Reading Comics: See You in the Funny Pages
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
Enjoy photographs from the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information collection of people viewing comic art!
Posted in: FSA/OWI, Photographs
Archive: 2024 (52 Posts)
Material Matters | Considering the Tintype
Posted by: Kate Fogle
In this age of born-digital photography, the tintype is a curiosity for many. A photograph on metal may seem lightyears away from the bits and bytes that make up a contemporary digital image. But in its time, the tintype—a version of the wet collodion process—allowed photographs to be produced efficiently and in a matter of …
Posted in: Photographs, Series: Material Matters
The West and Midwest: Newly Added Photos from Carol M. Highsmith
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
Contemporary photographer Carol M. Highsmith’s decades-long project to document the entire United States sent her touring the Midwest and West during the last few years. Some of the states Highsmith photographed are: Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Nebraska, and both North and South Dakota. Thousands of those photos are now available in the Prints & Photographs …
Posted in: Photographs
The First Three
Posted by: Jan Grenci
My latest Flickr album – Sweet 16 – A Golden Birthday for Flickr Commons – celebrated the 16th birthday of the Flickr Commons. When I was looking for images for the Flickr album, the photo below showed up in my search results, as the caption tells us that the bus made sixteen round trips daily: …
Posted in: Flickr, Photographs, Posters, World War I
More Jefferson Building Drawings Digitized
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
The Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building is one of the more ornately decorated buildings in Washington, D.C. When visitors walk into the Great Hall, they usually look up and around, taking in the painted murals, sculpted details, the colorful glass skylight, and the monumental scale of the space. Today, we will instead talk about …
Posted in: Architecture, Drawings
Material Matters | Looking Deeper at Photographic Formats
Posted by: Kate Fogle
Photographs are portals. In our looking, their subjects usher us through bordered edges to times and places both unknown and familiar. They allow us to slip inside to discern their scenes and settings and to learn their unique pictorial lexicons. But there is more to photographs than their subject matter. The materiality of the image, …
Posted in: Series: Material Matters, Women's History
New Year Greetings from Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
“Greetings and Hearty Good Wishes for the New Year from Frances Benjamin Johnston” reads this combination business card, greeting card, and 1904 calendar from photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. In 1904, Johnston was thirty years old, had a home photo studio in Washington, D.C., at 1332 V Street, and was already well-established in the capital city. …
Posted in: Photographs, Portraits, Prints, Women's History