Wonderful find! Thanks JDS, for this link (from the Yahoo PhotoHistory Group). Also liked your comments re Ch. Dodson. However, I found some glitches in the web pages-the individual pictures in the Conn. album grouping do not enlarge as indicated; the link to Secrets of the Dark Chamber is now dead; the great shot of the 1906 Baker does not provide detail enlargements as indicated (I wanted to examine the guy on the scaffolding against the wall-???). (Glitches were fixed. Thanks for the alert. jds 0 I also have some great shots by Mr. Anon from some old negs given by a relative (but non-family: two farmers standing on their heads by a hay stack!?; an outdoor shot of a baby in coffin on a chair w/ horse & buggy in the distance, etc. When I get them digitized and available, would love to share. Great web site!
Submitted by: Bruce T. Erickson (berickson@hawaii.rr.com)
I'm very happy I "bumped" into your site and find it VERY well done and maybe the best visual anthropolgy site I have visited! I am a photographer and am working on a visual ethnology here in Thoreau New Mexico. I would very much like to post my work on YOUR site. How might that be arranged? I will definitely be passing your name around to my fellow Anthropologists and photographers! Thanks for being there! Robert
Submitted by: Robert Brochey (brochey@zianet.com)
I just loved this website.
It was a great find for me, a photo lover.
Thanks
From: Dayse Alves <dayse.alves@uol.com.br>
found you looking for a london independent news paper what a delight i met jack welpot many years ago in s.f. calif.i remember some of the work on your site it has really rekindled my interest in photography something i love dearly but abandoned for mixed media a long time ago your site has ignited a spark thank you and jack
From: david benedict --- <dbendo@mindspring.com>
dear sir-i'm indebted to you for the construction of this site as its
one of the few places i've been able to find work by jack welpott-along-whos
work (along with emmet gowin)i admire a great deal-while exploring the
rest of the site i noticed your admiration for a project by an ex student
tracing her grandmothers life and i thought i'd mention the english photographer
jo spence-sadly now dead-but whose work often dealt with the family-text
combined with snap-shots-i'm unpacking at the moment so i am unable-at
this time able to provide you with a correct reference to her published
works-if you are interested i will soon be in a position to send such infomation-anyway-it
just crossed my mind-i only wanted to say that i enjoy visiting the site
and look forward to new additions!
-
Submitted by: sean (seancath@uniservity.net)
Even at a cursory viewing an interesting site. I hope to have
more historical info. and pics.
All the best
Submitted by: niyatee (niyatee@yahoo.com)
Enjoyed your site and will return often. I also have a found photo page that you may wish to link with:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/8874/fictive.html
I'll add a link to your's.
many thanks,
AZ
Submitted by: Alan Zinn (azinn@netbox.com)
User comments for the Tintypes site
Avishai
I was pleased to find your website. I too collect early photographs
and I have
a particular fondness for tintypes. I have a small site you might
like to check out:
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~msafier/photos/tintypes.html
From: Marcel Safier --- <msafier@ozemail.com.au>
I enjoy looking at old, old photos, so enjoy your site. Just thought I'd let you know that I tried to get to the tintypes and I kept getting server error. :-( Hope I can see them in the future! Thanks.
Submitted by: Bea (pgkoch@execpc.com)
(Australia)
My name is Sarah and I am 16 years old. I'm wanting to
congratulate the fine work I've been viewing throughout
your artistic sight. Photography is a passion of mine
and I get great inspiration from other artists. You have
definately inspired myself and I'm sure Fixing Shadows
does the same for others. Keep up the extraordinary
time and effort - it is all greatly appreciated. Bye
Submitted by: Sarah (bepgillon@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 01:38:52 -0400
Beautiful work! I'm recommending that my Anthropology and
Photography class take a look at your site!
From: Catherine Sylstra <starfive@cats.UCSC.edu>
This is a great site! Very interesting. I have appreciated
found photographs for a
couple of years; for the finder they offer a window into
an unknown world,
forcing us to speculate about what was happening. This seems
to me to be the
essence of photography.
Anyway, thanks. Maybe one day I will take a picture I can submit.
J.W.Lebus
student of Anthropology
U. of Louisville
From: Jesse Lebus --- <jwlebus@hotmail.com>
This is my first time to the sight. It was suggested to me by
one of my professors
since I am very interested in the present (and future) state
of still photographs
in anthropology. I am looking forward to the growth of
the enthnophotography
section. This area can produce much varies beautiful and
interesting work. It
can also be a great area for heated discussions on what anthropologists
should/could
photograph and how (aesthetics, technical elements). I
am looking foreward to the
near future of the use of photography in visual anthropology.
From: Sonya de Laat --- <delaatsn@mcmaster.ca>
hi
Hi lovely it is to look at those . I enjoy it
and go often to look at them .
very nice
Rita bourque
Submitted by: ritabouque (@sprint.ca)
Just checked your site out from a link in photoHistoryList, looks terrific...my favorite Eugene Smith item is the sign on his darkroom door, "No anticipation allowed", I've made a similar sign for my darkroom and it's proved its worth.
From: Bruce Erickson --- <berickson@hawaii.rr.com>
Tullio, Tanya & David Sapir, Thanks for your posts and hope
that you'll
speak up more on the list. David, Thanks for the link, the Fixing
Shadows
is an excellent site. Will study it more. Best Regards,
Ernst-Ulrich Schafer
I enjoy this site so much; it's in my favorites. I unwind with Francis Cooper. Thanks.
Submitted by: Sandi Smith (findit@iolwest.com)
A beautifully organized website, with content that's quite impressive. Perhaps you'd be interested in visiting my website (still very much under construction) and seeing some of the work I've been involved with. www.gmpanter.com
Submitted by: Gerald Panter (shadowfxr@aol.com)
Hello Mr.Sapir. I have enjoyed your website very much and have bookmarked it, waiting to see what other wonderful images you come up with. I am particularly interested in the historical and found photos section as that is where my interest lies. I collect and print from old negatives of all kinds and have begun to put them on my webpage to be viewed at: http://www.concentric.net/~jbdkrm/thumbnails.htm
I'm fairly new to computers and will be experimenting and changing it around as time permits. These images are highlights of some of the collections I've picked up over the years at various antique shows, flea markets, and estate sales over the years and I would love to share a few of them with your viewers. Let me know, and keep up the good work. Thanks, John
Your web page has be great in helping me study for a final exam in the History of Photography. Thanks, Rebecca Mitsch the University of Notre Dame
Wonderful!
It was a great surprise to encounter your web site (following a search for David Plowden--one of America's treasures.
Wonderful, fast web site. I'll be reviewing it in a Macintosh user group newsletter, and recommending it to my photo friends.
From: Roger C. Parker In response to a query about EW's: The world is full of sloppy bohemians
and their work betrays them. jds
Edward Weston was one of America's most famous and beloved modernist
photographers. He is associated with the California formalist group that
included Ansel Adams. He is best known for his peppers, shells, nudes,
sand dunes and toward the end of his life Cats. He shot many photos of
Point Lobos near Monterey CA where today you will find the Edward Weston
beach.
How wonderful - I live 60 miles from Monterey...
If you like that pithy remark I am sure you would enjoy reading through
the "Day Books of Edward Weston" edited in two volumes by Nancy Newhall.
I believe they have been reprinted.
Thank you...
I hope this helps
It sure does. And, you have a marvelous site. What an eye-popper..
Best regards, W. David Schwaderer
I love this site! I am a graphic designer/illustrater and sometimes
photographer. I use many of my ancestral photographs in my designs as well
as found photos. I am fascinated by ethnographic, historical, and geneaological
uses of photography. I will return when I am not out searching for an image
of accupuncture needles.
From: Ann I have neither the knowledge, nor the time, but Re: date for Maude photograph:
of interest might be the shoes--they appear to tie but construction seems
a bit odd; newspaper, note overall size and wide bottom border--this might
be a hint, obviously lead type; hat; blouse--note sleeves seem to be buttoned,
but can't tell detail; skirt--what is the seam/patch; hard to tell, but
what race is she--features may give clue to where she's from and from that
where and when she is in photo; lastly, the outdoor shot almost seems to
be in a studio--what do you think? Maybe these ideas will put someone on
the right track. you will find Maude Over is the Woods on the found
photo page. jds
From: Dave Clark Thanks for the lovely Lewis Carroll page! I'm a second grade teacher
and we just finished AIW on Friday. My kids were wondering what Alice looked
like and the Carroll biography is out at the library. They'll be happy
to see what I found! -rr
From: Rebekah Rogers Re: found photos on Fixing Shadows site
What a wonderful selection of images! I'm especially taken with the
ice skating shot and the one of the 2 trains. In fact, I would be interested
in purchasing either or both of these. Would you please let me know if
you'd be interested in selling them?
Thank you.
From: James Nocito Always enjoy your site. Thanks
From: Ray What beautiful work... I shoot often in Mexico barrios, but my work
doesn't compare with yours! Thanks for sharing.
From: Joan Maricle Loved your photograph in honor of L'Adventura, very subtle. (I was checking
your web site).
John Bishop
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 09:05:41 -0400
Dear Mr. Sapir,
I have just visited your website for the first time and was suprised
and pleased to see the first image ("Pleasures of Daguerreotyping Rural
Scenes") on the Found Images section. For an exhibit I am currently mounting
at the Princeton University Archives I am using a student scrapbook from
the 1850s into which the student pasted this same cartoon. I would be very
interested to know the original location of this cartoon (or the one you
know of, since it may have appeared several places).
Is this your personal page, or a page authored by a group of individuals?
So far I've enjoyed it very much.
Melissa Johnson
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 05:16:15 -0400
I have many old photographs I took half a century ago and some in between
with a few inherited from the early 1900s. When I die they will be thrown
away. If any are of interest I would like to find a home for them for those
who come after us.
Ref: Maude over in the woods. A friend who is somewhat expert in old
fashions and antiques tells me:
The shirt and skirt are somewhere shortly after 1900; probably about
1905.
However, the shoes do not seem to fit that time frame. Look much later.
Notice the soles of the shoes.
Jack P. Gibson
1006 Pine Ridge Dr
Rockingham, NC 28379
910/895-5189
PS: Take a ride over the mountain and check out the historical section
of the Waynesboro, VA public library.
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 21:56:36 -0400
Hello J. David- excellent site with good images and variety- surfed
upon it while looking for well designed locations to send some images-
would you be interested in seeing some material for your ethno page? Let
me know and thanks for creating Fixing Shadows! Keep fixing shadows.....
From: tim --- Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 09:29:23 -0400
I nearly fainted when I saw the words, "straight photography" on your
page! How fine, indeed. Your site is excellent...and as a twenty year 'veteran'
of straight photograph in a postmodern mileau, I am so relieved to find
community on the web. An animal without her herd, is a dying animal...
When Szarkowski wrote, "The world is an artist of incomparable inventiveness",
he codified what had already been made clear by Winogrand, Frank, Arbus,
et al in their photographs...a respect for the subject, and a respect for
the medium.. I could go on..."It's like opening a tiny door, once you accept
the medium for what it is, the WHOLE WORLD is open to you..." (William
Maguire) How limiting is THAT! I have just begun posting my work on the
web (in the last three days!), learning html...but there is something to
see...honest... this is not spam... http://geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/7101/index.html
thanks for a great site!!! and the boost I needed today!
Submitted by: pforthmanphoto@webtv.net (Priscilla Forthman)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:34:48 -0500
For all manner of reasons I think your site is quite delightful (OK,
I'll come clean, I know some of the photographers whose works you are showing).
It seems to me to be a quite calm outpost in an otherwise mad world. Thank
you for the effort.
Oh, and I'm going to write about in the New Zealand Journal of Photography.
I'll email you a copy of my text.
Submitted by: lumiere@xtra.co.nz (Peter Turner)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:24:29 -0500
Exelente pagina Felicitaciones Tengo interes en encontrar fotografias
de chile , pais sud americano gracias.
Submitted by: jmoreno@abello.dic.uchile.cl (JOSE MORENO F.)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:30:51 -0500 from the Tintype page
hi! I would like to use one of your images in an essay. I am currently
studying for a city and guilds in photography and am compiling a piece
on early photography. The use of the image would be for purely study purposes.
Could you possibly give me a little more info on image pose5
Submitted by: andyr@yellowpages.co.uk (Andy Rumsey)
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 20:40:17 -0500
Hello J. David Sapir,
I came upon Fixing Shadows via Afterimage's website. It was a real treat,
and especially so, to know that others revere "straight" photography. Well,
maybe I'm not so straight since I am a long time (since 1972) pinhole photographer.
I would like to invite you to my site http://pages.prodigy.com/WVHC74C/
and it's links to other sites of my work. Right now,'til March 7th, 55
of my pinhole photos are at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts in
Farmville, Va. under the titles "Remembering the Civil War" and "Southland"(ruins
and graves). Also "Civil War Medcine", featuring blowups of vintage Civil
War photos of M. Brady and company , artifacts, and a surgical tent set-up,
is on view. I give a gallery talk on Thursday the 26th at 1:30. Georgia
Coopersmith, the Director of LVAC, has done a super job as the curator
of the exhibitions. Thought you might be interested. History and Photography
are a viable combo for this occasion. Thanks for letting me do a bit of
self promotion. If you think my work is appropriate, please link my page
to your page and, if you wish, I'll link yours to mine.
Willie Anne Wright
email: jwright5@ix.nrtcom.com
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:42:21 -0500
I absolutely love Fixing Shadows!!! It is the kind of website that brings
a person back again and again--like a wonderful coffeetable book. I only
wish that I had a computer/modem that was faster so that I could get around
the page faster, with greater ease.
Submitted by: jtlink@mindspring.com (Joan Link)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:07:21 -0500
GREAT Home Page!!! As a Photography educator, I am pleased that there
is such a web page for my students to accesss. Please keep up the good
work, and thanks for the opportunity to visit.
Submitted by: (John Sullivan)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:31:40 -0500 (EST)
Hi -- just found your site haphazardly and look forward to taking a
closer look!
I am writing b/c I need to get into contact with J. David Sapir. I am
working on a PBS doc and have received a photo print from Utah of Utah
that is credited to another Sapir. We want to use this picture (deserted
wiekiup at White Rocks, 909) in our film, and though I believe it is the
public domain, I would like to check with you about permissions to use.
Please contact me as soon as possible, as we are now trying to clear everything
with the project before turning it in to the WGBH Educational Foundation
in a few weeks. My number is 213-460-6486 and my name is Helen Scheer
Submitted by: scheerhh@aol.com (Helen Scheer)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 13:47:45 -0400
L'Aventura is a nice shot. It presented a very pleasing visual impression
as it was downloading.
Submitted by: adams@nc3a.nato.int (Michael Adams)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:55:18 -0400 (EDT)
Well, you are the first person to comment on this shot. I took it in
1971 as an ectachrome slide. It sat in a box and when I came to have it
printed it was in horrible condition. So I scanned it at 300 dpi and started
cleaning it up in PhotoShop. I got a VERY nice hard copy via Kodak's new
digital gizmo - much better than I expected. The 72 dpi version that I
posted on fixing shadows (the one you saw) could be a lot better, it lacks
important detail. Your note reminds me that I should try to fix it. Thanks
for your interest and thanks for your interest in the site. I'll take a
look at your web site. Unfortunately, Paul Baldasere is not connected to
the web. Hopefully Peter Marshall who is also in London will forward your
comment to him.
J. David Sapir
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:10:56 -0400
It's a wonderful site....I like the "instant ancestors" as we call them
(found photos of people you don't know). Our family, here in Northern Michigan,
has foumd and donated to the Western Michigan University Archives, hundreds
of letters and photos collected by my Grandfather.
Submitted by: akaart@hotmail.com (Katherine Lambert)
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:09:04 -0400
I love your website! It's great to see straight photography. I specialize
in black and white documentary photography. Please check out my website
at: Thank you,
Submitted by: images@infoave.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 15:38:17 -0700
Thank you. Fixing Shadows is an attractive web site. There doesn't seem
to be much straight photography coming out of the fine art schools today.
The people at the university where I received a BFA in 1994 were artists
who used photography, rather than photographers.
Herman Krieger
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 10:39:33 -0400
enjoyed visiting the site, and was impressed by the picture quality.
once viewing the photos though it was difficult to navigate back to the
home page or top page of artist.
look forward to returning soon.
Submitted by: dplowden@brattle.com (Daniel Plowden)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 00:50:02 -0400
Comments about the Tintypes page
Interesting gallery! I have been searching for Lippmann process color
photos, but they seem lost in history...any ideas?
Submitted by: hologram@well.com (Jeffrey )
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:18:05 -0500
Comments about the Tintypes page
Hello-have enjoyed your page immensely. Am looking for a source where
I can have some tintypes of my grandmother and great-uncle touched up....they
were in a basement trunk until last year, and have a few spots ??? on them-am
afraid to use someone local until getting some type of a reference....I
am in Lynchburg, Va......
I also have one of them with their caregiver in 1896 that is in perfect
condition, though small. Thanks for your help. Sue Jenkins
Submitted by: Suejenkins@aol.com (Sue Jenkins)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 15:20:58 -0500
Comments on the Tintype page
Thanks for the historical info. I've been scavenging for tintypes &
old photos for a couple of years now, and was curious about the years involved.
I've got a whole album in which the family members are labeled. I've tracked
them down to a town in NY and plan to go to its graveyard & find their
birth & death dates. My friends think it's weird. I think it'll make
them seem more human. Just got two particularly cool photos: a tintype
of a man in a bathing suit & a turn of century card with a child praying
next to her large dog, who's also in prayer position. ta ta - dominique
Submitted by: sunnyday@megahits.com (dominique)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:30:57 -0500
Came by your page and was impressed with both the format and the work
shown there, I am the Arts Editor for Webscout the Autralian Search Engine
at http://www.webcom.com/webscout. Would like to feature your site in this
month's submissions but need to know whom to contact. Also would love to
link with my page (personal request) at http://jaegerart.com.
Please respond your interest as to either proposal, they are divisible,
of course.
Thanks in advance, Phil Jaeger
Submitted by: jaeger@wdc.net (Phillip Jaeger)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:46:10 -0500
great tintypes!! thank you very much for putting it on the web. It has
helped me a lot in my ARt History class project of identifying a few old
photos.
Submitted by: sudeep@unm.edu (sudeep rao)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 97 00:57:21 -0800
Thank you.
I spent quite a lot of time in the Lewis Carroll area. The photographs
of little Alice have haunted me for years. I wanted to see if my Mind's
Eye remembered accurately. It did!
I'm a writer. While working on a piece for the Antique Trader Weekly
about the classic print - Cupid Awake/Cupid Asleep by M. B. Parkinson,
flashes of Carroll's Alice photographs kept appearing in my brain. Could
his earlier shots has been instrumental in the later shots of Josephine
Anderson, Parkinson's model?
I've seen several other shots of usually young girl's posed like this
picture. All seem especially volumptuous or fragile or "knowing"
Have you had the same experience?
Also, do you have any information on Parkinson. I am totally unsuccessful
in finding any information about the person (see, I don't even know if
it's a she or a he! :)
I shall anticipate your reply. Thanks for your time and for any assistance
you can give me.
Joan Bramsch
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:16:35 -0500
I'm in Advanced Photography at tom C. Clark H.S. in San Antonio, TX
and the photographs that I've seen are really amazing. To the photographers,
kudos to you.
Submitted by: (Kelly J. Luinstra)
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 11:57:20 -0500
I have watched your works on the web. It's cool !! Thank you.
Submitted by: yg4t-smym@asahi-net.or.jp (Tetsuya Shimoyama)
Date: 19 Dec 96 15:02 EST
Dear author, I really enjoyed looking at your pages, especially the
Lewis Carroll photos. It's a wonderful site that I had not expected on
the Web. Your setup of the pages is simple and tasteful and the background
colours are very convenient. These simple photos of Alice Liddell touch
me every time I see them. Your reproductions or scannings are perfect!
I compliment you to this website and will certainly look through all the
other pages, also the literary ones.
I also wonder how quickly the photos load on the screen. Do you use
a special technique for this sake or is your server a very powerful one?
I wish you Merry Christmas and all the best! Sincerely, Dr.P.F. Walter
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:01:29 -0500
I like the interactive page. A great deal of thought has gone into this
section.
Submitted by: gebhard@itsa.ucsf.edu (Ilona Gebhard)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:27:20 -0400
Congratulations! What a beautiful work! I'm truly amazed particularly
with what you have done to the picture of the Baker automobile. Sorry if
I'm overdoing my enthusiasm, but you've managed to use technology in a
way I've always wanted but had no means to. I'll be a frequent visitor
here.
Thanks
Submitted by: i.alfano@svn.com.br (Ines Alfano)
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 10:10:21 -0500 (EST)
About Abby on the Found Photo page:
"The invention of the mirror is slightly more important than the discovery
of molasses," thought A to hereself. She listened to the pinecones falling
in the yard outside and began to smile. The Civil War had been fought over
bacon and now electric guitars were just around the corner.........
Submitted by: gailmax@primenet.com (max)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 23:18:52 -0400
I was only sailing, then I found this wonderful site. I have no suggestions
now, but I'll visit here and recommend to my friends. Speccially, I liked
a lot Lewis Carrol page. Sorry for my poor english.
Submitted by: daniellevalim@quasar.com.br (Danielle)
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 96 21:46:29 -700
Got a good laugh at the Gauguin gag (pretty alliterative, wasn't that!)!
Just breezing through and will definitely earmark this one. I live in Morocco
and teach English. But, really, I'm a photographer and videographer and
Morocco has been on the Net since February 1996! I pay $70/month to be
online. So, I'm goin to speed on my way. Ta Taaaaaaa........
From: michael schneblin Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 22:11:26 -0400
In brief: Wonderful.
So, more explicitly ... the parameters of "found" photographs???
What constitutes interesting? Do you have cut-offs dates? et cetera
et cetera ...
Submitted by: hgcourt@cais.com (Glenn Court)
Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 16:01:28
Your content is exemplary. I appreciate the work that has gone into
putting this page together. However, your background colors, espeicially
on page 1, need to be rethought.
Submitted by: glashaus@dnai.com (T.J. Coen)
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 19:38:13
From: Mike Kelly I live in Colorado, which is in the United States. I have been stimulated
by Fixing Shadows for months. I reflect some prints in a lamp in my living
room. Thank you. I shall keep returning.
Mike Kelly
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 21:00:53
keep up the great work!
Submitted by: don't have one (Alison C. Richards)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 20:03:05
my name is mario perez this is the first time i have check out a web
sight. i am a photographer here on the island of kauai. i am soon to get
on the web. it seem very interesting.
Submitted by: (Mario Perez)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 22:35:45
You have a very enjoyable site - I'm putting a bookmark on it. Basically
what I'm looking for is portrait photographs of old men. If you have suggestions
I would appreciate any info! Thanks again for your site. librarian@bbs.rippers.com
Submitted by: librarian@bbs.rippers.com (Barbara)
Hello, David!
This is VERY impressive. I haven't looked at everything---far from it.
Congratulations.
I hope to get the Apaches interested in starting a page. I should talk
with you and get some help.
Charlie Kaut
Submitted by: crk4s@virginia.edu ( C. Kaut)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 03:44:17
I love it! How does the zoom feature work (where you click on a portion
of the photo)? Are you taking uploads? I have a great series of photos
from the 20's.
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 11:40:59
I enjoyed your photographs of Africa. And appreciate the well-designed
looseness of the larger project. Thanks.
Submitted by: david-andrews@utk.edu (David Andrews)
From: ThePsyche@aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:40:32 -0500
Subject: SHADOWS
In september, at the tender age of 40, I began my adventure in the field
of black and white photography. I started with a History of Photog. class
and went crazy. I am hooked!
Now, for this winter quarter, I am taking my first darkroom lab.....photo
100. I am developing my own negatives, and making my own prints and finding
the entire experience delightful.
I shall visit your site often and heed your advice. I am only now beginning
to understand how they eyes can turn this color filled world into shades
of gray, light and dark with each look through the view finder.
Thanks for an entertaining and informative page! Paula Benson
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 21:16:12 -0400
Congratulations! Nice pictures. Keep going :)
Submitted by: miramon@ip.pt (Miguel Maio)
From: Jim Hughes Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 13:44:17 -0500
David: thought you'd like to see this.
Jim
--- Forwarded message -----
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 23:01:30 -0800
From: "Shane F. Iseminger" Subject: fixing shadows etc (long winded)
>I am using 'unmanipulated' to mean that what appears in the >final
print is what was before the camera at the moment the >photograph was taken.
In this regard Edw Weston's peppers are >unmanipulated, although he placed
the peppers in the opening of >the drain pipe (I think that is where he
put them).
it would help if we all spoke the same language. According to the Hypertext
Webster Interface (http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster - couldn't
find a dictionary around the office ma.nip.u.late \m*-'nip-y*-.la-t\ \-.la-t-iv\ \-.la-t-*r\ \-l*-.to-r-e-,
-.to.r-\ vt [back-formation fr. manipulation] 1: to treat or operate with
the hands or by mechanical means esp. with skill 2a: to manage or utilize
skillfully 2b: to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious
means esp. to one's own advantage 3: to change by artful or unfair means
so as to serve one's purpose : DOCTOR - ma.nip.u.la.tive aj
I couldn't find anything referring to digital imaging. How did "manipulation"
come to mean "photoshopped" ? To treat or operate with the hands? Doesn't
that vaguely sound similar to 'arranging' ?
>Manipulation to me comes in when operations beyond the usual >printing
come into play. Removal of "noise" as they say in the >digital world.
'Usual printing' can include so much . . . I'm starting to feel like
a broken record, but manipulation can happen before the film is even exposed.
>The birds are still lifes - obviously set ups. But Carol's >camera
reports the exact arrangement.
Probably so. But it then does not fall under the "unmanipulated" category.
There are enough politicians twisting words in this world . . .
>I find, overall, this to be a non discussion. Unmanipulated >photography
means what I chose it to mean. As simple as that.
Sure, but when you choose your own meaning of words and then use them
to communicate is where the problem lies. No pun intended. I can choose
"photo" to mean "a small bird that lives on the beaches of new Zealand"
but that doesn't exactly help my communication skills. When you say that
a photograph is not manipulated when it has not been digitally altered,
you insinuate that there is no other form of alteration.
>Carol is not moving pyramids around and claiming that the new >position
is the real position.
If I remember right, National Geo did say, in some obscure, fine-print
way,
that their imfamous cover was manipulated, Scitex style. What caused
the uproar was that they did it in the first place.
Back to the topic . . . it's great that we recognize the dangers of
moving pyramids in a scitex system, but people have been slower to realize
the dangers of other incarnations of manipulation. A good carpenter never
blames his tools.
Shane Iseminger
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 10:29:13
You have created quite a stir on nppa-l with your page and the use of
the term, "unmanipulated images". Rather than speculate, I decided to go
to the source and ask what YOU mean by that term? Is it objects photographed
as found and not moved? The birds look placed in position. Or, is it meant
to mean, "not altered in printing,"? This is a concept I have a hard time
buying into. Maybe it's something else.
To a photojournalist, an unmnipulated image usually means one that was
photograpphed as found without interfearence from the photographer. The
purist would go so far as to insist on using only found light without the
addition of strobe, reflectors, etc.
Submitted by: messinger@earthlink.net (Joe Messinger)
[unmanipulated was changed to straight as in "Triple
Scotch Straight UP" (Fixing Shadows).]
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 13:57:28
Dear David,
this is the first time that I visit your home page and I liked the group
which I found under 'Edward'. What a beautiful scene, what a spiritus loci.
I would have liked to be in this place and with those people. That's the
magic of photography, a flying carpet. Thanks for letting me visit your
home page, but some time I would like to visit you in person and in the
place were you live. Best wishes. Ivo
PS. If you want to reply please use the following address:
IStreck@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de
When we have installed our scanner I will want to send you some photographs
from Hamar. Best wishes. Ivo
Submitted by: IStreck@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Ivo Strecker)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 10:04:06
I really enjoyed your collection of daguerrotypes.
Submitted by: mike@mail.mixedmedia.com (Mike)
Date 12 Dec 1995 17:29:01 +1000
To: ds8s@virginia.edu
From: James McArdle
Hi, Thank you for your great website "Fixing Shadows" to which I have
directed many of our students via our bibliographies, particularly for
a Third Year segment dealing with Family Photographs. I am interested in
contributing my own work that deals with relationships via focal effects
(in camera) and symbolic use of the background. Some examples are viewable
at the URL below - please tell me if this is appropriate for your pages.
Regards
James McArdle Lecturer in Photography
Dept. Art & Design
School of Arts Latrobe University Bendigo
P.O Box 199 Bendigo, Victoria, Australia 3550
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:47:18
Three years ago, at a Kyoto temple sale, I bought a small, brown paper
bag full of old photos dating from the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Most of the photographs seem to be snapshots sent home by the soldiers;
a few are portraits. Some had kanji on the back which, when translated,
led me to believe that the snaps were indeed personal photos. The formats
range from approximately 1/2"x 1" to 5"x7"; all are in black and white.
If you'd be interested, I would love to share these photos. I can be reached
at the University of Southern California at 213-740-0890 or by email vvail@bcf.usc.edu.
I also spent a year leading safaris in East and Equatorial Africa and have
some unusual photos from that experience.
Torrie Kirkham
Submitted by: vvail@bcf.usc.edu (Torrie Vail Kirkham)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 17:58:22
http://www.stritch.edu/djgorzek/PhotoJ.html This is a photo site I put
up as part of a computer class I am taking. It leads to a personal photojournalism
portfolio.
I may fit in to your page.
Submitted by: djgorzek@acs.stritch.edu (Don Gorzek)
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 21:27:38
i'm pleased to make your acquaintance. i'm compiling fine images into
portfolios for presentation, from urban guerilla to fine landscape. these
are images i've captured over a span of twenty years in or near puget sound.
i've tried to get an answer on some way to present them as a fine collection:
no one can agree. Do you know how the greats
fine monochrome silver gelatin puget sound landscapes from 4x5 via schneider
optics on a Wisner box. also, urban guerilla type shots from 35 and very
personal night shots.
Submitted by: crispy@eskimo.com (Christopher Petrich)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 11:26:58
Fixing Shadows
Greetings from South Carolina. Enjoyed your web page and will return
often to see what's new. One small correction for you - it is Abbeville
not Abbeyville. Good luck with future donations.
Submitted by: Bilderback-Beth@sc.edu (Beth Bilderback)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 18:53:19
Hi David,
Great looking page!
I just put up a page and would like to see if you would be interested
in displaying my photos. Please see my gallery at: http://www.halcyon.com/cjlew/
I will warn you that it is a commercial site that contains a gallery. Also
would you like to link to my page? Thanks for any comments.
Submitted by: cjlew@halcyon.com (Carl Lew)
Nov 1995 15:40:48 -0500
I would possibly like to contribute to the the photo page. In addition
I rerquest premission to add a link from my home page to your page. Some
of my photos are on my page which you can check out.
thanks, Al. Sacco
Submitted by: asac@conncoll.edu (Al Sacco)
David, I saw your notice for FIXING SHADOWS on the Viscom list and came
to take a look. I liked the open structure of the site and the feeling
that it really was being shaped by contributions that were being discovered
as you went along with the project rather than having some fixed, strickly
formal concept at the start. This I think is one of the great potentials
of the Web. Cynthia Close DER Executive Director
David, DER has a WEB site which includes a rather extensive photo collection
related to the films or taken by the filmmakers whose work we distribute.
Some of it is archival/historical in nature. It may be accessed from our
Homepage via the URL: http://der.org/docued The photo collection may be
accessed directly via: http://der.org/docued/pics We continue to work on
our site and are in the process of creating links between the photos, the
film synopsis, and biographies and news provided to us by the filmmakers
who for the most part are anthropologists/archaeologists/documentarians
If you feel this material would be of interest we would appreciate a link
to your site. Thanks for the opportunity.
Submitted by: cclose@delphi.com (Cynthia Close)
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 22:48:44
An ambitious undertaking and a fine start. I was impressed by the Vilna
material.
Good luck. Best,
NU
http://www.csn.net/~nulevich
Submitted by: nulevich@csn.org (Neal Ulevich)
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 08:48:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Abbot Chambers Subject: Whole Internet Catalog
Congrats on maintaining such a great Web site! On Tuesday, GNN will
be adding a link to Fixing Shadows to our online Whole Internet Catalog.
While not a sure thing, you may see your access levels jump once we add
the link. If the increased traffic is a problem, let us know and we'll
remove the link or replace it with a mirror site.
Thanks! Abbot Chambers
Abbot Chambers Editor, Whole Internet Catalog http://gnn.com/wic/index.html
abbot@ora.com Global Network Navigator (GNN) O'Reilly & Associates
Sebastopol, CA 707.829.0515 ext.281
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 09:57
David, I printed a copy of your home page and used it last week along
with a selection of other Web Pages dealing with photography and/or museums
as an overhead projection (not distributed) in a talk I gave at a NYSCA
conference on automation in Museums. Aside from being in Saratoga Springs
which is nice, the whole affair was disappointingly mundane - the usual
pissing and moaning about 'no money'. I was last on the program doing 'Internet
& Museums' - which, indeed, appears to be the future, rather than the
present, for most of this group. Only one among the attendees has a Web
Page (http://www.netresource.com/mcny/home.html).
Yours is among the more interesting to me precisely be- cause of its
implied variety - it doesn't give the sense which many do of being totally
nailed down (of all the things students fail to learn, why is it that the
6th grade (for me) introduction to outlining reappears years - a generation
- later in such rigid/predictable structures.
Andy Eskind
George Eastman House
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the same look I see in Alice's eyes. One can peer
into her soul. I don't especially like what I see there.
Ansel Adams, the Westons, Eisenstadt, DDDuncan,
Cartier-Bresson
presented their stuff for private collectors or
museums? For example, was Adams' portfolio one dry mounted with an overmat
and presented in a box? gratefully christopher petrich crispy@eskimo.com