Rephotographic Survey Project Following Footsteps of the First Photographers, Part Two One of the re-photographers doing “repeat photography” of the western territories, Rick DIngus (1951-), said “For the Rephotographic Survey Project, I was most...
Rephotographic Survey Project Following Footsteps of the First Photographers The idea of re-photographing the already photographed was not exactly a new one in the 1970s as evidenced by the re-photographing of Canyon de Chelly by Ansel Adams who stood in the shoes of...
Timothy O’Sullivan: Exploring the West Part Two For decades the work of the nineteenth century photographer, Timothy O’Sullivan had been relegated to government archives and he was remembered, it at all, as one of the “operatives” of Matthew...
Timothy O’Sullivan: Exploring the West Part One In retrospect, it is something of an oddity that twenty-one year old Timothy O’Sullivan was not drafted into the ranks of the Union Army for the American Civil War. After all many young Irishmen, fresh to the...
PHOTOGRAPHY AS CONCEPT Landscape and Idea The leading edges of Postmodernism were architecture and photography and film, all of which moved away from Modernism in the sixties. By the eighties, the shifts seen in these mediums would be characterized as...