ch.4: imaging of the social world
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PHOT 154, History of Photography, Grossmont College, War and Photography, Roger Fenton, Matthew Brady, Civil War, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O' Sullivan, Survey Photography, westward expansion, preservation of the wilderness, William Henry Jackson, Yelllowstone, Yosemite, Eadward MuybridgeTRANSCRIPT
Timothy O’Sullivan, Ancient Ruins, Canyon de Chelly, 1873
Improvements in communications and transportation during the 19th century narrowed distances between people.
• Took away a sense of isolation.• People felt more connected to the world. They wanted more information
about the world outside their village community.• Seeing was equated with knowing.• The more people saw, the more they felt they possessed knowledge of
the world.• The photograph fulfilled a desire for knowledge.
War coverage did not becaome feasible until the collodion - wet plate- era.
The Crimean War (1853-56) was the first major conflict to be covered by newspaper reporters, artists and photographers.
• Roger Fention was commissioned to photograph the war,• The British government wanted photographic evidence which would deny reports
of the inefficiency of British military.
Fenton, Ordinance Wharf at Balaclava Harbor, 1855
Fenton, Crimean War Officers, 1855
Fenton, British Officer at Ease, 1855
Fenton, Still Ife, 1840
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Fenton, Sir William Russell, 1855
Fenton, Cookhouse, 1855
Fenton, A Quiet Day at the Mortar Battery, 1855
Fenton, Hardships of Camp Life, 1855
Fenton, Nurse (Florence Nightingale) and Wounded Man, 1855
Fenton, Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855
The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861. The war lasted 4 years and saw 2.9 million men in uniform, and produced over 1 million casualties.
Portrait of Matthew Brady
Brady’s What is it? Wagon
Brady, Back View of Col. Bensen’s Headquarters
Bull Run River With Destroyed Bridge
Brady, Dead Rebel Soldier stereo card
Brady, Front View of the Washington Arsenal
Brady, Confederate Dead
Brady, Portrait of Lincoln, 1863
Brady, Portrait of Lincoln, used for U.S. penny.
Brady, Portrait of General Custer,1875.
Alexander Gardner, Breaking Camp.
Gardner, Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter, 1863.
Gardner, Lincoln on the Battlefield, October, 1863.
Gardner, Lewis Payne, from the Lincoln Conspiracy Album, 1865.
Gardner, George A. Atzerodt, from the Lincoln Conspiracy Album, 1865.
Gardner, Execution Site, from Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators, July 7,1865.
Gardner, The Four Condemned Conspirators, from Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators, July 7,1865.
Gardner, Adjusting the Rope, from Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators, July 7,1865.
Gardner, General Reading Death Warrant to Conspirators, from Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators, July 7,1865.
Gardner, The Hanging, including Mary Sarratt, the first woman to be executed by the U.S. government,, July 7,1865.
Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, July,1863.
O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, as seen in Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War,1865-66.
O’Sullivan, Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, 1867.
O’Sullivan, Canyon de Chelly, New Mexico, 1873.
O’Sullivan, Walls of the Canyon, New Mexico, 1873.
O’Sullivan, New Mexico, 1873.
O’Sullivan, Sioux Springs Marsh, Nevada, 1875.
William Henry Jackson, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1883.
Jackson, Twin Lakes, 1883.
Members of the Hayden Survey Team, 1878.
Jackson with camera, Suni Pueblo, NM, ND.
Jackson, Geyser, Yellowstone.
Jackson, Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, AZ.
Jackson with field equipment
Jackson at work
Jackson, Sandstone Monuments
Jackson, Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone
Jackson, Niagra Falls, NY, 1890.
George N. Barnard, Burning Mills,Oswego, NY, 1890.
Barnard, City of Atlanta, 1860s.
Barnard, Rebel Works, Atlanta 1860s.
Barnard, Rebel Works, 1860s.
Andrew Joseph Russell, Stone Wall With Rebel Dead, 1860s.
Russell, Construction of the RR at Green River, WY, 1867-68.
Russell, Meeting of the Rails-the Union and Central Pacific, Utah, 1869.
Manuel Leutze, Westward, the Course of Empire Takes its’ Way, oil on canvas 1861.
Russell, Hanging Rock, Echo Canyon, Nevada, 1867.
Russell, Skull Rock, Dale Creek, Wyoming, 1867.
Carlton E. Watkins, Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail,1860s.
Watkins, Mount Broderick & Nevada Fall,1863.
Eadward Muybridge, Water Asleep, Mirror Lake, Yosemite, 1863.
Muybridge, Cloud’s Nest, Yosemite, 1872.
Muybridge, The Sentinel, Yosemite, 1872.
Muybridge, Yosemite, 1872.