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Motion Imagery of Ellis Island Revealed in Stereographs

June 5, 2019 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Emigrants detained at Ellis Island - Keystone-Mast CollectionStereographs were the latter day virtual reality, an inventive means to immerse the viewer into another place and time. Two photographs are exposed simultaneously but from slightly different perspectives. When the final print is viewed through a stereoscope a depth of field is introduced that brings the photograph more to life.

In 2018 I digitally re-imagined many dozens of American Civil War scenes using an animation process that essentially reveals that same depth of field but on more common 2D screens. In doing so, the need for specific viewing equipment is eliminated and the immersive nature of the stereoscope is maintained. [Read more…] about Motion Imagery of Ellis Island Revealed in Stereographs

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Documentary, Ellis Island, Photography, Technology

Copyright & Fair Use in Early America

March 6, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldIn the 21st century, we are all creators and users of content. We take original photos with our smartphones, generate blog posts, digital videos, and podcasts. Some of us write books and articles. And nearly everyone contributes content to social media.

Given all of the information and content we generate and use, it’s really important for us to understand the principles of copyright and fair use, principles that have an early American past. [Read more…] about Copyright & Fair Use in Early America

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Constitution, Copyright, Documentary, Early America, Early American History, Fair Use, Media, Podcasts, Publishing, United States

New Book On Adirondack Photographer J.S. Wooley

December 19, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

JS Wooley adirondack photographerA new book edited by Richard Timberlake and Philip Terrie, J.S. Wooley: Adirondack Photographer (Syracuse University Press, 2018) tells the story of Jesse Sumner Wooley, a gifted and prolific Adirondack photographer at the turn of the twentieth century.

In 1880, Jesse Sumner Wooley, an energetic and entrepreneurial thirteen-year-old farm boy from Saratoga County, took a job as an errand boy for a pair of town photographers. The summer job led to a career that would define Wooley’s life. From that early start, he went on to become a prominent businessman and inventive photographer in Upstate New York. [Read more…] about New Book On Adirondack Photographer J.S. Wooley

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, History Tagged With: Adirondacks, Book Notices, Books, Documentary, Photography

1970s Photos of New York Seascapes Exhibit, Reception at Jay Heritage

December 13, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Manhattan Seascape Jay Heritage Center has announced an exhibit by Robert Gambee, “Manhattan Seascapes,” at their 1907 Carriage House on Saturday, December 15 thru Sunday, December 16, from 2 to 5 pm.

A Champagne Reception, Book Signing and Prints Sale will take place from 2 to 5 pm on Saturday, December 15. The exhibit will also be open for viewing and print purchases on Sunday. Exhibit is free and open to the public. [Read more…] about 1970s Photos of New York Seascapes Exhibit, Reception at Jay Heritage

Filed Under: Events, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Documentary, East River, Hudson River, Jay Heritage Center, Manhattan, Maritime History, New York Harbor

New Documentary on New York Governor Mario Cuomo

October 21, 2016 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on “The Historians” podcast, Matt Ryan of WMHT public television discusses his documentary, “Mario Cuomo: Poetry and Prose,” that features interviews and archival video from the long-running statewide program “Inside Albany.”

You can listen to the podcast here. [Read more…] about New Documentary on New York Governor Mario Cuomo

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Documentary, Podcasts, Political History

Hudson Valley Ruins Photo Exhibit Opens at NYS Museum

August 24, 2016 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

NYTrapRockCorpThe New York State Museum has opened “Hudson Valley Ruins,” a photography and architecture exhibition.

On display through December 31, 2017, the exhibition features over 80 photographs by Robert Yasinsac and Thomas Rinaldi documenting forgotten historic sites and cultural treasures in the Hudson River Valley.

The exhibition is based on Yasinsac and Rinaldi’s 2006 book, Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape. In addition to great river estates, the book and exhibition profiles sites meaningful to everyday life in the Hudson Valley: churches, hotels, commercial and civic buildings, mills, and train stations. The exhibition explores many of these abandoned places and also revisits several sites that have changed in the past ten years since the book’s publication. [Read more…] about Hudson Valley Ruins Photo Exhibit Opens at NYS Museum

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Architecture, Documentary, Historic Preservation, Hudson River Valley, Photography

Corset Portraits of the Loves of Aaron Burr

November 12, 2015 by Kathleen Hulser 2 Comments

Madame+Jume_RGB.BillOrcuttArtist Camilla Huey has a close to the skin interpretation of founding father Aaron Burr. While we know about his schemes to gain and keep political power, Huey tempts us to think about Burr’s gender politics. Was the former Vice-President who shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel, a full-fledged Lothario, or might there be another story?

The film “The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Binding and Corsetry”  premiering at Symphony Space at 95th St. and Broadway in Manhattan on Saturday, November 14 at noon offers a much more complicated and nuanced view of the man and his significant female others.  As Thomas Paine wrote in that revolutionary era “If we take a survey of the countries and the ages… we will find the women adored and oppressed. Man who has never neglected an opportunity of exerting his power,  in paying homage to their beauty has always availed himself of their weakness… at once their tyrant and their slave.” [Read more…] about Corset Portraits of the Loves of Aaron Burr

Filed Under: Events, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Aaron Burr, Documentary, Fashion History, Gender History, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Material Culture, Political History, womens history

Harlem: Life in Pictures

November 2, 2015 by Kathleen Hulser 1 Comment

Malcolm X- Rally for Birmingham, 1963. by Larry Fink. All images courtesy of Ilon Art Gallery
Malcolm X- Rally for Birmingham, 1963. by Larry Fink. Images Courtesy of Ilon Art Gallery

“If new thought can enter the mind, even for a moment, then change has a chance,” writes JT Liss. His photographs search for those figures and visions that allow us to see new ways and think new thoughts.

Ilon Gallery’s show Harlem: Life in Pictures on view in a classic 1890s brownstone, demonstrates how historic images of figures that have become iconic can acquire new resonance when displayed along fresh takes on a neighborhood that has been a cradle of creativity for well over 100 years. [Read more…] about Harlem: Life in Pictures

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Art History, Black History, Documentary, Harlem, Jazz, Musical History, Photography

Erie Canalway Photo Contest Seeks Entries

August 17, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

2015_ErieCanalway-PhotoContestEntries are being accepted through August 28, 2015 for the 10th annual Erie Canalway Photo Contest. Winning photos will be featured in the 2016 Erie Canalway calendar, which is available free of charge in December.

Amateur and professional photographers are invited to submit images in four contest categories: On the Water, Along the Trail, Canal Communities, and Classic Canal. [Read more…] about Erie Canalway Photo Contest Seeks Entries

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Documentary, Erie Canalway Heritage Corridor, Photography

Historic House Demolition Spurs Film Project

August 4, 2015 by Tina Traster 3 Comments

IMG_9264(1)Blink and another house is bulldozed. Most don’t even notice, so I’d like to tell you the story of what happened in my backyard. Unfortunately, it does not have a happy ending.

In Rosalie Fellows Bailey’s Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses and Families in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York, the Lent House (built in 1752) is linked to Abraham de Ryck, one of the earliest settlers in New Amsterdam. The house was built by or for Abraham Lent, who served as Colonel of the First Regiment of Militia of Fort Orangetown during the American Revolution. [Read more…] about Historic House Demolition Spurs Film Project

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Architecture, Documentary, Film History, Historic Preservation, New Netherland, Orange County

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