Spanning 120 years of photographic history, this first authoritative aesthetic study includes 240 examples of art photography from masters such as Steichen and Stieglitz.
In addressing the larger issues of this paper’s subject, the authors describe a Lehman college workshop designed to prepare students for a discussion of Mary Whalen’s “A Night Sonnet So Far.” The authors note the university’s participation in Lincoln Center Institute’s “inquiry-based learning” program and its complementary relationship with their Writing across the Curriculum program (WAC).
Reviewer Roberts cites this unique work for its commentary on “the literary strategizing of photographers” and the role of photography and literature in the development of “modernism.”
Editor Pauli’s 2006 genre survey has been called “the first major history of staged photography.”
Professor Snider views the work of Edward Lear through the lens of Carl Jung. Citing Karl Kerényi’s discussion of the trickster, he notes that Lear used disorder in his nonsense verse to give the Victorian reader an experience of what was not permitted in society within the confines of what was permitted.
Vince Gotera reviews “Woman with a Cubed Head” by Julie Moulds—Mary Whalen’s collaborator on “A Night Sonnet So Far.”
This brief biographical sketch highlights Whalen’s collaboration with poet Julie Moulds. Entitled “A Night Sonnet So Far” and inspired by the limericks of Edward Lear, their chapbook is a collection of work from both artists.
Julia Margaret Cameron, a renowned female photographer of the nineteenth century, took portraits of almost everyone she knew, from famous literary figures to family members and servants. Cameron made use of props, costumes, and carefully chosen settings to create fanciful images of the people who posed for her.
This Web site accompanies the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition of Julia Margaret Cameron’s portraits of women. The curator’s note discusses how, by placing her subjects in inventive settings, the photographer created stylistically unique images. Her fascinating combination of melancholy and whimsy recalls certain themes in Whalen’s portraits and pinhole photographs.
This kid-friendly Web site offers information on Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense and images of his zoological drawings, as well as his poems and stories.
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