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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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Celtic Ornaments from the Book of Kells
Creator
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Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (author)
photographer unknown
Date
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1895
31.5 x 24.5
ND 3359 B7 A13 1895 folio
Description
An account of the resource
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Celtic Ornaments from the Book of Kells</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> provides an example of a photographic reproduction of a unique work of art. This example, published in Dublin at the end of the nineteenth century, provides access to the book's decorative elements for those who could not view them firsthand. <br /><br /><span>One of William Henry Fox Talbot’s aspirations for photography, described in </span><i><span>The Pencil of Nature</span></i><span><span>, was that photographs would provide art reproductions. </span></span>Compare this reproduction of the <em>Book of Kells</em> and Talbot's examples in <a href="https://archive.org/details/thepencilofnatur33447gut/page/n1/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Pencil of Nature</em></a> (such as plates v, xi, and xxiii) to an earlier volume of art reproductions, such as </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">George Baxter’s <em><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3033">Cabinet of Paintings</a></em></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> What were some of the advantages and disadvantages of these different processes for art reproduction? <br /></span></p>
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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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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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Title
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Photographies
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Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail
Creator
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Ansel Adams (photographer)
Date
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1938
22.8 x 15.0 cm
F 868 S5 A25 1938 folio
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a founding member of </span><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/f64/hd_f64.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Group f/64</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1582/ansel-adams-american-1902-1984/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ansel Adams</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">along with other members of the California-based group</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">used the camera’s smallest aperture (known as f/64) in order to create photographs with greater depth of field, keeping as much of the image in clear focus as possible. They also embraced the use of glossy </span><a href="https://www.nga.gov/research/online-editions/alfred-stieglitz-key-set/practices-and-processes/gelatin-silver-prints.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">silver gelatin prints</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which called attention to the photographic nature of their images.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Only five hundred copies of this publication were published in 1938, and each copy featured silver gelatin prints tipped in (pasted in) on individual pages. The white space around each picture emphasizes the photograph’s status as a work of art that stands on its own. </span><span><br /><br /></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5_qb71bXs" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adams</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was a leader in the nature conservation movement and is today among the best known landscape photographers of the twentieth century; </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> provides one example of Adams’s many publications</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. <span>Compare Adams’s <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/sublime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sublime</a> photographs of the American West to those captured almost a century earlier in</span><span> </span><span><em><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3147">Geological Survey of California: The Yosemite Book</a></em>. </span> </span></p>
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Title
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Photographies
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A Portfolio of Piles
Date
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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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London
Date
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1914
22.5 x 16.0 cm
DA 684 C52 1914
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">American </span><a href="https://archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/pictorialism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pictorialist</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> photographer </span><a href="https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1957/alvin-langdon-coburn-british-born-united-states-1882-1966/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alvin Langdon Coburn</a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">was a founding member of the </span><a href="https://archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/the-photo-secession/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Photo-Secession</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, along with </span><a href="https://archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/alfred-stieglitz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alfred Stieglitz</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Photo-Secession members advocated for photography’s status as a fine art, showing their photographs alongside European modern art at Stieglitz’s <a href="https://archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/little-galleries-of-the-photo-secession291/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">291 Gallery</a> in New York City and in the pages of the journal </span><a href="https://archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/camera-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>Camera Work</i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where photographs and paintings were reproduced side-by-side using </span><a href="https://archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/photogravure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photogravure</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In 1912, Coburn emigrated to the United Kingdom and became involved with the </span><a href="https://platinumprince.com/pictorialist-organisations/2019/4/8/the-linked-ring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Linked Ring</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a British group of </span>pictorialist<span style="font-weight: 400;"> photographers founded in 1892. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This privately-printed book includes a text by the British writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton and ten photographs by Coburn, printed by </span>mezzogravure,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> a printing process similar to the </span><a href="https://archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/photogravure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photogravure</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Photographs and text remain separate, with just one photograph per page featured in a series of photographic plates, making it clear that the photographs are not merely illustrations but works of art in their own right. This treatment of photographs is similar to the presentation in </span><i>Camera Work</i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and other fine art publications of the time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A full scan of the book is available through the <a href="https://archive.org/details/london00chesuoft/page/-3/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internet Archive</a>.</span></p>
Creator
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G. K. Chesterton (author)
Alvin Langdon Coburn (photographer)
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Title
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Photographies
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Title
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Photographs of India
Date
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[1900]
16.0 x 21.0 cm
DS 413 A53 1900
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This album of original photographs offers a view of India as seen through a </span><a href="https://archive.artic.edu/stieglitz/pictorialism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pictorialist</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> lens. The photographer, who was a visitor to India in 1900, plays with composition and focus to soften the appearance of the photographs, differentiating this album from the typical <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/memory-and-identity/1900-to-1969/snapshot-albums">snapshot albums</a> that began to proliferate around this time. </span><span>Here, the romantic haze of the Pictorialist style contributes to the view of India circulated by this album. Another example of the Pictorialist approach can be found in Edward Curtis's </span><i><span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3155">The North American</a></span></i><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3155"> <em>Indian</em></a><em>,</em> which aimed to document the Indigenous peoples of North America in the early-twentieth century, and often did so through a hazy, romanticized lens.</p>
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photographer unknown
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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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Lett's Expedition from Edmonton to Victoria
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
R. C. W. Lett (photographer)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1910
24.2 x 19.0 cm
FC 3205.3 L65 1910
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This album was assembled by a man named R. C. W. Lett, who is described in the album’s pages as a “colonization agent” of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The album thus makes visible and explicit the ways that photography was used as a tool of colonization. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The album also contains some surprises. Three loose photographs found among the album’s pages offer views of Mount Robson. Look closely. In each print, a man sits at an easel in the foreground, dwarfed by the size of the mountain while painting the scenery around him. Paint has also been applied to the surface of the photographs in an apparent effort to transform these documentary prints into </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/works-of-art/1850-to-1900"><span style="font-weight: 400;">works of art</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.<br /></span></p>
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Rockies
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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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Free Homes and Cheap Railway Lands!
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1890
23.0 x 10.5 cm
FC 3204.1 C214 1890
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Published by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1890, this brochure provides another example of the way that the CPR packaged and sold the land of Canada, and of the role that photography played in that process. Here, actual land is advertised as available for purchase, whereas the album <em><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3056">CPR 1887</a></em>, <span>created just three years earlier to commemorate a CPR investors' trip across Canada,</span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> packages and sells an idea of Canada’s landscape to investors. </span></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">This brochure also demonstrates the challenge of printing photographs and texts side-by-side at this time and calls attention to some of the strategies used instead. Here, captions accompanying each illustration promise viewers that the pictures are based on photographs and are therefore “photographic,” even in the absence of actual photographs. This was a common approach used in illustrated newspapers throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, until the </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3044">halftone process</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> came into widespread use.</span>
Creator
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photographer unknown
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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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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
Dublin Core
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Title
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Postal Souvenirs
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1920]
27.5 x 35.0 cm
FC 3234.2 P732 PE001561
Description
An account of the resource
<span style="font-weight: 400;">“Postal Souvenirs” provides an example of what the faster exposures of the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eIH69QWd8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">gelatin process</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> could achieve. Here, a trip to a rodeo provided an opportunity to capture the sense of movement that eluded earlier nineteenth-century photographers. The album also provides an example of the day-to-day memories that could be recorded and preserved once the camera became commonplace. It is noteworthy that some of these photographs were printed as <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3096">postcards</a>.<br /><br />This album is part of the <a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections/prairie-ephemera" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prairie Ephemera Collection</a> housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.</span>
Creator
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photographer unknown
postcard