The
textbook is available at the COD Bookstore or at Amazon
Below... A
set of web links that you should find useful for this course.
I've loosely grouped these links into categories, accessible via this pop-up
menu, which will zip you down the page to the right spot for that group:
Common
Errors in English - A big page of commonly mis-used, misspelled
or otherwise mangled English words. And yes, I do consider the quality
of your writing when I evaluate your work.
Artists and Alchemists - "In this digital age, a growing number of artists are reviving 19th century techniques to create modern photographs.
Artists & Alchemists is a feature length documentary that follows ten contemporary and renowned photographers employing antiquated photographic processes."
Six
Degrees Game - OK, so this isn't really a "timeline,"
but it's pretty cool. From PBS comes a game where you can see the connections
(or "six degrees of separation) between great "American Masters." Find
out how Alfred Stieglitz is connected to Ray Charles.
Google Books Ngram Viewer - Search the Google Books library for words or strings of words. This link takes you to a search for "photography" but try out " collodion" and "Daguerreotype" and other words from the medium's history and see how a word's useage changed over time.
Graphics Atlas -
A neat interactive tool to help you identify various types of photographic
processes
SepiaTown - A very fun resource: find a spot on a map and see historical photos of that place. Like Google Street View of the past
George
Eastman House - The Eastman House is an important museum of photography
in Rochester, New York
Vernacular
Photography - A pretty ugly site, but with some great images
from the vast quantity of "unknown" photographers
The Mexican Suitcase - A great site from the ICP about Robert Capa's "lost" images
The
Music of the Cane - A really nice essay by Gene Beyt.. subtitled,
"
On Considering Repetition in Photography." Part of the great-looking quotidian blog
Graphics Atlas - Graphics Atlas is an online resource that brings sophisticated print identification to archivists, curators, historians collectors, students and educators
Photography Database - provides basic factual information
about photographers, public photographic collections, commercial galleries, photographic exhibitions, and citations to the
many published sources used to compile biographical, collections, and exhibitions data. The scope is international; the
time frame is from the beginnings of photography to contemporary.
photographer's obituaries, new and expanding collections, exhibitions, galleries, reviews, catalogs, and reference literature.
Lost And
Found Photos - Todd Wemmer's project on oral and written histories
of photographs that were once lost and now are found... or were found
but now are lost... really, it's about how we interact with photographs
of our own past. It's about history. Contribute a story...
Gregory Crewdson - A contemporary photographer, given a royal treatment
on a website by Aperture
Japan Exposures - A great site about Japanese photography. The site
publisher is interested in publishing student papers about Japanese photography.
If one of your papers is about a Japanese photographer, see me for more
information
The Secret
Musum of Mankind - Described as: Cannibals. Fakirs. Crime and punishment.
Rituals. Slaves, cults and customs. Warriors and weapons. Equestrians
and equilibrists. Musicians and mendicants. Dance, dress, undress and
body modification. Structures, conveyances, beasts, and more breasts
than you can shake a stick at!
Camera
Obscura - In the dark about the camera obscura? Get exposed to
its nuances here
Abeldaro
Morell - A contemporary photographer who uses the camera obscura
Vermeer's
Camera - An interesting support site for a book of the same name;
see how the artist who painted "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" used
the camera to help him draw
Optical
Allusions - An article about artist David Hockney's claims regarding
optical devices in early paintings
The
Looking Glass - Another article (this one from the New Yorker)
about Hockney's research into optical drawing methods
Niepce's
Image - Another good article about Niepce's first photograph
Henry
Ransom Center & First Photograph - Niepce's first photograph
is housed at the Ransom center in Austin, TX. If you like mystery stories,
you'll love the account of how it was found and why it's in Texas.
Ansel
Adams at 100 - A well-written article from The Atlantic Monthly
magazine (hence the well-written part) about the Adams exhibition
of the same name
Ansel
Adams at 100 - A site from the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art; lots of pictures and info
The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter
Benjamin's seminal essay, filled with great, sprawling concepts
that are as relevent in today's digital age as they were during
Benjamin's Marxist time
Shpilman Institute of Photography Blog - The SIP is a research institute that aspires to facilitate, promote, initiate research, open debate and creative work in the field of photography and related media
Conscientious -
a weblog about fine-art photography (and more)
Syllabus
for this course (pdf in a new page) 
Podcasts of
lectures, lecture presentation slides & Handouts (new page)
Blackboard
- Assignments and Course Management (new page)
Using
Technology in this Course (pdf in a new page)
The
textbook is available at the COD Bookstore or at Amazon
A
set of web links that you should find useful for this course.