W19 Perlove - HISTART 210 History of Photography Study Case
Julia Margaret Cameron
The Kiss of Peace
albumen print on paper
9 1/8 in x 7 1/8 in (23.18 cm x 18.1 cm);19 5/16 in x 14 5/16 in (49.05 cm x 36.35 cm);18 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in (45.88 cm x 56.04 cm)
Museum Purchase
Sir David Brewster
salted paper print
5 1/4 in x 5 9/16 in (13.3 cm x 14.1 cm);14 5/16 in x 19 5/16 in (36.35 cm x 49.05 cm);5 3/16 in x 5 9/16 in (13.2 cm x 14.2 cm);5 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in (13 cm x 14 cm)
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
Mathew B. Brady
Engineering Corps
albumen print on paper
11 in. x 16 7/8 in. ( 27.9 cm x 42.9 cm )
Museum Purchase
Thomas Leverton Donaldson
calotype negative on paper
8 9/16 in x 6 9/16 in (21.8 cm x 16.6 cm);14 5/16 in x 19 5/16 in (36.35 cm x 49.05 cm);8 5/8 in x 6 9/16 in (21.9 cm x 16.7 cm);8 3/8 in x 6 3/16 in (21.3 cm x 15.7 cm)
Museum Purchase
William Henry Fox Talbot
Part of Queen's College, Oxford
salted paper print
7 5/8 in x 9 3/8 in (19.37 cm x 23.81 cm);14 5/16 in x 19 5/16 in (36.35 cm x 49.05 cm);7 5/8 in x 9 3/8 in (19.37 cm x 23.81 cm);6 9/16 in x 8 1/16 in (16.67 cm x 20.48 cm)
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
Edward Steichen
Balzac, Towards the Light, Midnight
photogravure on paper
8 1/4 in x 11 3/4 in (20.96 cm x 29.85 cm)
Gift of Maxine and Lawrence K. Snider
Edward Steichen
Brancusi in his studio
photogravure on paper
10 ¼ in x 8 1/16 in (26.04 cm x 20.48 cm);22 ⅛ in x 18 ⅛ in (56.2 cm x 46.04 cm);10 3/16 in x 8 1/16 in (25.88 cm x 20.48 cm)
Gift of Frederick P. and Amy McCombs Currier
Thomas Leverton Donaldson
salted paper print
8 in x 6 in (20.4 cm x 15.2 cm);14 5/16 in x 19 5/16 in (36.35 cm x 49.05 cm);14 13/16 in x 10 11/16 in (37.6 cm x 27.2 cm);8 in x 6 in (20.4 cm x 15.2 cm)
Museum Purchase
John Thomson
The Crawlers
woodburytype on paper
4 9/16 in x 3 7/16 in (11.6 cm x 8.7 cm);19 5/16 in x 14 5/16 in (49.05 cm x 36.35 cm);10 5/8 in x 8 3/8 in (27 cm x 21.2 cm);4 9/16 in x 3 7/16 in (11.59 cm x 8.73 cm)
Museum Purchase
Paul J. Woolf
Rockefeller Center—Construction of the AP Building
gelatin silver print on paper
9 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in (24.13 cm x 16.51 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 1/16 in (56.2 cm x 45.88 cm);952 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in (2419.99 cm x 17.15 cm);9 13/16 in x 7 1/8 in (24.92 cm x 18.1 cm)
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
Peter Henry Emerson
Cantley Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide, plate XIV from "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads"
platinum print on paper
11 3/8 in x 16 3/16 in (28.9 cm x 41.1 cm);19 11/16 in x 16 in (50 cm x 40.7 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Annual meeting of north Michigan archers, USA
gelatin silver print on paper
9 ⅛ in x 13 ¾ in (23.18 cm x 34.92 cm)
Gift of Zoe and Yuri Gurevich in honor of Hava Gurevich
Photography has grown up with modern life: understanding its history requires an understanding of its broad social functions, its integration with everyday experience, and its complex relationships to the history of art and the history of modernity. This course surveys the history of photography from its public debut in 1839 to the present day, and introduces students to the tools needed to interpret its varied uses and meanings. Photography comprises a wide range of technologies and cultural practices. The cultural significance of photographs has historically been centered in their persuasiveness as records, yet the medium has also served, from its inception, as a vehicle for fictions and fantasies. Tracing photography’s evolution as an art form while attending to its operation within fields like science, politics, sociology, journalism and medicine, we will open the persuasive nature of the photograph to closer scrutiny: students will investigate the photograph’s dual status as picture and trace, and learn to read the medium’s history as a continual renegotiation of these properties. Though our topics will be wide-ranging, the course emphasizes art-historical skills as a foundation for a range of methods for photographic interpretation. Students will learn to analyze photographs as pictures, to incorporate visual analysis within historical argument, and to approach the diversity of photographic production from a broad historical perspective. The course will acquaint students with core principles and problems in the history of photography, with a selection of key historical sources and recent scholarly writings on the medium, and with a range of historically significant photographic practices and forms.