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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Last Reviewed, May 2002