history of photography

Ansel Adams photos tag sale treasure

2010-07-27T09:34:00.000-07:00

Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million

The photos were from between 1919 and the early 1930’s. Purchased for 45$ at a tag sale in 2000 Rick Norsigian has spent years trying to authenticate his find. Norsigian says “It is my belief that he brought these negatives with him for teaching purposes and to show students how to not let their negatives be engulfed in a fire,”

On the left is a photograph by legendary photographer Ansel Adams, and on the right is a print from one of Rick Norsigian's glass plate negatives, all of which he bought for $45 at a garage sale in Fresno. The images appear to have been taken minutes apart. (Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer)

Rick Norsigian looks through a box containing some of the 61 glass plate negatives he purchased for $45 at a garage sale in Fresno. After much research and talking to experts he believes the negatives are the early work of Ansel Adams from the 1920s. (Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer)

Here is another print from Rick Norsigian's $45 box of glass plate negatives that he thinks is the work of the legendary photographer Ansel Adams. (Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer)

Here is a print from one of the negatives in Rick Norsigian's collection, which he believes is the work of famed photographer Ansel Adams. (Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer)

More of the new found images a nice sample can be found with in teh cnn article found here:
cnn article on the find

dailynews.com article

One new look at Roman Vishniac

2010-04-06T15:12:00.000-07:00

I found this New York times mag article really interesting.
A Closer Reading of Roman Visniac

Photographs by Roman Vishniac, from Mara Vishniac Kohn/International Center of Photography

“JEWISH MAN LOOKING THROUGH IRON DOOR, WARSAW, CIRCA 1935–38” Paired with the picture of the little boy at the right, this was one of Vishniac’s most famous shots. “BOY PLAYING, LODZ, CIRCA 1935–38” New evidence suggests that the two pictures are not connected.

Roger Fenton

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Family of Man

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Camera Works

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Gallery 291

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photograveur

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Edouard Baldus

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Nadar

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Oscar Gustave Rejlander

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ambrotypes

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carte de visite

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Camera Obscura

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Gustave le Gray

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Mary Ellen Mark

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Nikki Lee

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Cindy Sherman

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Sally Mann

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Diane Arbus

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Ilse Bing

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Jeff Wall

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Gregory Crewdson

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Andreas Gursky

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Hiroshi Sugimoto

2008-04-06T19:13:00.001-07:00

Robert and Shana Parkharrison

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Uta Barth

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Hannah Starkey

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Tina Barney

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Nan Goldin

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Cookie in Tin Pan Alley, New York City 1983

Heart-shaped bruise, NYC, 1980 •

• From The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Francesca Woodman

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From Space2 series, Providence, Rhode Island

Bath

Providence, RI, 1975-1978

Richard Avedon

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Joel Meyerowitz

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Red Coat, 5th Avenue, New York City 1975

Porch Lightning, Provincetown, 1977

Red Interior, Provincetown 1977

Joel Sternfeld

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William Eggleston

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Memphis 1965

Jackson, Mississippi

Memphis, Tennessee c. 1972

Bill Owens

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Richie

Responsibility

annual Fourth of July block party

Lee Friedlander

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Mt Rushmore 1969

Lee Friedlander, Boston, 1985, from MIT

PeeWee Marquette and Count Basie,
New York City 1957

Bill Brant

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Hampstead 1952

London 1952

East sussex 1977

Aaron Siskind - American, 1903-1991

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San Luis Potosi 16, 1961

American, Jerome, Arizona, 1949

Chicago 25, 1957

Robert Frank (American [b. Switzerland], b. 1924

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[The Congressional], 1955

The Americans

Trolley–New Orleans,1955-56

Garry Winogrand

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New York 1963

Minneapolis n.d.

Harry Callahan

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Eleanor
Chicago
1947

198 P Chicago 1950

Weegee (Arthur Fellig) American (b. Austria) 1899-1968

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"The picnic's end"
August 18, 1941

[Ambulance attendant tagging corpse] May 1944

[Car crash] ca. 1941

Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004

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Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, 1932

The Berlin Wall, 1963

Henri Matisse, 1944

Brassai (Gyula Halasz)

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Bijou" of the Montmartre cabarets
From "Paris by Night" 1933

"House of illusion" From
"Paris by Night"
1933

Oldest police station in ParisFrom "Paris by Night"
1933

André Kertész

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Chez Mondrian,
1926

Fork, Paris 1928

Under the Eiffel Tower, 1929

Eugene Atget, French 1857-1927

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Avenue des Gobelins 1925

Avenue de l'Observatoire 1926

Bar de Cabaret1910-11 / printed

1950’s by Berenice Abbott from Atget's negative

Dorothea Lange

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White Angel Bread Line 1932

Migrant Mother; Nipomo, California 1936

evacuees of Japanese descent were inoculated

Margaret Bourke-White

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Diversion Tunnels, Fort Peck Dam 1936

Bread Line during the Louisville flood, Kentucky 1937

Dr. Kurt Lisso, Leipzig's city treasurer,
and his wife and daughter after taking poison
to avoid surrender to U.S. troops, Leipzig
1945

Russell Lee

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Tenant farmer, near Warner, Oklahoma
Date: June 1939

Three members of ladies quintette at community sing,
Date: June 1940 Pie Town, New Mexico

Two agricultural day laborers eating dinner
after spending the morning chopping cotton.
Beans are the staple fare of these workers, near
Webber, Oklahoma Date: June 1939

Walker Evans

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Graveyard, Houses, and Steel Mill,
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1935

Negro Church,
South Carolina 1936

Garage in Southern City Outskirts 1936

Berenice Abbott

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Bread Store, 259 Bleecker Street
c. 1935-39

Broadway and Exchange Place
c. 1935-39

William Goldberg c. 1935-39

August Sander

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1913

Westerwald, 1926 – 1927

1929

Jacob Riis

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Home of an Italian Ragpicker
1888

Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street c. 1889

Bandit's Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street c. 1888

Lewis W. Hine American (1874-1940)

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Newsie in snow Pathos

Some of the so-called "helpers" in a Georgia cotton mill
ca. 1909

Girl worker in Carolina Cotton Mill 1908

Paul Strand

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Wall Street New York 1915

Fifth Avenue
New York
1915

Lathe No. 3, Akeley Shop, New York 1923

Man Ray American (1890-1976)

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Rayograph
ca. 1925

ambivalence of the senses

Le violon d’Ingres, 1924

f/64

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Edward WestonPepper, 1930

Shell, 1927

Nude, 1923

Imogen Cunningham American (1883-1976)

photo secession, 291

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Edward Steichen
American, 1879 – 1973

The Flatiron 1905

Cyclamen Mrs Philip Lydig,
1913

George Washington Bridge,
NYC, 1931

Alfred Stieglitz, American 1864-1946

Spring Showers

Steerage 1907

Equivalent 1930

Georgia O'Keeffe 1919

american west

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Edward Curtis (1868-1952)

Apache camp

Tenokai – Apache

Apache maiden

Carleton Eugene Watkins (1829-1916)

Yosemite Falls and the Merced River.
Yosemite National Park
1861

Central Pacific Railroad Train and coaches in Yosemite Valley

Late George Cling Peaches, c. 1887-1888

cival war

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O'Sullivan, Timothy H. American (b. Ireland, 1840-1882)

Trossell's House, Battle-Field of Gettysburg

Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862

Mathew Brady
American (1823-1896)

General Ulysses S. Grant and Staff

Ruins of Richmond, VA

Portrait of Lincoln 1860

cameron and emerson

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Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856-1936)
“Naturalistic Photography”

Gathering Waterlilies, 1886

Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff, 1886, Platinum prin

Snipe-Shooting from Life and Landscape
Photogravure on the Norfolk Broads (London, 1886).

Julia Margaret Cameron The Gardeners Daughter 1867

J.F.W. Herschel,: J.M. Cameron, 1867

Beatrice 1866

week one, the early days

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portable camera obscura

One of the first commercially made daguerreotype cameras that was made in 1839. It was designed by Mr. Daguerre

1/9th plate (actual size 2 5/8" x 3 1/4") is a very early Daguerreotype from the mid 1840s.

William Henry Fox Talbot 1835 Talbot made pictures on his argentic chloride sodden photosensitive paper with the help of a camera obscura. The first picture he made was of a barred window in his house. The exposure took about an hour.

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course syllabus

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History of photography
Instructor. Rachel Loischild M.F.A.

A History of Photography
for Photographers

This course will be an introduction to the history of photography. While we will cover photography’s origins, the course will focus mainly on the photographers and the art movement‘s of the 20th century.

Course objectives-
- to expose you, as artists and photographers, to a wide range of photographers, photographs, and photographic movements
- to help, and inspire, the creative process.
- to assist you in becoming a well informed artist so that when a photographer is mentioned you will know who is being talked about, why he or she is considered important, and to also be able to place him or her into an historical context.
- to help you in your development of research skills.

Course text:
- A World History of Photography, 3rd Edition
by Naomi Rosenblum
Supplemental readings from:
- Photography in Print edited by Vicki Goldberg
- The Photo Book - to be used as a quick reference

Readings - the reading load for this class is heavy –
Do your best- set aside several hours each week just for reading, try not to get frustrated give your self up to two full hours for each chapter in world history of photography (WHOP). Your grade will be based, in part, on your preparedness to discuss the photographs, photographers, and art movements you read about before each class session. What does this mean in a concrete way – do the best you can, take some notes about your thoughts on the readings - come to class with at least one question and one comment. If you are the type of person who has trouble speaking up in class, it may be helpful to have your comments on a piece of paper so you can simply read them to the class.

Course policies:
-no late work will be accepted
-after three absences your grade will be reduced by a full letter for each absence
- if you choose to not complete any one of the four main components of this class it will be an automatic F
-Plagiarism will not be tolerated – Remember: If you download a paper or in any way use someone else’s work as your own you will fail the class.

Grading will be determined in four parts:
20% class participation
25% binder
40% research projects
20% final exam

A (93-100)
A- (90-92) Excellent to Very Good; comprehensive knowledge and understanding of subject matter; marked perception and/or originality
B+ (87-89)
B (83-86)
B- (80-82) Good; moderately broad knowledge and understanding of subject matter; noticeable perception and/or originality
C+ (77-79)
C (73-76)
C- (70-72) Satisfactory; reasonable knowledge and understanding of subject matter; some perception and/or originality
D (60-69) Marginal; minimum of knowledge and understanding of subject matter; limited perception and/or originality
F (<60) Failing; unacceptable low level of knowledge and understanding of subject matter; severely limited perception and/or originality; absences in excess of allowable limit

The four components
Class participation –
it is necessary to have lively discussion in this class or every one will fall asleep!! In addition discussing a subject helps to internalize information- so how do you insure that you will complete this course requirement- attend class, join each discussion with a question or comment – be actively engaged in the class.

Binder-
Each week a number of photographers are listed in this syllabus you should research each of them printing out one article per photographer. Organize your binder by week and photographer using tabs. I will be checking that your binder is complete at the midterm and at the final. – to get credit for your binder it must be well organized and complete with each photographer listed.

Research Papers-
This is an in-depth research paper in which you will investigate the style, technique and relevance of a photographer or photographic movement. Length 6- 10 pages. ---- Two such papers will be assigned.

Final exam
The final exam will be a review of each photographer we have discussed in class. It will focus on photo id’s, but also include short essay questions designed to allow you to demonstrate your vast knowledge of the subject.

Course Calendar

Week 1
Introduction – overview of class, review syllabus, expectations, books – readings, and assignments.
- basic origins of photography
- camera obsceura
- 1839- daguerreotypes- Louis- Jacques Daguerre , Calotypes – William Henry Fox Talbot

Week 2
Pictorialists and early portraits –
Julia Margaret Cameron, Peter Henry Emerson.
Readings: WHOP pg 14- 93 (chapt 1- The early years and 2 - A plenitude of portraits.)
WHOP pg 208 – 243 (Chapter 5 - Photography and Art)

Week 3
Landscape & early war photos
Mathew Brady, Timothy O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins
Reading WHOP 94- 207 (chapters 3- Documentation: landscape and architecture and 4 - Documentation: objects and events)

Week 4
Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen
Readings: WHOP pages 244-339 (chapters 6 and 7)
PIP pgs 214-217
PIP pg 271 - 272
PIP pg 291 – 292

Week 5
Lewis Hine, Jacob Riis, August Sander, Bernice Abbott
Farm Security Administration
- Dorothea Lange , Walker Evans, Margaret Bourke-White
Readings: WHOP pg 340 –391 (Ch. 8 Documentation: the social scene),
PIP 349-354,
PIP 355-358 ,
PIP 238-253
Week 6
Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Paul Strand
Reading WHOP pg392 –461 (chapter 9 Art photography and modernism),
PIP 377-380,
PIP 303-318,
PIP 267-270

Week 7
Andre Kertesz, , Eugene Atget, Brassai, Mann Ray
Reading: PIP 420- 421,
PIP 254-258
First Research project due!

Week 8
Richard Avedon, Weegee, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ilse Bing
Reading – WHOP pg 462-515 (chapter 10 words and pictures in print media), PIP 402-403,
PIP404-419,
PIP 431,
PIP 384- 386

Week 9
Harry Callahan, Lee Friedlander Garry Winogrand, Robert Frank, Aaron Siskind, Bill Brandt
Reading WHOP pg 516-567 (chapter 11 - photography since 1950 the straight image),
PIP 400- 401,
PIP 422-430,
PIP 492-498

Week 10
William Eggleston, Joel Sternfeld, Joel Meyerowitz, Bill Owens
Reading WHOP pg 568 (chapter 12 photography since 1950 - manipulations and color)

Week 11
Mary Ellen Mark, Francesca Woodman, Nan Golden, Elinor Carucci
Reading:
PIP 474-479
Second research project due!

Week 12
Diane Arbus , Sally Mann, Cindy Sherman,

Week 13
Uta Barth, Tina Barney, Hannah Starkey, Nikki Lee

Week 14
Shana &Robert ParkeHarrison, Hiroshi sugimoto, Andreas Gursky, Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Wall

Week 15 - Final EXAM !!!