scholarly journals Robert C. Kraut's Japan : cataloguing and contextualizing post World War Two photographic albums of Japan and the South Pacific

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Material Orientation ◽  
Donation Process ◽  
Vernacular Photography ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Army Air Force

This applied thesis examines three albums created by US Army Air Force personnel Robert C. Kraut from 1945-46. The albums were donated by Toronto based artist Max Dean to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and serve as a case study for the process of cataloguing and contextualizing albums for future researchers and museum staff. This paper includes a literature survey examining care and handling, social and historical evolutions, and cataloguing practices related to both photographic albums and scrapbooks. An historical analysis of the photographic album as a medium, vernacular photography and the donation process of the albums into the AGO's collection follows. A detailed analysis of the narrative, material orientation, annotation, layout and materiality qualities for each album is included. A cataloguing methodology that both accounts for the albums’ unique layouts and holds to the established conventions for cataloguing albums at the AGO is discussed and described in detail.

scholarly journals Robert C. Kraut's Japan : cataloguing and contextualizing post World War Two photographic albums of Japan and the South Pacific

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Material Orientation ◽  
Donation Process ◽  
Vernacular Photography ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Army Air Force

This applied thesis examines three albums created by US Army Air Force personnel Robert C. Kraut from 1945-46. The albums were donated by Toronto based artist Max Dean to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and serve as a case study for the process of cataloguing and contextualizing albums for future researchers and museum staff. This paper includes a literature survey examining care and handling, social and historical evolutions, and cataloguing practices related to both photographic albums and scrapbooks. An historical analysis of the photographic album as a medium, vernacular photography and the donation process of the albums into the AGO's collection follows. A detailed analysis of the narrative, material orientation, annotation, layout and materiality qualities for each album is included. A cataloguing methodology that both accounts for the albums’ unique layouts and holds to the established conventions for cataloguing albums at the AGO is discussed and described in detail.

Accident Conscious: Accounting for Flying Accidents in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War

2019 ◽  
pp. 096834451983730
Author(s):  
Peter Hobbins ◽  
Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Operational Effectiveness ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Army Air Force ◽  
Royal Australian Air Force ◽  
Second World

During the Second World War the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) systematically categorized every operational and non-operational flying accident. Despite a broader service focus on ‘pilot error’, our comprehensive database of 601 RAAF Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk accident reports suggests that non-human factors were perceived as more determinative than human failings. Incorporating wartime Royal Air Force and US Army Air Force analyses, this article compares RAAF interpretations of accident statistics with our data and a detailed exploration of formal inquiries into ten fatal Kittyhawk crashes. Accounting for air force accidents negotiated a dynamic balance between heuristic integrity, operational effectiveness, and political prudence.

scholarly journals Photographic Censorship In The First World War : A Comparison Between The Realistic Travels Stereograph Set And British Personal Photograph Albums From The Collection Of The Art Gallery Of Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Leverty
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Photograph Albums ◽  
Western Front ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
First World

This thesis compared a group of personal photograph albums compiled by British soldiers during the First World War to a set of stereographs produced during the war and published after by the British company Realistic Travels, both from the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The development of British censorship restrictions during the First World War had a profound effect on who, what, where and how individuals were able to photograph the conflict. This thesis examines how these restrictions affected stereograph photographers and soldiers as they documented the war in order to ascertain how these effects shaped the construction of each type of photographic object. By comparing and analyzing both bodies of work as they were produced in three theatres of war -- the Western Front, Gallipoli and within Britain -- we see that objects created for public and private audiences are more similar than they initially appear.

scholarly journals Héliogravures : the unpublished photogravure process of Édouard Baldus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer I Yeates
Keyword(s):  
Physical Nature ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
William Henry Fox Talbot ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Working Method

This thesis project uses an incomplete set of twenty six héliogravure prints by Édouard Baldus (1813-1889) from the publication "Les Principaux Monument de la France, reproduit en héliogravure par E. Baldus 1869-70", which are held at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The prints are utilized as a primary means of analysis in an attempt to understand Baldus' working method, as he never published his photogravure process, and about which little is known. The thesis is composed of five sections: 1) a discussion of Baldus' place in photographic history; 2) an examination of the compete set of forty five héliogravures in the publication based on the copy at the Canadian Centre for Architecture; 3) a case study looking at the relationship between Baldus' albumen prints and his héliogravures; 4) a second case study analyzing and comparing the physical nature of the photogravure works of William Henry Fox Talbot, Charles Nègre, Peter Henry Emerson and Alfred Steiglitz; with the intension of, 5) deciphering the method Baldus could have used in printing his héliogravures.

scholarly journals Héliogravures : the unpublished photogravure process of Édouard Baldus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer I Yeates
Keyword(s):  
Physical Nature ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
William Henry Fox Talbot ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Working Method

This thesis project uses an incomplete set of twenty six héliogravure prints by Édouard Baldus (1813-1889) from the publication "Les Principaux Monument de la France, reproduit en héliogravure par E. Baldus 1869-70", which are held at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The prints are utilized as a primary means of analysis in an attempt to understand Baldus' working method, as he never published his photogravure process, and about which little is known. The thesis is composed of five sections: 1) a discussion of Baldus' place in photographic history; 2) an examination of the compete set of forty five héliogravures in the publication based on the copy at the Canadian Centre for Architecture; 3) a case study looking at the relationship between Baldus' albumen prints and his héliogravures; 4) a second case study analyzing and comparing the physical nature of the photogravure works of William Henry Fox Talbot, Charles Nègre, Peter Henry Emerson and Alfred Steiglitz; with the intension of, 5) deciphering the method Baldus could have used in printing his héliogravures.

scholarly journals Interpreting Bert Hardy's photographic collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanchen Yu
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
British Society ◽  
Full Description ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
The Third ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Relationship

This subject of this thesis is a collection of Bert Hardy photographs donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 2007. Hardy (1913-1995), worked as a photojournalist for Picture Post from 1940 - 1957 during which time he covered many aspects of British life after World War II. Hardy’s contribution to British visual culture is traced in three chapters beginning with a literature survey that covers the context of his work in post-war British society. The second chapter gives a full description of the collection and further analyzes the style of Hardy’s photographs. The third chapter examines the history Picture Post and the context in which its editors worked. Looking at the the relationship between photographers and editors in the picture press, it examines how Stefan Lorant and Tom Hopkinson edited and captioned Bert Hardy’s photographs for use in the Picture Post.

scholarly journals Arrangement, description and presentation of the Fairlie Family collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario: a case study in collections management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura C. Gentili
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Information ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Object Level

This thesis presents the results of an applied project in Collections Management, comprising the intellectual arrangement of the Fairlie Family fonds at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and the creation of a finding aid to facilitate future access and research. This project analyzes twelve Canadian family albums from the AGO’s collection of photography that were compiled by the Fairlie family between the years of 1880 and 1950. This project is comprised of three major parts: (1) an analytical paper, (2) extensive inventories and object-level cataloguing records, and (3) the creation of a finding aid for the family documents and related ephemera. The first part of this thesis consists of an analytical paper discussing the historical context of the albums and what they can tell us about the Fairlie family and the time and place in which they were created. The albums document the family’s exploits in photography, from mining in northern Ontario, various travel destinations, summer camping in Temagami, and life in upper-middle-class Toronto during the first half of the twentieth century. The practical component of this project includes genealogical research; detailed inventories for each of the twelve albums; the intellectual arrangement, rehousing, and creation of a finding aid for the textual records and related ephemera; and updated cataloguing records linking the albums with the Fairlie Family fonds in The Museum System database (TMS) so that both the photographic collection and contextual information are more accessible.

scholarly journals Unlocking the past: an analysis of sixteen Russian First World War Albums from the photography collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, including enhanced cataloguing records.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Belilovskaia
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
The Past ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Item Level ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
First World

This thesis includes theoretical and practical components. The theoretical part examines sixteen Russian photographic albums produced during the First World War. The albums form a part of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s (AGO) photography collection related to the First World War. In Part I, a literature survey, methodology section and historical chapter provide essential contextual and historical information about the objects. Part II consists of four essays that analyze the albums, divided into four groups. Based on the author’s translation of the available captions and her interpretation of the visual information found in the albums, the essays demonstrate how the critical events of Russian history during the period from 1910 to the 1920s are reflected through the photographs in these personal albums. The practical part of the thesis (Part III) provides a sampling of cataloguing records on an item level for the two Hospital Train albums in Appendix A and updated cataloguing records for all sixteen albums in Appendix B.

scholarly journals Interpreting Bert Hardy's photographic collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanchen Yu
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
British Society ◽  
Full Description ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
The Third ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Relationship

This subject of this thesis is a collection of Bert Hardy photographs donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 2007. Hardy (1913-1995), worked as a photojournalist for Picture Post from 1940 - 1957 during which time he covered many aspects of British life after World War II. Hardy’s contribution to British visual culture is traced in three chapters beginning with a literature survey that covers the context of his work in post-war British society. The second chapter gives a full description of the collection and further analyzes the style of Hardy’s photographs. The third chapter examines the history Picture Post and the context in which its editors worked. Looking at the the relationship between photographers and editors in the picture press, it examines how Stefan Lorant and Tom Hopkinson edited and captioned Bert Hardy’s photographs for use in the Picture Post.

scholarly journals Photographic Censorship In The First World War : A Comparison Between The Realistic Travels Stereograph Set And British Personal Photograph Albums From The Collection Of The Art Gallery Of Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Leverty
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Photograph Albums ◽  
Western Front ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
First World

This thesis compared a group of personal photograph albums compiled by British soldiers during the First World War to a set of stereographs produced during the war and published after by the British company Realistic Travels, both from the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The development of British censorship restrictions during the First World War had a profound effect on who, what, where and how individuals were able to photograph the conflict. This thesis examines how these restrictions affected stereograph photographers and soldiers as they documented the war in order to ascertain how these effects shaped the construction of each type of photographic object. By comparing and analyzing both bodies of work as they were produced in three theatres of war -- the Western Front, Gallipoli and within Britain -- we see that objects created for public and private audiences are more similar than they initially appear.

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