public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags visualarts & history

01 December 2006

Media Art Net | Sitemap

English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet

Black Film Research Online

good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet

Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty

"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.

AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web

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narrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"

Flickhead

online film journal, offbeat and cult as well as international film covered

artists and art...the-artists.org

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extended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists

28 November 2006

James Elkins - Syllabi

many of this teacher's lectures on art, visual culture, and social issues are here, along with his syllabi

27 November 2006

Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc

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a very large historical archive, often from advertising, "to provide for all levels of possible viewer a visually orientated taxonomy of the ways in which pictures are used to tell stories." unique collection, also useful for many other purposes

22 November 2006

ArtLex on New Media

entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful

21 November 2006

Travel Photos - The Great Mirror

"a large and sprawling collection of photographs of cultural or humanized landscapes. The images are arranged geographically and are narratively sequenced and captioned to reflect the interests of a geographer."

20 November 2006

Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle

Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice

American Studies Electronic Crossroads

large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research

American Lesbian Photography - Home

"aim is to provide an overview over those lesbian photographers that took pictures of lesbians, and .. to discuss their photography in relation to the time in which they worked"

Aesthetics and Visual Culture

extensive links page, from a philosophy disciplinary perspective; updated Aug. 06

19 November 2006

(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography

blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint

Community and Activist Video - Welcome to the Videosphere!

especially about Chicago in the 1970s and 80s; the experimental and activist media communities have always been close here

Chicago's Video Underground

1973 article about portapak pioneers in Chicago video, also Dan Sandin, who invented an early image processor; it's about my generation and my people, so I love it, as I loved the Sandin Image Processor