Wet plates

Photography was revolutionized in 151 when Frederick Scott Archer invented the wet plate collodion process for making glass negatives. This new technique was about 20 times faster than previous methods and also free from patent restrictions. Exposures ranged on average from 1 to 3 seconds.



civil war re-enactor explaining about different types of 19th century photography.

Ny Times Slideshow documenting the life and work of upstate NY based artist John Coffer who both lives and produces his photography as if it were the 19th century. (well, minus the whole having a website thing.)

Santiago Mostyn: visiting artist lecture.

Santiago Mostyn will be coming in to our class on Sat. November 7th to do a presentation / lecture about his work. Please feel free to invite anyone and everyone you know. I will get the exact time and room this week.

aasignment #1

Please write an informal one page paper addressing key points made in this excerpt from a Baudelaire essay while also touching upon the work you saw by

Amy Stein



at Clamp Art

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and Simen Johen



at Yosi Milo

Mitch Epstein at Strand Books.

Mitch Epstein : American Power
October 22 07:00PM - 08:00PM
Strand Books
Broadway at 12th street







Epstein's latest project tackles one of the most loaded issues on the nation's agenda: what and who powers America? Between 2003 and 2008, prompted by the evacuation of an environmentally contaminated Ohio town, Epstein traveled the United States to document the country's energy "hot spots," where fossil fuel, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar power are produced, encountering further contaminations, Homeland Security obstacles, corporate invincibility and the occasional token of hope. American Power is Epstein's portrait of early twenty-first-century America, as it clings to past comforts and gropes for a more sensible and sustainable future.

Think long and hard about this.

Hippolyte Bayard "Self Portrait of a Drowned Man" 1840

Welcome

Welcome to the first class of PMPH 470; History of Photography at Pratt Manhattan's Center for Continuing and Professional Studies.

Please check this every so often throughout the week as I will be posting relevant subject matter and exhibitions / videos / etc. that should be of interest to you. Actually, here is the first one:

NY Art Book Fair
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
FREE and open to the public. Going on through Sunday 11 am - 5 pm.

The Fair hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, and independent artist/publishers presenting a diverse range of the best in contemporary art publications.

The fair is not all photography based work, but regardless, it is still really interesting. Unfortunately, we are missing the J&L books presentation by artists such as Jeff Barnett Winsby