Videos about photography: Arbus, Bresson, Eggleston and Levine
December 19th, 2007
Today Shana Lindsay and I made four 5-minute videos using Jing about four different photographers. The videos are also available at the smARThistory site.
Click here to watch a video about Diane Arbus’ Boy with a Toy Grenade (1962).
Click here to watch a video of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris (1932).
Click here to watch a video about William Eggleston’s Red ceiling, or Greenwood, Mississippi (1973).
Click here to watch a video about Sherri Levine’s (Untitled) After Edward Weston (1981).
Two paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite, John Everett Millais
October 26th, 2007
Click here to watch a short video podcast about Millais’ painting Christ in the House of His Parents, 1850 (Tate Britain)
Click here to watch a short video podcast about Millais’ painting, Ophelia, 1852 (Tate Britain)
Goya, Politics, & the Power of Images
September 2nd, 2007
My online students got into a heated discussion about how Enrico Scrovegni, the patron of Giotto’s frescos in the Arena Chapel, asked Giotto to depict him handing the chapel to the angels and Virgin Mary in heaven — thus implying a kind of virtuousness about himself, that the students felt to be a kind of potentially false representation.
So, we made this vodcast about how images can be used to support specific political agendas, focusing on the famous painting by Goya, The Third of May, 1808.
Warning: There are some difficult images in this video that may not be appropriate for all ages.
Click here to see a larger version.
