Media Collection Guide / George Mason University Libraries
ART: Photography
America and Lewis Hine.
Using historical photographs and footage, follows America's pioneer industrial photographer on his odyssey through the mines, mills, and factories of America in the first half of the twentieth century.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR820 .A5

Camera, early photography & moving pictures.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR15 .C36 1991

Comings and goings; suburbian strategies.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6494.V53 D35

Domestic memories.
Demonstrates how people reflect their own reality in taking photographs and participating in photography. Two photographers from northern Britain are featured as well as the Kodak Collection, National Museum of Television, Film and Photography, Bradford and the Documentary Photographic Archive.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR642 .D66

Dorothea Lange.
The story of photographer Dorothea Lange. Trained as a society photographer, she began documenting the effects of the Depression on ordinary Americans in the 1930's. Her images spoke eloquently of the plight of the poor and brought the distress and desperation of the Depression into the consciousness of the public.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR140.L3 D67 1988

Harry Callahan, Eleanor and Barbara.
Features Harry Callahan's photographs of his wife, Barbara, and daughter, Eleanor, taken over a period of approximately twenty-five years. Through the photographs, viewers are given an important insight into Callahan's creativity.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR680 .H33 1983

Health hazards in art.
Discusses measures necessary to insure one's safety when working with various art materials.
Johnson Center Videotapes
RC963.6.A78 H43

Images, 150 years of photography.
Draws on the anthropological photographic collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford ; the Royal Anthropological Institute ; and the Cambridge University. The program also deals with the work of an amateur archaeologist, Gertrude Bell.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR775 .E93

Images, 150 years of photography.
Looks at the result achieved where photographers were commissioned to reflect the world of certain aspects of it. Also, visits the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal, where photography forms an integral part of the collection.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR739 .R43

Images of the Great Depression, 1930-1940.
Examines the images of the Depression era in various media of the period. Includes still photographs, excerpts from feature films, government information films, documentaries and news reels. Also includes commentary by some of the individuals involved with creating the images found there.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E806 .I63 1990

The Magic mirror.
Examines the development of artistic photography and its gradual independence from an early reliance on painting for its inspiration.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR642 .M35

Never give up.
Autobiographical study of Imogen Cunningham and her photographic work over 70 years.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR140.C8 N4

Notman's world.
Presents photographs from the Notman collection. Discusses the early days of photography and the methods and cameras used.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR652 .N68

The Pencil of nature.
An overview of the early history of photography. Discusses The Pencil of nature, by William Henry Fox Talbot, the first book with photographs used as illustrations.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR144 .P45

Photo wallahs.
The film focuses on the photographers of Mussoorie, a hill station in the Himalayan foothills of northern India whose fame has attracted tourists since the 19th century. Through a rich mixture of scenes that includes the photographers at work, their clients, and both old and new photographs, this film examines photography as art and as social artifact.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR195.I4 P56

Portrait of Imogen.
Photographer Imogen Cunningham presents more than 250 of her own photographs through informal recorded interviews when she was in her late eighties.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR647.C8 P67

Ruth Bernhard, photographer.
Documents the life and work of photographer Ruth Bernhard through interviews, studies of her methods in the studio and darkroom, and an extensive retrospective of her work.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR140.B47 R8 1988

The subject is light.
Discussing the law of light and the reaction of light on any given form, as well as the qualities of light (direct light, spotlight, indirect light, etc.)
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR590 .S893

To dream with open eyes and expanding photographic vision.
Ernst Haas shares his philosophy of photography, his techniques, and experience. Illustrated with examples of his work.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR647.H234 T632 1981

William Henry Fox Talbot.
Fox Talbot discovered the negative-postive process. This program explains both the technical aspects of his work and shows many of his thought-provoking results.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TR140.T3 W5

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