Tour: Photography Collection

Tour: Photography Collection

All Photography students should make plans to attend this Tour at the Portland Art Museum:
We will be meeting inside at the member's entrance at 5:45pm. Bring a small notebook and pencil. Laptop bags and large backpacks are not allowed and must be checked in.
It is FREE if you have your student museum membership: it costs $10 for the academic year, forms are avail at the membership counter - allow an extra 20 - 30 minutes to fill it out and get it processed.


Docent tour of the Photography Collection
Thursday, January 28
6:00 P - 7:00 P

Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.

Tours are free for Members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.

Beyond Place: Recent Photography Acquisitions:

Beyond Place: Recent Photography Acquisitions:
Beyond Place: Recent Photography Acquisitions
DEC 5, 2009 – MAR 14, 2010

Beyond Place: Recent Photography Acquisitions explores place as a subject in photographs by an international roster of artists. The selected works are mostly free of the human figure and focus instead on the power of the photograph to imaginatively transport the viewer, to inspire emotional musings, and to reveal the unknown.

panorama planets

check it out here

atta kim - new book

go to see images here

Panographies

go to the 'how to' here

Cool stuff - stand in one place, take a lot of shots - don't leave any holes - get the boring stuff too! - and assemble!

women of the photo league

site here
From 1936 through 1951, the Photo League offered classes, exhibitions, lectures, and
friendship to New Yorkers united by an interest in photography and, as Erika Stone recalled, an
idealistic desire to “make the world a better place.” Teachers such as Paul Strand, Aaron
Siskind and Sid Grossman insisted that strong documents also had to be excellent pictures, a
philosophy nurtured by lecturers Beaumont Newhall, Ansel Adams, and W. Eugene Smith. At
the Photo League, professionals and amateurs alike joined to use the darkroom and enjoyed
lively discussions at every gathering. Their monthly journal, Photo Notes, was filled with gossip
and jokes along with serious criticism and reviews. The League sponsored exhibitions when no
museum (including MoMA) had galleries devoted to photography.

In 1947, the Photo League appeared on a long list of organizations identified with the
Communist Party. Efforts to counter the allegation included a large exhibition, This Is the Photo
League, with photographs by members and supporters such as Rudy Burckhardt, Nancy
Newhall, and Lisette Model. But in 1949, Angela Calomiris, a League member and F.B.I.
informant, publicly testified that members of the organization were Communist. The League
disbanded in 1951, a casualty of the Red Scare.

wide angle pinhole pics

- from make magazine