History of Photography Podcast
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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
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...
History of Photography Podcast 10 : The Kodak Brownie
The Kodak Brownie camera was one of the most popular cameras in the history of photography. The Brownie popularized low-cost photography and introduce...
History of Photography Podcast 9 : Latent Image and Immediate Image
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...
History of Photography Podcast 8 : Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky
The photographs of pioneer color photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944) give us a remarkable view into a world that is now lost...
History of Photography Podcast 7 : Tina Modotti
Tina Modotti (1896 – 1942) was an Italian photographer who was most active in Mexico between 1923 and 1930. Known for her romantic and business relati...
History of Photography Podcast 6 : Looking at Photographs
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...
History of Photography Podcast 5 : Gordon Parks
Photographer Gordon Parks, born 1912 and died 2006, was one of the most important figures of twentieth century photography. A humanitarian with a deep...
History of Photography Podcast 4 : James Van Der Zee
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....
History of Photography Podcast 3 : The Family of Man
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...
History of Photography Podcast 2 : Lisette Model
Photographer Lisette Model, born in Vienna, Austria in 1901 and died 1983, was an important street photographer of the early 20th century, defining m...
History of Photography Podcast 1 : Photo History 2.0
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...
Photo History – Class 15 – Photograph as Document, Concept as Photograph
The 15th and final class session examines documentary and conceptual photography, looking at the motivation and rationale behind them. We also try to...
Photo History – Class 14 – Szarkowski: How To See
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 S...
Photo History – Class 13 – The Atomic Age and New Frontiers
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 sessio...
Photo History – Class 12 – The Manipulative Impulse
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...
Photo History – Class 11 – Women in Photography
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...
Photo History – Class 10 – Cameras Big and Small
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...
Photo History – Class 9 – Stieglitz and the Photo Secession
One of the great characters in the history of the medium, Alfred Stieglitz was also one of the most influential photographers and promoters of photogr...
Photo History – Class 8 – Muybridge, Marey and the Movies
Stop-motion photography as practiced by Edweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey and others is the topic of this class session. These scientific expe...
Photo History – Class 7 – Stereography and Standard Subjects
A slightly shorter class session, as we cover three smaller topics: 1) the ideas surrounding stereoscopic photography, 2) the way 19th century photogr...
Photo History – Class 6 – Photography and Painting
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 painti...
Photo History – Class 5 – Photography as Transport + On The Road
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...
Photo History – Class 4 – Light and Likeness: Portrait Photography
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 c...
Photo History – Class 3 – History Survey Part 2
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, wh...
Photo History – Class 2 – History Survey Part 1
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...
Photo History – Class 1 – Course Intro & Overview
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 pione...
Photo History – Spring 09 : Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip
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 op...
Photo History Intersession – January 14
The 5th and final Photo History Intersession commemorates the anniversary of the death of 19th century photographer Charles Dodgeson. Dodgeson, better...
Photo History Intersession – January 05
The 4th Photo History Intersession looks at two rather dramatically opposed technical applications of photography: The first X-Ray image, made by Wilh...
Photo History Intersession – January 01
In the third History of Photography Intersession, we look at some interesting events from January first, as we commemorate the birth date of photograp...
Photo History Intersession – December 29
The second “intersession” history of photography podcast commemorates the anniversary of the death of French photographer Robert Demachy, who was acti...
Photo History Intersession – December 20
In the first of a few “intersession” podcasts between the fall and spring semesters, we commemorate the birth date of photojournalist W. Eugene Smith...
Photo History Summer School – August 22
We bring the summer school sessions to a close with a rememberance of the 100th birthday of the great photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson. Henri Car...
Photo History Summer School – July 16
On this date in 1926, National Geographic Magazine published color underwater photographs; a photographic first. This wasn’t the first attempt at unde...
Photo History Summer School – July 7
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...
Photo History Summer School – July 5
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 Ph...
Photo History Summer School – June 8
In this summer school session, we explore two remarkable photographers; the Vietnamese photojournalist Nick Ut whose best-known image was created on t...
Photo History Summer School – May 30
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...
Photo History Summer School – May 25
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 oddl...
Photo History Summer School – May 23
Cornell Capa, the photojournalist and tireless advocate of humanistic photography died today, May 23, 2008. He was 90 years old. A great and committed...