Tony Northrup's photography DVD: how to master composition & quick tips by Tony Northrup
Call Number: DVD TR267.T66 2013
Publication Date: 2013
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tea&bannock a collective blog by indigenous women photographersCo-created by Tenille K. Campbell and Joi T. Arcand, tea&bannock is a collective blog featuring work by a group of Indigenous women photographers, currently nine members, who live all across Canada. Some of the most recent photo essays discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous people. For example, "Papa's Girl," posted May 18, 2020 by Tenille Campbell, examines the relationship between her daughter and her father and other family members, in light of their being separated due to the pandemic. Another example is Leslee Merasty's May 12,2020 post "the slow down" about returning with her daughter to her family home in Edmonton when unable to find work or daycare during the pandemic. There are also posts by guest bloggers, like a recent entry titled "Medicine and Magic" by Tiffany Wolfe, a Navajo/Ogalala Lakota artist. In addition to viewing posts by recency on the Home page, readers can scroll to the bottom of the page to filter posts by category or archived month (from 2016 to present).
Cambridge in ColourFor beginning photographers, the transition to a DSLR camera from a simple point-and-shoot or smartphone often comes with a steep learning curve. One resource that can help remedy this is Cambridge in Colour. Here, readers will find an extensive collection of free tutorials and tools created to help new digital photographers learn the ins and outs of this craft. While there are many photography blogs online, Cambridge in Colour strives to provide more permanent, reference-style content that readers can continue to benefit from time and again. Toward this end, its well-organized tutorials typically focus more on concept than procedure, are highly visual and often interactive, and cover each topic thoroughly but concisely, while also aiming to remain as independent of the type of camera or software as possible. A selection of tutorials highlighted as photography essentials, as well as recent additions, are featured on the main page, while the full list of tutorials, links to various calculator tools, and the Cambridge in Colour forums can all be easily located through the sites menu. Cambridge in Colour was founded in 2005 by Sean McHugh, a chemical engineer by training who launched the site while pursuing his PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Camera and LocomotiveFrom the Library of Congress (LOC) comes Camera and Locomotive, an interactive story map that explores how "[t]wo defining technologies of nineteenth-century America - railroads and photography - developed largely in parallel and brought about drastic changes in how people understood time and space." Organized into seven chapters plus an introduction, the story map begins in the 1860s with an overview of the construction of transcontinental rail lines connecting Omaha and Sacramento, a feat that was documented by three photographers (Andrew Joseph Russell, John Carbutt, and Alfred A. Hart) whose work became an influential part of the Manifest Destiny narrative. Next, the story explains some of the ideas and events that set this ambitious plan into motion before delving into the biographies of each photographer and their work in turn. This engaging story map incorporates numerous historical photos and images from the LOC's vast holdings, and those interested can follow links back to each item's entry in the LOC's digital collections. Camera and Locomotive was created by Micah Messenheimer, an associate curator of photography in the LOC's Prints & Photographs Division.
DaguerreobaseReaders interested in early photography may enjoy Daguerreobase, where visitors can explore more than 16,000 daguerreotypes held by museums and in private collections all over Europe. This vast database can be searched by keyword and filtered by fields such as date and name of the specific collection where the daguerreotypes are held, such as Det Nationale Fotomuseum in Denmark. Readers may also be interested Daguerreobase's free 70-page ebook (found in the About Daguerreobase section) which explains the project and gives background information about the history and technique of daguerreotype photography. In addition to being a place to view daguerreotypes, Daguerreobase is a "collective cataloguing tool for daguerreotypes" that allows individuals, as well as organizations, to "edit and store records of individual daguerreotypes and establish relations to other records based on a wide range of characteristics." The records for individual daguerreotypes can be highly detailed and may contain metadata on the daguerreotype itself, as well as on its housing and gallery information. At the time of this writing, Daguerreobase is a collaborative project between seventeen partners in thirteen European countries.
Lens: Photography, Video, and Visual JournalismFounded by The New York Times senior staff photographer James Estrin, the Times's Lens Blog is dedicated to the newspaper's "photography, video, and visual journalism." Here, visitors will find powerful photographs and documentary footage about a wide variety of subjects from around the world. More than just a collection of images, this blog is designed to add context to photography and photojournalism. For example, one recent entry features photographs recently taken by multimedia artist Larry Towell of individuals at Standing Rock, North Dakota accompanied by an essay by Estrin about Towell's work. Another recent entry, authored by the Times's David Gonzales, discusses the work of Andrew Lichtenstein, whose work is featured in the upcoming book Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory. Another highlight of this blog is The Week in Pictures slideshow of photos featured in The New York Times each week, accompanied by links to related news stories.
Lyonel Feininger: PhotographsBased on the approximately five hundred prints in the collection of Harvard's Houghton Library, as well as negatives and slides from the Harvard Art Museum's Lyonel Feininger Archive, this website allows visitors to search and browse hundreds of Feininger's photographs created over a period of fifty years. The types of material range from early family snapshots to color slides from the 1940s and '50s. There's also a chronology of Feininger's life from 1871-1956 and a bibliography with links to other exhibitions at Harvard. Feininger's photographic subjects are accompanied by short descriptive summaries. For example, the summary for Bauhaus explains how Feininger first began photographing with artistic intent in 1928 while a master at the Bauhaus. Additionally, there are photographs of the Baltic seacoast where Feininger spent parts of his summers beginning in 1892 and photographs that highlight his persistent interest in photographing shop windows, which began in Weimar Germany and continued in New York City and San Francisco.
Photographs 1935-1945 sponsored by the US Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information.
Photography as a Social PracticeFounded by Eliza Gregory, Mark Strandquist, and Gemma-Rose Turnbull, Photography as a Social Practice "serves as an archive of research and conversations around photography as a social practice." Materials on the site include links to and coverage of allied projects, interviews with practitioners, and original writing on contemporary photography through the lenses of ethics, representation, power dynamics, and social justice. An example of a project is Let Us Eat Cake, showcasing collaborative work by artist Anthony Luvera and a group of seven LGBTQ+ people documenting queer communities in Northern Ireland. In the interviews section, there's a recent conversation with Dutch photographer Ben Krewickel, whose 2013 book A Possible Life, tells the story of an undocumented immigrant. Finally, the resources section of the site provides listings of events, degree programs, grants, and fellowships, along with reading lists, quotes, and questions.
Stanley B. Burns, MD TintypesThe University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center (HRC) has a wealth of collections related to the history of photography, many of which are now available online, including the Stanley B. Burns, MD Tintypes Collection. Dr. Stanley B. Burns, who donated the collection to HRC, is a New York City ophthalmologist who began collecting historical photographs in 1975 and established the Burns Archive in 1977. The 121 tintypes, primarily portraits, in the collection at HRC are unique in several ways. First, the images are exceptionally large; the most common size in tintypes is the one sixth plate, or 2.75 x 3.25 inches; many of the Burns collection images are imperial or mammoth plates, larger than 6.5 x 8.75 inches. In addition, the tintypes are hand-colored and are in period frames. For example, a portrait of the 20th U.S. President, James Abraham Garfield has an image size of about 12 x 9.75 inches, with painted skin tone and background, and is in an ornate frame, characterized as Barbizon School. Including this frame, entire piece measures 22.5 x 20.5 inches. Visitors to the site can browse the entire HRC, with options to filter by photography format, subject, date, and frame style.
Through the Photographer's Eyes: The Diana Mara Henry CollectionPhotographer and photojournalist Diana Mara Henry documented many of the outstanding events of the late twentieth century in the US, from Vietnam War protests and the women's rights movement to the 1972 Democratic National Convention, as well as portraits of many prominent people, including politicians, musicians, activists, and artists. In the 1980s, Henry purchased 100 acres of land near Esopus Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, and began investigating food issues and the Permaculture Movement. Special Collections at the University of Massachusetts Amherst presents this web exhibition showcasing photographs and documents from their Diana Mara Henry Collection, such as Henry's press passes, articles, and reading lists for courses she took. Visitors to this site will also find information (all accompanied by photographs) about Henry's early and professional life, photographic assignments during political movements in New York City, and Henry's involvement in social movements throughout the 1970s and 80s.
Unequal ScenesIn Unequal Scenes, American photographer Johnny Miller uses a drone to capture remarkable aerial images highlighting the dramatic and often startling disparities between rich and poor neighborhoods existing side by side. Miller began this project in 2016 in South Africa, inspired by his time there as an anthropology student. As of this writing, Unequal Scenes has expanded to include images from Mumbai, Nairobi, Mexico City, Tanzania, and the United States. In addition to Miller's photographs, which are organized by location and feature scenes such as one in Mumbai where luxurious high-rise apartment buildings are immediately adjacent to a sprawling, chaotic slum, Unequal Scenes also includes Miller's written explanations giving context to what the images show. Unequal Scenes has received numerous awards, such as first place in the Nature and Environment category at the 2017 Istanbul Photo Awards, and it has also been featured in photography exhibitions in Johannesburg, London, Sydney, and Santa Fe, among other cities.
Catching Lightning With PhotographyThe history of photographing lightning really starts with the history of photography. The invention of photography was announced in 1839 in Paris; the photograph that was produced was called the Daguerreotype, named after Louis Daguerre. It was several years later before the first lightning photograph was made, and several decades would pass before there was the first successful efforts to photograph lightning for the purpose of science.
