Archive: May 2020 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Kristi Finefield; (Year) 2020; (Month) May

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Double Take: A Different Slant on Photographic Research

May 21, 2020

When I envision how to research a photograph or any other image, one methodology I come back to over and over consists of ever-widening circles, with the photo in question at center. Picture, if you will, a stone thrown in a still pond and the ripples flowing outwards, growing ever wider. Today’s stone is the …

Posted in: Photographs, Series: Double Take, Visual literacy

No Need to Hold these Horses: Announcing New Free to Use and Reuse Set

May 15, 2020

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

In the Library’s latest Free to Use and Reuse set of images drawn from the collections, the focus is on the horse, and all the myriad ways these noble animals have been part of our lives, including sports, recreation, agriculture, transportation, and so on. I spotted one image that for me, and maybe for many …

Posted in: Photographs, Prints

Refined by: (Author) Kristi Finefield; (Year) 2020; (Month) May