was Great Britain, a pair of small islands off the coast of continental Europe. Thanks to its powerful...
THE NEW AVANT-GARDE: RETURN TO CHANGE presented by Dr. Jeanne S. M. Willette to the College Art Association, New York, New York Saturday, February 12, 2011 A hundred and forty years ago, the art world in Paris faced a self-imposed crisis—or to be more...
