What's New in the Prints & Photographs
Division
February - May 2007
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W.W. Norton/Library
of Congress Visual Sourcebooks |
Book
launch: two new W.W. Norton/Library
of Congress Visual Sourcebooks
Wednesday,
May 9, 2007, 6:30-8 pm
Madison Hall, James
Madison Building, 1st floor
Co-sponsored by the Library of
Congress, the Latrobe Chapter
of the Society of Architectural
Historians, and the National Capital
Section of the American Society
of Civil Engineers
A
celebration of the publication
of Bridges by
Richard L. Cleary and Lighthouses by
Sarah E. Wermiel, with illustrated
presentations, reception and book
signing.
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Hope
Saska presents talk "Of
Attitude and Action: William
Hogarth and the Art of Gesture"
Tuesday,
April 10, 2007, at 12 noon
Dining
Room A, James Madison Building,
6th floor
Co-sponsored by the Swann Foundation
for Caricature and Cartoon and
the Prints and Photographs Division
In an illustrated public lecture,
Swann Fellow Hope Saska will focus
on the relationship between the
world of theater and the work of
William Hogarth (1697-1764) and
other British satirists. At a time
when actors were urged to study
the fine arts, particularly history
painting and ancient sculpture,
for examples of gesture and expression
to enliven the characters they
portrayed on stage, Hogarth turned
to theatrical metaphor to describe
his two-dimensional “performances” on
canvas and the engraved page.
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Lighthouses:
A Norton/Library of Congress
Visual Sourcebook
The fourth title in the Norton/Library
of Congress series, this abundantly
illustrated book discusses the
development of forms, materials,
architecture, and engineering,
covering lighthouses from all parts
of the United States from the late
eighteenth century to the 1940s.
Full citation:
Sara E. Wermiel Lighthouses:
A Norton/Library of Congress Visual
Sourcebook. New York:
W.W. Norton; Washington, D.C:
Library of Congress, 2006.
More
information (via Norton web
site)
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Cover of FSA:The
American Vision
by Gilles Mora and Beverly Brannan |
FSA:The
American Vision
Gilles
Mora and P&P photography curator
Beverly Brannan delved into the
vast Farm Security Administration/Office
of War Information Collection,
which has yielded many popularly
published images, to offer a new
view of the achievement of the
Farm Security Administration photographers
through less-seen photographs.
Full citation: Gilles Mora and
Beverly Brannan, FSA:The American
Vision. New York: Abrams, 2006.
More
information (via Abrams web
site)
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"A
World Apart:
Photos Document the Middle East
and Its Past"
Article in the Library of
Congress Information Bulletin October
issue by cataloger Arden Alexander
highlighting a recent program
sponsored by the Prints and Photographs
Division. Well-illustrated presentations
by speakers from four libraries
and archives introduced the audience
to significant collections of
Armenian, Jewish, Islamic and
general Middle Eastern images.
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article
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American
Colony Photo Dept., photographer.
Druze women baking bread, [between
1900 and 1920]
LC-DIG-matpc-01209
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Herman A. "Germany" Schaefer
during the Washington Senators
visit to play the New York Highlanders,
April, 1911.
LC-DIG-ggbain-09131
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Prints & Photographs
Online:
Catalog Offers More Than 1 Million
Images
Article in the Library of
Congress Information Bulletin June
issue by Acting Chief, Helena
Zinkham, describing the division's
digitization program, on the
occasion of the completion of
the millionth scan.
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article
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Webcasts
Webcasts
of public programs relating to
Prints & Photographs Division
activities and collections are now
available. Includes presentations
by artists, presentations relating
to P&P collections, and presentations
relating to visual librarianship.
Recently added: The Photographs of
Marilyn Nance. |
Clockwise
from upper left: Hilary Mac Austin
and Kathleen Thompson discussing Children
of the Depression; Mary
Mundy talking about cataloging
born-digital images; John Vlach
discussing his publication, Barns;
Comic Book Artists and Illustrators
and 9/11 panel discussion. |
Additional Library of Congress events
are listed on the Library
Today page
All are available through the Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
Gertrude Käsebier
photographs
Käsebier's depictions of
women, American Indians, and themes
such as motherhood can now be seen
online in scans of a rare set of
100 glass negatives. The images
provide evidence of the source
material from which Käsebier
made the prints that earned her
a reputation as one of the leading
pictorial photographers of her
time.
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images and descriptions |
Gertrude Käsebier,
photographer. Amos Two Bulls, a Sioux
Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Show, ca. 1900.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-12090
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Bernard Gotfryd,
photographer. Mother Teresa, 1971.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-12453 |
Bernard Gottfryd
Portraits
Bernard Gotfryd photographed many
of the mid-20th century’s
most notable individuals while
working as a photojournalist for
Newsweek magazine for more than
30 years. A selection of 44 portraits
shows people who had a major impact
in fields as varied as religion,
politics, literature, and the arts.
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images and descriptions
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Konrad Fiedler's
Darfur Refugee Camp Photographs
Six digital photographs by Konrad
Fiedler showing individuals and
groups from Darfur in a refugee
camp, May 2004.
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images and descriptions
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Konrad Fiedler, photographer.
Sudanese refugee children at
Camp Tine, Chad, 2004
May 10.
LC-DIG-ppbd-00346
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Reference information is available from
the Information
for Researchers, Lists
of Images on Popular Topics and Collection
Guides and Finding Aids pages.
Warren K. Leffler, photographer.
Civil rights march on Washington,
D.C., 1963 Aug. 28.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03130 |
The Civil Rights Era in the U.S.
News & World Report Photographs
Collection (select list)
Sixteen images taken by U.S. News & World
Report photographers of activities
and events during the struggle
for African American civil rights,
1959-1970. Includes tips for finding
further images on the topic.
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reference aid
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Pictorial Americana additions:
Music, Motion Pictures, and Minstrels
Three additional chapters in Pictorial
Americana, a web site offering
selections originally made for
a 1955 publication, Pictorial
Americana: A Select List of Photographic
Negatives in the Prints and Photographs
Division of the Library of Congress. Staff
have added tips for finding further
images on the topics represented.
View Pictorial
Americana table of contents
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Prof. Thad Sheridan Fritz's
phonograph festival, print,
1890.
LC-USZ62-8279 |
Items from the Prints & Photographs
Division are well represented in the
following Library of Congress exhibitions. A
full list of Library of Congress exhibitions
is available on the Exhibitions
page.
Herblock, artist, Quitting
time and all’s well,
1976.
Published in the Washington
Post, October 3, 1976. Herbert
L. Block Collection
LC-DIG-ppmsca-11972
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Enduring Outrage:
Herblock Cartoons
American Treasures from the Library
of Congress, Southwest Gallery,
2nd floor, Thomas
Jefferson Building
July 17, 2006 - Feb. 3, 2007
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Stephen Lawson
photograph
American Treasures from the Library
of Congress, Southwest Gallery,
2nd floor, Thomas
Jefferson Building
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Stephen Lawson,
photographer, Energy Equation:
MEPCO's Wade Run Mine #1, near Maidsville,
W.Va. , copyright 1992. Gift
of Kent and Marcia Minichiello.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-12374
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Glen Fleischmann,
artist. Wedding photograph
scene, [between 1945 and 1955]
Cover for Nation's Business, © Nation's
Business.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and
Caricature
LC-DIG-ppmsca-09439
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Cartoon America:
Highlights from the Art Wood Collection
of Cartoon and Caricature
Great Hall, Thomas
Jefferson Building
Nov. 2, 2006 - Feb. 24, 2007
Features 100 masterworks by
various artists, including political
cartoons, comic strips, gag cartoons,
caricatures, animation drawings
and cels, and illustrations.
More
information
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On the Cutting
Edge: Contemporary Japanese Prints
Great Hall Galleries, 1st floor, Thomas
Jefferson Building
March 29, 2007 - June 30, 2007
More information
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Noboru Yamataka,
artist. Samurai House in Autumn,
2004. College Women's Association
of Japan Print Show Collection
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13143
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Information on the division's acquisitions
program is available on the Acquisition
and Appraisal Information page.
The lobby of the White House,
copyright 1904 by Detroit Photographic
Company.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-11634 |
White House Interior Photographs
Eight rare 16 x 20 inch, hand-colored
platinum photographs of the interior
of the White House, newly redecorated
after 1902 during President Theodore
Roosevelt’s administration.
Gift of Marjorie M. Fisher, 2006.
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images and descriptions | More
information
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Elihu Vedder
Elihu Vedder,
artist. Head of Minerva.
Oil painting. 1896
LC-DIG-ppmsca-10839
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Hugh Ferriss Architectural Rendering
Hugh
Ferriss, renderer. Study
for theater or opera house. Charcoal
drawing, ca. 1942.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-11684
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