Photo 1 Lecture 11

The Question of Art

Eadward Muybridge. Buffalo Gallop. 1887.
http://mfleisig.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/muybridge_buffalo.jpg

Quiz #2 will available on moodle Friday, September 23 and must be completed by 11:55 pm on Tuesday, September 27

Was Mathew Brady's effort to document the Civil War a profitable venture?
Timothy O' Sullivan. A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg. 1863. http://www.geh.org/ne/str092/m198100040036.jpg	1869 Mathew Brady petitiond the U.S. government to purchase his archive for $125,000
	After the government refused the purchase, Brady went bankrupt and had to sell his portrait studio

	In 1875 the government paid Brady $27,840
	Brady died in the charity ward of Presbyterian Hospital in NY

	Gardner also petitioned the government to buy his archive of negatives and was rejected
	90,000 of Gardner's glass plate negatives were scrapped for the glass and silver

Manifest Destiny and the Western Frontier
Manifest Destiny = the duty and the right of the United States to expand its territory and influence throughout North America	John Gast. American Progress. c. 1872. http://staffweb.brownsburg.k12.in.us/~emsteam82/tutin/Manifest%20Destiny%20Webquest/pics/westwardho.jpg

Mountain of the Holy Cross

William Henry Jackson. The Mountain of the Holy Cross. 1873.
http://www.isu.edu/~wattron/OLJackson3.html


William Henry Jackson. The Beehive Group of Geysers,Yellowstone Park. 1872. Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1982.	Geysers on the Yellowstone Reservation. Drawn from photographs by William Henry Jackson. From the Illustrated Christian Weekly, November 30, 1872. Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1982.

Photographer Unknown. Cutting on the Forty-Ninth Parallel. 1860-61.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

Alexander Gardner. “Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way.” c. 1869.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

Trestle Work

Andrew J. Russell. Trestle Work, Promontory Point, Salt Lake Valley. c. 1868-69. Albumen silver print.
http://www.mcmahanphoto.com/lc2060--promontory-point-railroad-train-bridge-1868-photo.html

Meeting of the Rails

Andrew J. Russell. Meeting of the Rails, Promontory Point, Utah. 1869. Albumen print.
Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1982.

The Western Landscape

Mt. Broderick

Carlton E. Watkins. Mt. Broderick, Yosemite. 1861. Albumen silver print. 16 X 21.
SFMOMA. Picturing Modernity. San Francisco: SFMOMA, 1998.

William Henry Jackson using mammoth plate camera

William Henry Jackson using a mammoth plate camera
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phsne/3084881014/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Carlton E. watkins. Three Brothers. c. 1861. Albumen silver print.
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb307/cdo908/carleton%20e%20watkins/09986v-1.jpg

contemporary shot of the Three Brothers

Cathedral Rock

Carleton E. Watkins. Cathedral Rock. c. 1866. Albumen print.
Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abbeville Press, New York. 1989.

Yosemite Falls

Carlton E. Watkins. Yosemite Falls. c. 1866. Albumen print.
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb307/cdo908/carleton%20e%20watkins/10002v-1.jpg

Carlton E. Watkins. From the Best General View,” Mariposa Trail. c. 1865-66.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

Timothy O'Sullivan. Sand Dunes, Carson Desert. c. 1868.
http://www.nevadaobserver.com/Timothy%20O'Sullivan%20Expedition%201867-1868/Carson%20Sink/77-ks-1-39%20Sand%20Dunes_%20Carson%20Desert.jpg

Timothy O' Sullivan. Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelle, New Mexico. 1873. Albumen print.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/3020317790_1765c988fe.jpg


Carleton E. Watkins. Three Brothers. c. 1861. Albumen print.	Timothy O' Sullivan. Shoshone Falls, Idaho. 1868. http://www.flickr.com/photos/trialsanderrors/3061661059/

Clouds, Rest Valley of the Yosemite

Eadweard Muybridge. Clouds, Rest, Valley of the Yosemite. c. 1870.
http://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/-Cloud-s-Rest--Valley-of-the-Yosemite--N/84A36869F8CCC389

sky shade = shutterlike device invented by Muybridge to block the amount of blue light reaching the plate, thereby minimizing the overexposure of sky in the photograph

Hayden Survey Team

William Henry Jackson. Members of the Hayden Survey Team. 1870. Albumen print.
Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abbeville Press, New York. 1989.

Yellowstone River

William Henry Jackson. Yellowstone River, Above the Falls. 1871. Albumen print. 6 3/4" x 8 7/8.”
http://www.leegallery.com/Jackson_exhibit.html

Learning Communities

Albumen Paper	Heliograph

Ambrotype	Salted Paper

Carte-De-Visite	Stereo Card

Chronophotograph	Tin Type

Daguerreotype	Wet Plate

Types of Questions:

- Multiple Choice

- Image identification (title, artist, date)

- True or False

- Fill in the Blank

* If your group is unable to complete 10 questions and answers by the end of class, communities may submit questions to the instrctor's mailbox in CAA 302 or by email by Friday, September 23. If submitting via email, please type the questions into the body of the message - Do NOT attach - and remember to include the names of ALL of your group members!