Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942; Women photographers--Biography
This thesis is an examination of the transformation Tina Modotti's photography underwent because of the "Idols Behind Altars" project which she completed on an expedition with Edward Weston in 1926. The thesis begins with an introduction...
Photography--Psychological aspects; Mourning customs in art; Mourning customs in literature; Phenomenology and art
The creation of liminal spaces has been used for centuries cross-culturally to create sacred or taboo meanings in rituals, people, places, or objects. Liminality is constructed by the overlapping of cultural categories and "ruptures" an...
Photograph first published in the New York evening newspaper PM Daily, 7 September, 1944; "The freelance newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as 'Weegee', was notorious in New York in the 1930s for being the first to arrive at...
Aluminum fiber metal laminates (AFMLs) are a promising new type of fiber metal laminate that consists of aluminum foils interleaved with layers of a graphite fiber-polymer matrix composite (PMC) material. AFMLs combine the attractive features of...
Feminism in art; Art, Mexican; Women in art; Art and society--Mexico
This dissertation outlines a theoretical model for contextualizing contemporary
women's art practice in Mexico within the profound socioeconomic and political events
that have taken place since 1968, characterized by the steady breakdown and...
One of six suites of nine photographs. "The Bechers' photographs of industrial structures, which they began in 1959, belong to the genres of documentary photography, sculpture, and industrial archaeology simultaneously, as well as having...
Photograph of exhibition installation, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London, September-October 1953; "In this early Independent Group exhibition photographs of varying sizes were attached to the gallery walls. Others were suspended by...
The Ghost Signs of Louisville collection emerged from a partnership between the University of Louisville Libraries and Fine Arts department. Students in a fall 2011 Documentary Photography class and Libraries employees documented these fading...
A woman, possibly Mrs. Helen Fischer (wife of photographer Walter Fischer of Fischer Photography), and a dog are rescued by three men with a boat in Louisville, Kentucky during the 1937 Flood of the Ohio River. A service station with Gulf sign is...
Photography display in a store window. Signs read Kresge's Photos are in every typical home!, Relaxation Recreation on Vacation, Have your picture taken today!, TruFotos 4 for 15 , Cooperating in the War Program, and Old Pictures Rebuilt and...
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); Education; African Americans--Education (Higher); Portrait photographs; College presidents; African Americans
Back of the photograph reads "Dr. P---ce President." Probably Dr. Charles Lee Purce, president of State University from 1894-1905. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological...
Photogravures; Prints; Photographs; Cityscape photographs; Cities & towns; Cityscapes; City & town life; Roads; Streets; Winter; Snow; Carriages & coaches; Vehicles; Horses; Animals; Architecture; Buildings; Gates; Trees
"In his own art […] Stieglitz had moved quite sharply away from the pictorialism of his early work toward ever-more 'straight' photography - that is, toward photographs that look like photographs, free of lens or darkroom manipulations...
A collage of a woman being photographed; a small triangular photograph in the upper left corner of the same woman in the photography studio reception room (see ULPA 1977.01.178); and a small rectangular photograph in the bottom right corner of the...
Louisville Textiles, aerial view, with sign on roof. Houses in neat rows surround the plant. White lines mark the newspaper's desired cropping of the image for publication. On bottom right corner: "Aero-Graphic Corp. Louisville." On back...
Vehicles; Cruisers (Warships); United States. Navy
Model of U.S.S. Louisville sits on display on a rustic cart in front of a Great Northern Railroad emblazoned emblem, 1930. A man in nautical uniform points toward the model ship and two men in white hats and a woman with a cloche and a fur collar...
Albert Neurath home at 1556 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Dutch Colonial stone-clapboard house. Two-story house with shutters on the windows. A gazebo is attached to the left of the house. Steps lead from the street to the front door. Stamp...
Interiors; Living rooms; Art objects; Furniture; Rugs; Wallpapers
The interior of Jean Thomas' "Wee House in the Wood" at 3201 Cogan Street in Ashland, Kentucky. This room, encased in floral wallpaper, is filled with framed photographs and artwork, mementos, and books in addition to furniture and rugs....
The bedroom of Jean Thomas' "Wee House in the Wood" at 3201 Cogan Street in Ashland, Kentucky is completely filled with framed photographs and clippings. Donald R. Anderson, a University of Louisville art professor and curator of...
This photograph of the one-room school next door to Thomas' 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky, was taken by Donald R. Anderson, a University of Louisville art professor and curator of photography who worked with Thomas to secure the...
