Urban In-sights: Pre-reading
PDF copies of required pre-readings will be provided to attendees in advance of the workshop.
Required Pre-reading/Viewing:
Eastman House Photographic Process series:
https://www.eastman.org/processvideos
Minneapolis Institute of Arts and YouTube Printmaking Processes:
Relief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0skLwaFpn0
Intaglio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKn4PORGBI&t
Mezzotints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jikAwCcc0uI
Lithography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc
Historical Primary Sources:
M.A. Root, The Camera and the Pencil : or, The Heliographic Art (Philadelphia: M. A Root, 1864) reprint 1971, (1864), 32-48.
“Lithography,” Analectic Magazine (July 1819), 67-73.
Secondary Sources:
Michael Leja, “Fortified Images for the Masses,” Art Journal (2011), 61-83.
Brian Maidment, Reading Popular Prints (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 1-26.
Elizabeth Milroy, The Grid and the River, 155-179.
Erika Piola, ed. Philadelphia on Stone (University Park: Pennsylvania University Press and Library Company of Philadelphia, 2012), Intro (p.12-33).
Jennifer Roberts “Relearning the Lost Skill of Patience”
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/relearning-the-lost-skill-of-patience/281482/
Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Pryzblyski, ed., “Visual Culture’s History: Twenty-First Century Interdisciplinarity and Its Nineteenth-Century Objects.” In Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004), 3-33.
Anne Verplanck, “‘The shadow of your noble self’: The Reception and Use of Daguerreotypes.” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, History of Design, and Material Culture. 24:1 (Spring/Summer 2017): 47-73.
Online sources
Getty – Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/atlas.html
Graphics Atlas
The MET timelines
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/essays/
Graphics and Digital Collection catalogs
Library Company of Philadelphia
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/islandora%3Aroot
American Antiquarian Society
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/catalog.htm
Library of Congress
New York Public Library