American Photography: online videos

American Photography

online videos

"Alfred Stieglitz" [05:42] was posted on YouTube in the 2000's. [Link found expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation and link for possible use by researchers.]

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860, was a Getty Museum exhibit held February 1 through Aprl 24, 2005. A page for the exhibit contains a video shows how Fenton photographed the Crimean War. Accessed April, 2015.

American Landscape Gallery posted video and music relating to contemporary landscape photographers. [Link found expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation and link for possible use by researchers.]

Ansel Adams- California's Gold (10001) is a 25-minute episode from Huell Howser's California's Gold television series.from January, 2008. It is presented online without charge by the Chapman University Huell Howser Archive. The Archive page containing the episode says: "Many people are familiar with Ansel Adams famous landscape photographs of Yosemite, but there is a whole other body of work that is rarely discussed. Huell visits the Los Angeles Public Library to see the "forgotten Los Angeles photographs" taken by Ansel in 1940 for a Fortune Magazine article on pre-war L.A. These photographs were later donated to the library by Ansel and are now in their collection. Huell is joined by Jonathan Spaulding, the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of the American West and Autry National Center, and author of "Ansel Adams and the American Landscape." They spend the day in downtown Los Angeles to visit many of the sites where the original photographs were taken." Accessed April, 2015.

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. Accessed April, 2015.

"Garry Winogrand - Part 1" [05:39] Documentary on Garry Winogrand - Part 1 was posted in 2007 on YouTube. Also, "Garry Winogrand - Part 2" [06:13] Documentary on Garry Winogrand - Part 2 was posted in 2007 on YouTube. Accessed April, 2015.

HANKetCANDACE Presentations offered Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde. Mel Stuart (born 2 September 1928) is an American film director and producer. Stuart directed the fantasy-musical Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). He has directed features, including If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1968), and Running on the Sun: The Badwater 135 (2000). Stuart also directed documentaries including Four Days in November and Wattstax. A video with Mel Sturat and Molly Barnes [28:01] [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]

Jim Dine: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets) an exhibit held October 30, 2008 - February 9, 2009 at at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Includes documentary video regarding Jim Dine's creative process. Accessed April, 2015.

J. Paul Getty Museum's web site provides 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. 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, 1852-1860, 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. Accessed May, 2015.

The J. Paul Getty Museum collaborated with Khan Academy to provide several brief videos. Postings included videos on photographs and photographers including "'Manhatta:' A film by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler" (07:27); "'Poison:' a short film by Man Ray" (03:30); "Walker Evans in his own words" (04:38); "Dorothea Lange's documentary photographs" (04:32); "John Humble's photographs of Los Angeles" (03:21); "David Hockney's 'Pearblossom Hwy'" (03:11); "Carrie Mae Weems on her series 'From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried'" (02:47) [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]

Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens, an exhibit held October 10, 2009 - January 10, 2010 at the Phillips Collection. Includes online videos. Accessed April, 2015.

Master Photographers: Andre Kertesz (1983) BBC series; part 1 9:54; part 2 10:20; part 3 7:32; part 4 3:52 were posted on YouTube in 2008. Accessed April, 2015.

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. [Originally posted March 30., 2005] [Link found expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation and link for possible use by researchers.]

The WGBH/Boston Forum Network is an audio and video streaming web site dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures, including a number of videos on Art and Architecture. Partners include a number of museums, colleges, universities and other cultural organizations. See listings of related videos in this catalogue indexed by partner name. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami partnered with the WGBH 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]; 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] Accessed May, 2015.

PBS American Masters series includes a documentary concerning Alfred Stieglitz. PBS's website offers a page including 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. Accessed April, 2015. PBS American Masters series includes a documentary concerning photojournalist Andre Kertesz. PBS's website included a 1 1/2 minute video clip of Kertesz explaining what it takes to be a photographer. [Link found expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation and link for possible use by researchers.]

The Phillips Collection presents a video [1:33] about its photography collection. in connection with the exhibit "American Moments: Photographs from The Phillips Collection" Jun 6 - Sep 13, 2015. Accessed June, 2015.

The Photographs of Frederick Sommer: A Centennial Tribute, was a Getty Museum exhibit held May 10 - September 4, 2005. A page for the exhibit contains a video explaining how Sommer transformed objects using photography. Accessed April, 2015.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art website contains as of 2013 an Interactive Features section with numerous video interviews including an interactive online feature: Ansel Adams describes how he photographed "Moonrise" in a 1980 video clip from the exhibit Ansel Adams at 100. Accessed May, 2015.

Smithsonian American Art Museum provides online videos available through the Museum's website including: John Gossage: The Pond, August 27, 2010 - January 17, 2011: 51:26 video of conversation about "The Pond" with Curator Toby Jurovics and John Gossage; Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art presents a 45 min. video from the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art titled Four Photographers on Three Wheels: William Eggleston's Tricycle and Before, October 27, 2010 by Mark Feeney, arts and photography critic for the Boston Globe and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. The above video listings contain biographical information courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Accessed May, 2015.

Walker Evans: Before + After, was a Getty Museum exhibit held July 10 - October 28, 2001. A page for the exhibit contains a 4 1/2-minute video introduces the exhibition and another 4 1/2-minute video features Walker Evans in His Own Words. Accessed April, 2015.

Western Reserve Public Media video (27:18) produced in 2010 while the exhibit Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present was at the Akron Art Museum. Accessed August, 2015.

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