Museums and Photographs in the Open-Air

Notably, McCurry’s neat and predictable photographs of India, taken over the course of 40 years, are more popular than Singh’s more realistic, chaotic and exciting images. Cole argues that this popularity is because of McCurry’s portrayal of places and people due to orientalism, based on conventional preconceptions of historical India. They are our colorful fantasies of old India realized on glossy

These are possibly picture frames hung up on a wall. The person looks at their “ancestors” looking down at them. When the speaker says, “Imagine your ancestors the ones you see each day”. I see this as by “ancestors” they are referring to their grandparents who are still alive. This could be just to add more to their story of being a real Indian.

Over the course of 20 years Steven and Mary DeGenaro accumulated a sizeable collection of postmortem portraits from estate sales, auctions and other collectors. Donated by Steve DeGenaro between 2010 and 2012, these images are now a permanent collection of the California Museum of Photography. Postmortem portraiture is the practice of photography of the recently deceased. In the late 19th century postmortem photography became quite popular and remained so throughout the 20th century. The traditions and styles of postmortem photography is the main focus of the exhibit BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Selected photographs for the exhibit were organized and displayed in similar groups and on several walls and in freestanding cases throughout the third floor of the museum. A brief description, name of photographer (if known), date (if known) and print process / format were displayed on the wall and preceded each group of images. AT REST, represents the traditions and compositional styles that were common in early postmortem photographs. OUT OF THE CASE, INTO THE CASKET focuses on the first paper based photographs, in addition to the new styles in composition. PERSONAL DETAILS shows the viewer a group of images with a personal touch and POSTMORTEMS ABROAD depicts images from Latin America and Europe.

When most of us think of the great Indians of the last century, we think of a thin, well-defined figure standing stern and serious. When we think of a modern Indian, we

It is officially one of the most wonderful times of the school year! Many families anticipate spring break once school begins in August. If you find yourself spring breaking in Mobile, Alabama, you will not be lacking in things to do. Mobile has everything from museums, to art, to botanical gardens, and more! Keep reading below on five spring break activities that you can do in Mobile!

Photography plays an important role in reflecting a society. In the article "Looking at discipline, looking at labor", Eric Margolis talks about the representations of the photos of the Indian boarding schools in the US. Photographs are used to demonstrate the civilization of Native America Native American Children. Not only can we see the change of the students after civilization, but also the oppressive system in the Indian School. The photographs are used as the monitoring tool of the government too. The photographs provide us evident to all of these. We can know these by comparing the photos before the Native Indian Kids go to boarding school and after they attend the boarding school. By contrasting the photos from the two periods, we can see that the civilization of the Native American Indian children is actually an oppressive system.

This work is consisted of two sheets self-portraits of Vernon Ah Kee and portraits of his consisting grandfather. Yet another explanation is that Beacon Aboriginal anthropologist recorded image. Profiles and a front view recommendations

The room is cover with black and white photos of the 1930s and 1940s. The lighting of the room felt appropriate to the setting. The photos were place inches away from other photos on the wall. The painting of the wall, which it was gray and baby blue, made the photo have a serious tone to the exhibition. The entrance of the Manzanar exhibit starts off showing the beginning of Japanese immigrating to America. Walking down there a section that shows news articles with hand drawn images of Japanese Imperialism. These drawings were racist and it feud controversy. The rest of the exhibit is photos of Japanese Americans living in internment camps, or suffering prejudge from the public. The best part of the exhibit is the backroom, in which its shows the photos of Ansel Adams. Adams was a popular photographer and he was exposing the condition of the internment camps. People critizes Adams for being a “Japs lover”. This destroy his reputation of being a professional photographer, but his work is later recognize and accepted by in the American Public. One photo that caught my attention was a photo taken by Dorothea

The Freer Dagger, called such because it currently resides in the collection of the Freer Gallery, is an example of the finely crafted arms and armory created in the Islamic world throughout history. (Fig 1) However, despite it taking the form of a weapon, the construction, materials, and decoration of this dagger suggests that it was most likely not used for combat purposes, but instead served primarily as a symbolic accessory, or a form of protective amulet.

Abstract: This essay reflects on the relationship of photographs, history, and memory based on a found and mutilated photo album. Photographs provide opportunities for disrupting and restructuring history with their attraction to memory; they privilege the subjective, creative power of the personal explanation and provide an emotional and even ideological grounding for memory. Photographs as manifestations of memory assist in the process of understanding the present.

I am also excited to be taking this class and learning about the museum basic, however I also believe that it will take a lot more than one class to really learn all we need to know. I which there were more than one class offered. Although, the readings are very interesting and packed with a lot of information, if we read them all. I say this because I struggle with keeping up with the readings on time so I fall behind and when I do catch up I realize how useful the information is. The AAM website and the pamphlet has a great deal of information on the preservation on caring for historic items. I also agree with you that more courses would help, however how do we squeeze them into a two year program. In this case I would say, choose our electives

MoMA’s longstanding exhibition series of recent work in photography, New Photography, returned for its 30th anniversary. The New Photography exhibition is called Ocean of Images and is showing 19 artists and artist collectives from 14 countries. The exhibition was organized by Chief Curator of Photography Quentine Bajac, Lucy Gallun, assistant curator; and Roxana Marcoco,senior curator; with the assistance of Kristen Gaylord, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography ("Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 | MoMA”). According to MoMA’s exhibition description, the Ocean of Images is suppose to be probing the effects of an image-based post-Internet reality by examining various ways of experiencing the world ("Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 | MoMA”). Some artists have created new work specifically for the exhibition including DIS and Katja Notvitskova.

In the second and third photographs of the project titled, Toda Man’s Head and Kulis of the West of India, many of the same problematic assumptions were made by the original photographers. These two photos may not have been taken by the same person, but were published with the same objective of displaying “salvage paradigm” (Tankha). Which is “the attempt to retrieve and collate that which appeared to be dying out” (Tankha). This anthropological term fueled the British empires need to document and study other culture during most of their colonization of India during the 19th century. Often times during this crusade, the native ignorance to outsiders is what led them to be exploited by the photographers, which easily led them to neglect the positionality of the natives themselves. Unlike the first photograph, these man had absolutely no say about how they wanted to be portrayed. Both their original photos were taken to study primitive tribes and document their existence on the benefit of England’s curiosity for distance cultures. In during this, most of these men had no input to the studies intended audients and how they are going to be perceived. Furthermore, being a pieces of evidences in a study where the photographers and authors are trying to prove that there society is century ahead of yours and you are the key that links them together is very portentous of the British. In my opinion if these man had realized the photographers true intension, they would have never

This was actually my first visit to this museum since I have gone to Kennesaw. My expectations were pretty high initially upon going, because I have heard so many things about it from my peers. Just by their opinions, and my love for art I have myself, I was actually excited about going in to take a look. I must say, I was not disappointed by any of the art work I saw in there. I really enjoyed the exhibit of work from some students from a high school around this area. It really shows that the college really supports the youth of the future and their passion for art as a whole.

At first, I didn’t want to go to the museum. That day, I was exhausted after finishing school, so going all the way to San Francisco wasn’t exactly my idea of relaxing. Thankfully, my mom insisted we go that day, since it was my dad’s day off. I felt frustrated that we had to go right then, but my mom forced us.