DISCUSSION TOPIC: EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY -- A SNAPSHOT VIEW
Browse in a number of the following sites. Identify at least three photographs to print and to bring to class:
Photographs From The World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896:
Approximately 900 images of North Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania from
the American photographer William Henry Jackson.
Images Of Colonial Africa: Photographs by the American missionary Laura Collins.
Adul Hamid II Collection: An extensive series of images of the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the century from the US Library of Congress.
Empire That Was Russia -- The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated:
Small-Town America -- Stereoscopic Views From The Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920:
Stereographs Of The West From The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection, ca. 1858-1906: