History of Photography Podcast

Welcome to the History of Photography Podcast 2.0! Having retired from my college teaching job, I’m no longer teaching t... Read more

Cornell Capa, the photojournalist and tireless advocate of humanistic photography died today, May 23, 2008. He was 90 ye... Read more

In today’s May 25th edition of Photo History Summer School, we note the birth dates of the avant garde Cech photographer... Read more

Photographer Gordon Parks, born 1912 and died 2006, was one of the most important figures of twentieth century photograp... Read more

Photographer Lisette Model, born in Vienna, Austria in 1901 and died 1983,  was an important street photographer of the ... Read more

Is anatomy destiny? This class session looks at women’s photography by examining the work of various female photographer... Read more

Today’s summer school session is all about color. On this date in 1904, The Parisian brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière ... Read more

In this summer school session, we explore two remarkable photographers; the Vietnamese photojournalist Nick Ut whose bes... Read more

During his 29-year tenure as Director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the great c... Read more

Photographer James Van Der Zee was active from the 1920s through the late 1970s, working primarily in his native Harlem ... Read more

The middle of the 20th century was a time of tremendous change in all areas of the world and especially in the world of ... Read more

John Szarkowski’s book Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art is one of th... Read more

When the exhibition The Family of Man opened in January of 1955, 60 years ago this month, visitors were greeted by more ... Read more

Is any photograph real? This question comes up as we trace the trajectory of the manipulated image in this class session... Read more

The 15th and final class session examines documentary and conceptual photography, looking at the motivation and rational... Read more

This week, we examine photographers using large cameras and those using small cameras and try to examine the importance ... Read more

One of the great characters in the history of the medium, Alfred Stieglitz was also one of the most influential photogra... Read more

Stop-motion photography as practiced by Edweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey and others is the topic of this class ... Read more

A slightly shorter class session, as we cover three smaller topics: 1) the ideas surrounding stereoscopic photography, 2... Read more

The interactive relationship that painting and photography have had for 174 years is the topic of this class session. We... Read more