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<h1>How Henry Fox Talbot Pioneered Photography: an Animated Motion Picture...</h1> <p>https://www.lomography.com/magazine/322414-how-henry-fox-talbot-pioneered-photography-an-animated-motion-picture?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=photo&utm_campaign=magazine</p>

<p>the Washington Post article has some superb images (no active link?):</p> <p>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/04/19/what-russia-looked-like-before-1914-in-color/?hpid=hp_no-name_photo-story-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory</p>

<blockquote> <p>Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was born near Moscow in 1863. Educated as a chemist, Prokudin-Gorskii applied his knowledge and skills towards the advancement of photography. He was especially interested in the reproduction of color, which at the time was a tedious and difficult process.</p> </blockquote> <p>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/04/19/what-russia-looked-like-before-1914-in-color/?hpid=hp_no-name_photo-story-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory</p> <p>Library of Congress archive for same: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/</p> <p> </p>

<p>sincere thanks, Anders, for the kind reception...</p> <p>regarding the images, captured at the height of the Depression (as global phenomenon), among other thoughts:</p> <p>there inheres what might be termed 'a terrible beauty '...</p>

>During the Great Depression, Langue took her camera out of the studio and onto the streets to document the country for the Farm Security Administration....Among the cities Lange focused her lens on was San Francisco, where she made over 100 photos for the FSA between 1935 and 1939. http://petapixel.com/2016/03/23/san-francisco-great-depression-photos-dorothea-lange/

<p>Hine retrospective: not solely a revisiting of what some deem a 'discarded' political economy...</p> <p>one reason why the work of Lewis Hine has relevance for us <em>today</em> (and, the current POTUS campaign rhetoric indicates to even casual observers that the reality of 'class warfare' is not 'ancient history') is that predatory industrialist tactics have not moved offshore, e.g., the CEO of Berkshire-Hathaway, Warren Buffett:<br /> <br /> <em>'there's class warfare, alright, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning...'</em><br /> <br /> understatement: there is room for a latter-day 'Lewis Hine,' i.e., in order to counter the dominant, subliminal narrative...<br /> as photographers--both 'pro' and 'lover' (<em>amateur</em>)--our image captures will establish an alternative to status quo 'handling'...<br> --that is, we photographers have a role to play in this unfolding drama of the Republic, the 240-year-old 'experiment'...<br /> to wit: Ben Franklin, Jefferson, Paine, et al., would have welcomed and encouraged the work of Hine--(Madison? Hamilton? not so much...).<br> --for documentary photographers: walk while there is light (he said)...</p> <p> </p>

<p>the primary impetus for posting this photo archive link is a re-reading of the classic work by Thompson, <em>The Making of the English Working Class</em>...</p> <p>--specifically, in nineteenth century England, it was determined that young children were the best suited to the unremitting, repetitive chores found in the then-burgeoning industrial age factory, an insight not lost upon their American industrialist counterparts in, e.g., New England mills in the early part of the 20 C.</p> <p>--how young a child was considered 'preferred' for the tedium of mass production? it was realized by the managerial overseers that six to eleven year old children--i.e., just <em>prior</em> to puberty--were the ideal candidate for ten-hour days in front of the conveyor...the as-yet inchoate mind was more readily controlled, malleable, etc., than that child on the cusp of sexual maturation...<br /> <br /> --to be precise, we are referring to <em>six</em>-day workweeks, eight, ten (or more) hours per day--<em>no</em> school study.</p> <p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_Jones#.22Children.27s_Crusade.22</p> <p> </p>

<p>from the University of Maryland archives, the photographic documentation of child labor:</p> <blockquote> <p>The extensive photographic survey of child labor made by Lewis Hine (1874-1940) during the early twentieth century provided reform groups and the public with visual evidence of the negative impact that work had on children. Hine's photographs helped mobilize society against child labor, while providing an extensive record of working children.</p> </blockquote> <p>http://cdm16629.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/hinecoll</p> <p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hine</p> <p>and, parenthetically, the 'remedy' for that exploitation of children, Mary Harris Jones:</p> <p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_Jones</p> <p> </p>

<p>hi Anders...</p> <p>I am reminded, too, of the fact of Beethoven's profound deafness:</p> <blockquote> <p>he wrote his <a title="Heiligenstadt Testament" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiligenstadt_Testament">Heiligenstadt Testament</a>, a letter to his brothers which records his thoughts of suicide due to his growing deafness and records his resolution to continue living for and through his art. Over time, his hearing loss became profound: at the end of the premiere of his <a title="Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)">Ninth Symphony</a> in 1824, he had to be turned around to see the tumultuous applause of the audience because he could hear neither it nor the orchestra. </p> </blockquote> <p>although he discovered the loss quite early on (he was only 28 when it began), he was quite determined to fulfill his artistic aims... <br /> <br /> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven#Loss_of_hearing<br /> <br /> and, thank you for your comments!</p> <blockquote> </blockquote>

<p>'Ken Keen FRPS is a photographer specialising in images of churches and cathedrals made with a large format camera and printed in historical (or alternative) process: cyanotype-Rex and salt print. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Disabled Photographers Society.'</p> <p><br />https://vimeo.com/124642746</p>

<p>Depression-era 'photographers at work with their cameras.'<br /> [...to 1946].<br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://petapixel.com/2016/02/17/photos-photographers-great-depression/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://petapixel.com/2016/02/17/photos-photographers-great-depression/</a></p> <p>if time permits, here is the entire (immense) project:</p> <p>http://photogrammar.yale.edu/</p> <p> </p>

<p>one heartfelt coda to this fine photographer's 'personal best' pick: after a highly successful career in<br> NYC working for several noted journals, and doubtless thousands of film captures in his esteemed portfolio,<br> he allows (and fifty-plus years after the fact): 'I still smile when I look at it' [!].</p> <p>moral of the story? if a creative lightning strikes in but one singular, graced moment in a career, celebrate<br> your great good fortune--fate has been kind to thee...</p>

<p>Barry and Louis--I've begun going through the over four-hundred photos...quite a remarkable display of imagination,<br> fortuitous captures...</p> <p>just one for now: Time and Life photographer Ormond Gigli found a willing subject in a group of tenements<br /> slated for demolition--directly across from his Manhattan studio, no less...The salient feature that may have<br /> prompted the artist in him was the fact that every single window had been removed/destroyed: voila! why<br /> not position a model in each each now-vacant space, party-colored apparel, a Rolls parked in front...</p> <p>...his Muse provided the cue, the project unfolded in his mind's eye--but the timing! 24 hours to bring a<br /> mini-Theatre production to fruition...yet (and, as the old Disney tune reminds us) 'like a bolt out of the<br /> blue, fate steps in and sees us through' ...the narrative accompanying the image fills in the particulars:</p> <blockquote> <p>'Then my assistant came in and said: "Ormond, you'd better get the camera up on the fire escape. There are people filling up the windows and more coming in taxis." All of a sudden it was happening.'</p> </blockquote> <p>http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/may/01/ormond-gigli-best-photograph-women-windows</p>

<h1 data-test-id="header-title"> </h1> 'Photographers come clean on how they created their favourite works...' <p>http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/series/mybestshot</p> <p> </p>

<p>for an array of reviews and commentary, reminiscences, etc., on the project:</p> <p>http://www.amazon.com/Another-Vietnam-Pictures-Other-Side/dp/0792264657/ref=cm_rdp_product</p>