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Pbs: American Experience: Ansel Adams
This companion to the documentary film "Ansel Adams," part of the PBS series "The American Experience," looks at Adams's impact on Americans' perception of the West and on his use of photography in conservation efforts.
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Pbs Online News Hour: Half Past Autumn
Transcript of an interview with Gordon Parks in which he discusses his life, career, and works in a variety of art forms.
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Khan Academy: Art History: Neue Sachlichkeit: Umbo, the Roving Reporter
This video discusses Umbo (Otto Umbehr), The Roving Reporter, photomontage (rephotographed), 1926 Speakers: Dr. Juliana Kreinik, Dr. Steven Zucker, Dr. Beth Harris. [8:02]
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Smarthistory.com: Diane Arbus, Boy With a Toy Hand Grenade
A narrated analysis of Diane Arbus's photograph, Boy with a Toy Grenade, 1962, gelatin silver print, 15-1/2 x 15-1/16 inches or 39.4 x 38.3 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art). The speakers on the video are Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Shana...
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Reading Through History: History Brief: Dorothea Lange
This video provides a brief biography of Dorothea Lange and her contributions to history and the world of photography. Lange took some of the most memorable images of both the Great Depression in the 1930s and the internment of Japanese...
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Pbs Learning Media: Art + Activism With Sanaz Mazinani: Kqed Art School
Sanaz Mazinani is an artist with a background in political activism who uses art to inspire dialogue about perceptions of cultural identity. In the latest episode of Art School, she describes her current art practice. [5:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: Five Steps to Make Your Own Political Art: Kqed Art School
This video details a formula for making political art in five easy steps by offering examples of successful projects from high profile artists Banksy, Corita Kent, Emory Douglas, Ai Wei Wei, Shepard Fairey and Barbara Kruger. [3 min, 23...
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Khan Academy: Anouk Kruithof: Subconscious Travelling (Video)
Travel photographs, image circulation and obsolescence were on Anouk Kruithof's mind when she made "Subconscious Travelling." Hear Kruithof discuss the ideas behind this photographic installation, which began with her discovery of an...
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Khan Academy: Ilit Azoulay: Shifting Degrees of Certainty
Ilit Azoulay sought out traces of the past in various German cities for Shifting Degrees of Certainty. Hear her explain the genesis and structure of this project and how it started with a lot of unknowns, as well as careful observation...
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Khan Academy: David Horvitz | Mood Disorder
David Horvitz describes 'Mood Disorder,' an artist book generated out of his experiment to see how a single image propagates across the Internet. The project began when he uploaded an image of himself holding his head in his hands to the...
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Khan Academy: Vik Muniz | Equivalents (The Museum of Modern Art)
When you look at a picture with a certain degree of ambiguity, your perception heightens it, explains artist Vik Muniz in this short film [3:29] about the inspiration behind his 'Equivalents' series.
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Khan Academy: Marvin Heiferman | Seeing Through Photographs
The power of photography is more complicated than people admit to,' explains author and scholar Marvin Heiferman in a conversation with curator Sarah Meister about the ubiquity and consequentiality of photographic images. [3:59]
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Khan Academy: Lucas Blalock: Strawberries: Fresh Forever and Forever Fresh
Working with both analogue and digital technologies, Lucas Blalock often begins his images with a camera and finishes them on a computer. In this conversation with curator Roxana Marcoci, Blalock takes us through his process of making...
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Khan Academy: Katy Grannan | Boulevard
Photographer Katy Grannan's 'Boulevard' marked the beginning of a lengthy series of street portraits. Curator Sarah Meister talks with Grannan about these spontaneous collaborations between the photographer and strangers met on the...
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Khan Academy: Hank Willis Thomas | Unbranded
Ads, both vintage and contemporary, are a source of fascination for artist Hank Willis Thomas. In his series UNBRANDED, Thomas appropriates ads targeting black consumers and strips them down to reveal their stereotypes and assumptions....
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Khan Academy: Seeing Through Photographs (Video)
This video [1:17] is an introduction to a free online course, "Seeing Through Photographs," curator Sarah Meister speaks with artists and scholars to reveal the many different factors that inform the making of a photograph.
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Khan Academy: Nicholas Nixon | the Brown Sisters
Photographer Nicholas Nixon speaks with curator Sarah Meister about 'The Brown Sisters,' an ongoing series of annual portraits of his wife, Bebe, and her three sisters, Mimi, Laurie, and Heather, and his recent foray into digital work.
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Khan Academy: Art and Society: Modern Art & Ideas
Many artists create work in response to the social, cultural, and political issues of their time. See how Dorothea Lange, Martha Rosler, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres responded to the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, and the AIDS crisis....
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Khan Academy: Fenton, Landscape With Clouds
In this video [2:45] Met curator Malcolm Daniel on humility in Roger Fenton's [Landscape with Cloud], probably 1856.
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Khan Academy: Rochford's Girls I Have Known
In this video [3:22] Met curator Doug Eklund on teenage irreverence in Dan Rochford's "Girls I Have Known, compiled by Daniel Rochford when he was sixteen. This eccentric scrapbook-filled with handwritten commentary, folded notes passed...
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Khan Academy: Evans, Subway Passengers, New York City
In this video [2:42] Met curator Jeff Rosenheim on the art of seeing in Walker Evans's [Subway Passengers, New York City], 1938.
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Khan Academy: Burke and Norfolk: Photographs From the War in Afghanistan
A video [17:12] of photographer Simon Norfolk discussing his series of photographs in Afghanistan in response to the works of John Burke over a hundred years earlier.
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Khan Academy: Conflict, Time, and Photography
A video [3:30] broadcaster and historian Dan Snow introducing a Tate Modern photography exhibition that explores the way photographs capture the lasting effects of conflicts, both in the moments after acts of violence are committed and...
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Khan Academy: How I Got My Job and Where I'm Going
Trevr talks about the importance of networking and building relationships in order to obtain new job opportunities and grow his career in the film industry. [8:51]