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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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A Portfolio of Piles
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1968
24.2 x 16.5 cm
TR 660 T44
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Artists Iain and Ingrid Baxter formed the <a href="https://vancouverartinthesixties.com/essays/siting-the-banal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NE Thing Co</a> in 1966. The Company, which was incorporated under Canadian law, challenged the supposed divide between art and everyday life</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and particularly everyday economic life</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">while also parodying the conventions of the corporate world. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://artistsbooksandmultiples.blogspot.com/2014/03/n-e-thing-co-portfolio-of-piles.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Portfolio of Piles</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> consists of 59 photographs of piles found around Vancouver. The photographs document what the NE Thing Co called “ACTs,” or “Aesthetically Claimed Things.” Claiming things, rather than making things, called attention to the artificial divide between art and life, while also trespassing across established boundaries. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The banality of the photographs further contributes to this challenge. Compare these images to examples of corporate photography in this exhibition, such as the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3051">Otis Dump Cars pamphlet</a>, a <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3066">Report on Evaporation Data</a>, and an album of </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3161">Sundry Photographs of the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Co</a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">as well as other examples of </span><a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/conceptual-photography" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conceptual art</a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">like Ed </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ruscha’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3171">Every Building on the Sunset Strip</a></span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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NE Thing Co (creator)
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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A System of Phrenology
Creator
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George Combe (author)
J. J. Butler (engraver)
Date
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1844
19.0 x 11.3 cm
BF 870 C72 1844
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The title page of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A System of Phrenology </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">boasts that the volume</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">features “upward of one hundred engravings.” Photography had been discovered by the time the book was published, but the dominant processes of the time</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (the <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3125">daguerreotype</a> and the calotype) did not offer </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">an efficient or practical method of circulating knowledge alongside printed text. </span></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The system of </span><a href="https://victorianweb.org/science/phrenology/intro.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">phrenology</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> described in this volume is closely related to the Victorian practice of physiognomy. Described today as pseudosciences, phrenology and </span><a href="https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/physiognomy-the-beautiful-pseudoscience/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">physiognomy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> posited that an individual’s exterior features revealed aspects of their character. Later, </span><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/301897" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Francis Galton</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> would use photography as a tool to both investigate and circulate physiognomic principles, and Charles Darwin would use photographs to examine <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3145">human emotion</a>. <br /><br />A full scan of this item is available through the <a href="https://archive.org/details/101519023.nlm.nih.gov/page/n4/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internet Archive</a>.<br /></span>
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographies
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Title
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Adolf Hitler: Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1936
30.5 x 46.5 cm
NC 1883.6 G3 C57 1936 folio
Description
An account of the resource
<p><a href="https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/collection/msiartifact/id/85/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cigarette albums</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> offer a different model for ways in which words and photographs could come together in a single volume. Albums like this one were sold with printed text and blank spaces for photographs; album owners would send in coupons that came with their packets of cigarettes to receive photographs to fill the blank spaces.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This example celebrates Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Führer</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and thereby demonstrates explicitly how photographs could be used to disseminate political ideologies. The album offers a counterpoint to publications such as </span><em><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3045">Life</a></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which began publication in 1936 and was informed by very different ideologies. The album also provides further context for </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Heartfield’s <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3157">photomontages</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which drew on and remixed mass media images such as these photographs to critique the Nazi regime. <br /><br />Another <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3144">German cigarette album</a> housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections commemorates the 1936 Olympics.</span></p>
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photographer unknown
photojournalism
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Photographies
Dublin Core
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Title
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Album of Medical Students
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920s
13.5 x 20.0 cm
FC 3234.2 P732 PE001555
Description
An account of the resource
This album includes photographs of medical students at the University of Alberta in the 1920s. One page of the album shown here features two photographs taken in the university's Anatomy Laboratory, where men in white lab coats appear to be having fun while posing with a model of a human skeleton.<br /><br /><span>This album is part of the </span><a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections/prairie-ephemera" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prairie Ephemera Collection</a><span> housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.</span>
Creator
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photographer unknown
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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Album with Pressed Flowers
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1899]
17.0 x 53.0 cm
FC3234.2 P732 PE001004
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This unique album from 1894 acts as an </span><i>aide memoire</i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with the photographs as well as the pressed plants and flowers providing an </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/what-is-photography">indexical</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> link to the places represented. </span></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eIH69QWd8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gelatin dry plate process</a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">rendered photography more accessible in the late-nineteenth century. Once the plates could be dry rather than wet (as was the case with the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnxT4WQsLLM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wet collodion process</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), photographers did not need a portable darkroom in order to create the kind of landscape pictures included here. Still, the careful compositions found within this album suggest that the photographs were taken by a serious amateur who had knowledge of the photographic process, made use of a tripod, and aimed for artistic compositions. Compare this album to an <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/memory-and-identity/1900-to-1969/snapshot-albums">album of snapshots</a> from the early-twentieth century to get a sense of this difference.<br /><br /><span>This album is part of the </span><a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections/prairie-ephemera" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prairie Ephemera Collection</a><span> housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.</span><br /></span>
Creator
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photographer unknown
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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Anatomical Illustrations of the Bee
Creator
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Goh Windisch (creator)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1875]
23.4 x 31.6 cm
QL 568 A6 W53 1875
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This album (labelled on the cover "<em>Anatomische Abbildungen der Biene</em>") from 1875 captures some of the reasons why early photography was more effective at </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">producing </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">knowledge than </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">circulating </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">knowledge. Here, photographs, drawings, and text mingle together on the page. The album’s compiler was interested in using the most effective combinations to record and convey information, and photography was not always the best choice.<br /><br />Created with </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnxT4WQsLLM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wet plates</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and printed on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObveSq3cMkw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">albumen paper</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the photographs are pasted into the album and then combined with additional markings that make each page unique. Consider similarities and differences between this album and Charles </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Darwin’s </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3145"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which also used photography as a means of producing knowledge. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the unique features of this album is its </span>photomicrographs<span style="font-weight: 400;">. Even though these photographs may not have circulated widely, the idea of capturing the view through the microscope photographically was considered an important breakthrough and offered advantages over the practice of recording microscopic views by hand, as seen in the example of </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3030"><em>Miscellaneous Objects as Seen With and Without the Microscope</em></a>.</p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of the earliest </span>photomicrographs<span style="font-weight: 400;"> were made in 1840, using the </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3125">daguerreotype process</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The scientists responsible for the images, Alfred Donné and Léon Foucault, published reproductions of their </span>daguerreotypes<span style="font-weight: 400;"> as </span>engravings<span style="font-weight: 400;"> in </span><a href="https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b30455248#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-0.2291%2C-0.0874%2C1.4581%2C1.747" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cours de microscopie complémentaire des études médicales</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 1844, and in an accompanying atlas in 1845. </span>
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Title
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Photographies
Dublin Core
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Title
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Ancient York
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1920]
6.6 x 8.4 cm
DA 690 Y6 A63 1920z
Creator
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Valentine & Sons (photographer)
Description
An account of the resource
These "real photographs" of York are similar in format to the photographs of <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3107">Melrose Abbey</a>, though these were published by the <a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/james-valentine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Valentine company</a>, a commercial photographic firm based in Scotland.
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Photographies
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Title
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Animal Locomotion
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Eadweard Muybridge (photographer)
Date
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1969 facsimile of 1887 original
34.2 x 49.5 cm
QP 301 M992 1969 folio
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNU7sXkZmSw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eadweard Muybridge</a>’s efforts to capture animal motion with photography provides evidence of the desire to capture photographically what is invisible to the human eye. The resulting photographs had a significant influence on both scientists and artists. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The series </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Animal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <em>Locomotion</em>, published in 1887 and based on <a href="https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/muybridge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Muybridge's studies at the University of Pennsylvania</a>, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">provides an example of what could be achieved with the shorter exposure times of </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eIH69QWd8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gelatin dry plates</a> and the photomechanical process of the <a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/collotype" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collotype</a>. But, as scholars such as Marta Braun have pointed out, the photographs required manipulation and editing to render animal motion legible. To begin examining the editorial decisions that are apparent in Muybridge's studies, consider the different actions performed by men and women in the plates featured here. Also consider how many different views of the moving body each plate includes. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 400;">Muybridge’s photographs contributed to a discussion among artists regarding the representation of movement in painting, as seen in the work of artists <a href="https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/43938.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas Eakins</a> and <a href="https://philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51449.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marcel Duchamp</a>. Muybridge’s photographs have entered the art world in other ways as well, often appearing today on the walls of art galleries. For example, some of the plates from the original 1887 series are held by the the <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artists/18883/eadweard-muybridge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Art Institute of Chicago</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The copy of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Animal Locomotion </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections is a facsimile edition published in 1969; by that time, the series was more likely to be studied by art historians than by scientists.</span></p>
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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Animisme et Spiritisme
Date
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1895
21.4 x 13.0 cm
BF 1262 A32 1895
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The practice known as </span><a href="https://history.nebraska.gov/blog/spirit-photography" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spirit photography</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> pushes the limits of what we consider photographic by seeking to represent the spiritual, rather than the physical and visible, on the photographic plate. </span><span>The practice of spirit photography also points towards nineteenth-century tendencies to manipulate the image</span><span>—</span><span>a kind of photoshop before photoshop. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though we don’t consider a belief in spirits “scientific” today, this practice holds similarities to scientific practices that have sought to capture what is invisible to the human eye photographically, such as <a href="http://100photos.time.com/photos/wilhelm-conrad-rontgen-first-x-ray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">x-ray photographs</a> and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Muybridge’s <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3153">motion photographs</a>. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course the extent to which each of these examples is manipulated to produce an image of what was previously invisible varies. One of the most well-known nineteenth-century spirit photographers is <a href="https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-159-spiritual-developments-2-26-2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Mumler</a>, who claimed to have photographed Abraham Lincoln's ghost. <br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will notice that <em>Animisme et Spiritisme </em>(Animism and Spiritualism) does not actually contain any photographs. Rather, it contains </span>engravings<span style="font-weight: 400;"> based on photographs, attesting to the continued difficulties of printing photographs side by side with text in an efficient manner. Yet it is noteworthy that the texts framing the engravings insist on their photographic origins. <br /><br />A full scan of this item is available through the <a href="https://archive.org/details/animismeetspiri00sandgoog/page/n10/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internet Archive</a>.<br /><br /><br /></span></p>
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<p></p>
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Alexandre Aksakof (author)
photographer unknown
engraving
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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Annual Inspection Trip: Chairman and President and Directors, CPR
Date
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1929
28.0 x 65.0 cm
FC 59 C52 1929
Description
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This album documents an annual inspection trip from Montreal to Victoria taken by the CPR’s chairman, president, and directors. It provides another example of the ways photography circulated knowledge about places, contributing to Canada's </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“<a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/memory-and-identity">imagined geographies</a>.”</span>
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photographer unknown
landscape