scholarly journals Era of exploration and new topographics : annotated bibliographies of two landmark exhibitions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Roger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
American West ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Landscape Photography ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Before And After ◽  
New Topographics ◽  
Western Landscape

In 1975, two landscape photography exhibitions were held concurrently in upstate New York; Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885, at Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery and New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, in Rochester (now The George Eastman International Museum of Photography and Film). Era of Exploration treated nineteenth-century landscapes of the American West while New Topographics addressed contemporary landscape practices. Though applying fundamentally different approaches to their subject matter, each exhibition proved to be extremely important to the understanding and development of not only landscape photography, but also the genre's place in photographic history. This thesis examines the essential literature relating to these two landmark exhibitions, through the construction of two extensive annotated bibliographies. Each bibliography comprises nine sections that present and evaluate significant materials, published both before and after the exhibition, relating to the exhibitions and their publications, the included photographers, and the exhibitions' influence as revealed in subsequent specialized studies and general histories of photography. The bibliographies' chronological listing allows readers to re-construct the exhibitions, and to trace the development of historical and curatorial interest in the exhibitions, the photographers, and American western landscape photography. The thesis describes the process of compiling and annotating this literature and offers reflections on how these two important exhibitions, while employing very different curatorial approaches, influenced the aesthetics, methodologies and concepts of landscape photography.

scholarly journals Era of exploration and new topographics : annotated bibliographies of two landmark exhibitions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Roger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
American West ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Landscape Photography ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Before And After ◽  
New Topographics ◽  
Western Landscape

In 1975, two landscape photography exhibitions were held concurrently in upstate New York; Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885, at Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery and New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, in Rochester (now The George Eastman International Museum of Photography and Film). Era of Exploration treated nineteenth-century landscapes of the American West while New Topographics addressed contemporary landscape practices. Though applying fundamentally different approaches to their subject matter, each exhibition proved to be extremely important to the understanding and development of not only landscape photography, but also the genre's place in photographic history. This thesis examines the essential literature relating to these two landmark exhibitions, through the construction of two extensive annotated bibliographies. Each bibliography comprises nine sections that present and evaluate significant materials, published both before and after the exhibition, relating to the exhibitions and their publications, the included photographers, and the exhibitions' influence as revealed in subsequent specialized studies and general histories of photography. The bibliographies' chronological listing allows readers to re-construct the exhibitions, and to trace the development of historical and curatorial interest in the exhibitions, the photographers, and American western landscape photography. The thesis describes the process of compiling and annotating this literature and offers reflections on how these two important exhibitions, while employing very different curatorial approaches, influenced the aesthetics, methodologies and concepts of landscape photography.

Evaluating local workforce development programs in Upstate New York, USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-366
Author(s):  
Carlos J. L. Balsas ◽  
Anthony Swingruber ◽  
Yen-Fu Lin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
New York State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Program Outcomes ◽  
Capital Region ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Employment Rates

Workforce development programs in the United States have increasingly focused on two critical approaches: Learning at work and experience as education. Workforce development programs are increasingly aimed at making territories more competitive by strengthening labor markets and helping to meet the needs of employers in significant sectors of the economy. Workforce development in Upstate New York is an important step forward in preventing the region from lagging behind other regions in the country. In this paper, we examine the role of the Capital Region Workforce Investment Board, a local workforce improvement board under the supervision of the New York State Workforce Investment Board. Specifically, we evaluate the impacts of the new Capital Region Workforce Investment Board’s Program on the federally funded Workforce Investment Act of 1998 Adult Program priorities. Before-and-after analysis comparing the program outcomes in two four year periods, 2006–2009 and 2010–2013 are presented. The results of the new plan are mixed across several key performance indicators. Evidence shows that the new focuses increased the average earnings of program participants in a situation where employment rates decreased slightly. Significant industries for 2012–2022 are also reviewed.

Changes in Perceptions of Ford and Carter following the First Presidential Debate

1977 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary R. Morrow
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Emotional Control ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Voting Age ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Presidential Debate

Perceptions of presidential candidates Ford and Carter were assessed both before and after their first presidential debate from a sample of 31 subjects of voting age in upstate New York. Significant changes in perceptions of the candidates' sociability, emotional control, aggressiveness and moral judgment were found as a result of the debate. Carter was seen as more like the “ideal president” prior to the debate. However no significant difference between the degree to which the perception of either candidate was associated with the perception of the “ideal president” was found following the debate.

Industrial Paternalism: Discourse and Practice in Nineteenth-Century French Mining and Metallurgy

1985 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Reid
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Social History ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
American South ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Industrial Labor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The American South

In recent years paternalism has become one of the most discussed concepts in social history. While historians of women invoke paternalism and patriarchy to help explain relations of male domination, Marxist historians have found paternalism useful in expanding their analyses of class consciousness. Eugene Genovese organized his interpretation of slavery in the American south around paternalism. For E. P. Thompson, the breakdown of the ideology and practice of rural paternalism underlay the development of “class struggle without class” in eighteenth-century England. Despite Genovese's warning that paternalism is an inappropriate concept for understanding industrial society, several recent studies have identified paternalism as an important factor in the history of industrial labor during the nineteenth century. Daniel Walkowitz and Tamara Haraven have analyzed paternalism in the textile industries of upstate New York and southern New Hampshire. Lawrence Schofer and David Crew have studied paternalism in nineteenth-century German heavy industry, and Patrick Joyce has recently argued for its centrality in the restructuring of class relations in the late Victorian textile industry.

Editing for Expansion: Railroad Photography, Native Peoples, and the American West, 1860–1880

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-313
Author(s):  
Alessandra Link
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
American West ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Landscape Photography ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Technological Developments

Abstract In the nineteenth century, both railroad expansion and photography influenced relations between the United States and Native peoples in powerful ways. Scholars have often dealt with these two technological developments separately, but photographs and railroads have a shared history. Throughout the mid-to-late nineteenth century railroad companies engaged with photographs and photographers to promote travel on their lines. This article evaluates the production and circulation of transcontinental railroad photographs, and it concludes that the so-called golden age of landscape photography was built on the suppression of peopled scenes in the West. Images of Indians and trains that reached broad audiences placed Indigenous peoples in opposition to the modern forces cast in steel and running on steam. Picturing an unpeopled West and anti-modern Indians brightened business prospects for those investing in the promise of U.S. expansion beyond the 100th meridian.

Becoming the “Black Swan” in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America:

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia J. Chybowski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Black Swan ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Cultural Boundaries

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield was first in a lineage of African American women vocalists to earn national and international acclaim. Born into slavery in Mississippi, she grew up in Philadelphia and launched her first North American concert tour from upstate New York in 1851. Hailed as the “Black Swan” by newspapermen involved in her debut, the soubriquet prefigured a complicated reception of her musical performances. As an African American musician with slavery in her past, she sang what many Americans understood to be “white” music (opera arias, sentimental parlor song, ballads of British Isles, and hymns) from the stages graced by touring European prima donnas on other nights, with ability to sing in a low vocal range that some heard as more typical of men than women. As reviewers and audiences combined fragments of her biography with first-hand experiences of her concerts, they struggled to make the “Black Swan” sobriquet meaningful and the transgressions she represented understandable. Greenfield's musical performances, along with audience expectations and the processes of patronage, management, and newspaper discourse complicated perceived cultural boundaries of race, gender, and class. The implications of E. T. Greenfield's story for antebellum cultural politics and for later generations of singers are profound.

New cartographics: Photography and the artistic mapping of the American West, 1969‐79

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Swensen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American West ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
The West ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Distinctive Group ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Topographics ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Mapping Techniques

This article examines the work of a diverse group of photographers who in the late 1960s and 1970s employed mapping techniques and devices as a means of artistic creation. Products of photography’s unprecedented growth, photographers John Pfahl, Michael Bishop, Kenneth Josephson and the participants of the Rephotographic Survey Project employed cartographic and topographic strategies as part of their exploration of the history of their medium and the American West. These artist-photographers, moreover, responded to the nineteenth-century surveys of the West as well as its relation to other, better-known contemporary movements like ‘New Topographics’. In all, this article provides the first exploration of this distinctive group of American photographers which may be collectively termed: ‘new cartographics’.

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