American Photography

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Arizona Public Media offers a June 3, 2008 video (05:04) to compliment the exhibit Lee Friedlander: American Monuments May 17, 2008 - August 3, 2008 at the Center for Creative Photography. The exhibit examines national identity as seen by a keen observer. Renowned photographer Lee Friedlander's work on American Monuments explores how we define ourselves.

The WGBH/Boston Forum Network includes a number of videos on Art and Architecture. Partners include a number of Boston-area museums, colleges, universities and other cultural organizations.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston partnered with the Forum Network for Modern Art in America, (43 minutes) in which Heather Cotter, Museum of Fine Arts Gallery Lecturer, gives an overview of the roots of American modern art using examples from the Museum's collection. This talk in the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts investigates the foundations of modern art in America, focusing on works by Georgia O'Keefe, Arthur Dove, Charles Sheeler, and Stuart Davis. [September 28, 2003]

The Museum of Afro-American History partnered with the Forum Network for Looking For Mr. Gilbert: African-American Photographer, a lecture by John Hanson Mitchell., author, presents slides of works by Robert Alexander Gilbert, who was a 19th century African American artist. Mitchell talks about the life of this unassuming Renaissance man who took haunting photos of the Boston landscape and its people. [March 30., 2005]

The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami partnered with the Forum Network for Alexander Heria: Photographs I by Alexander Heria, photographer. (9 minutes) Alexander Heria discusses his poetic photographs of foliage on display at MOCA North Miami's Goldman Warehouse, as part of the New Art: South Florida exhibit. [September 4, 2007]; and Alexander Heria: Photographs II by Alexander Heria, photographer. (7 minutes) Alexander Heria discusses his poetic photographs of foliage on display at MOCA North Miami's Goldman Warehouse. (Lecture contributed by WPBT) [September 4, 2007]

The J. Paul Getty Museum's web site, as of April 2005, provides over twenty videos, including collection tours, behind the scenes conservation methods for various types of art, installations, artist conversations, and the making of several types of art in a "Video Gallery" that uses RealPlayer. In the Video Gallery's "behind the Scenes" section a 3-minute video is named "Hockney: Pearblossiom Highway" and features David Hockney explaining the inspiration for one of his creations. Another 3-minute video named "Photographs Overview" discusses photography as art.

Accompanying the page for the exhibit The Photographs of Frederick Sommer: A Centennial Tribute, showing May 10 - September 4, 2005, is a video explaining how Sommer transformed objects using photography.

Included in the page for the exhibit All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852­1860, on exhibit February 1 through Aprl 24, 2005, a video shows how Fenton photographed the Crimean War.

Accompanying the page for the exhibit Walker Evans: Before + After, on exhibit July 10 - October 28, 2001, a 4 1/2-minute video introduces the exhibition and another 4 1/2-minute video features Walker Evans in His Own Words.

The PBS American Masters series includes a documentary concerning Alfred Stieglitz. PBS's web site offers a page that includes eight video clips from four to nine minutes in length not found in the original documentary. Stieglitz-experts in the clips include Historian Thomas Bender; Alan Trachtenberg, Professor of American Studies at Yale; Richard Whelan, Stieglitz Biographer; Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Curator at Philips Gallery; Sarah Greenough, Curator of Photographs, National Gallery of Art; Joanna Steichen, Author, and widow of Edward Steichen; Sue Davidson-Lowe, author and grand-niece of Stieglitz; and Wanda Corn, art historian at Stanford.

More from American Masters:

From YouYube Master Photographers: Andre Kertesz (1983) BBC series; part 1 9:54; part 2 10:20; part 3 7:32; part 4 3:52

From YouTube "Alfred Stieglitz" [05:42]

From YouTube "Garry Winogrand - Part 1" [05:39] Documentary on Garry Winogrand - Part 1

From YouTube "Garry Winogrand - Part 2" [06:13] Documentary on Garry Winogrand - Part 2

A contributor to YouTube named Cybelephotography combined music and photographs by famous photographers into 55 "Masters of Photography" videos including the following:

 

TFAO also suggests:

Resource Library articles and essays on American photography: 18-19th Century, 19-20th Century, 20-21st Century

Texts on American photography from other web sites

Online audio clips and shows on American photography

DVD or VHS videos on American photography

 

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