William H. Jackson, born Keesville, NY 1843-died New York City 1942
Medium:
photographs
Dimensions:
overall (bound): 21 1/2 x 15 7/8 in. (54.6 x 40.3 cm)
Type:
Photography-Photoprint
Date:
1873-1879
Topic:
Landscape\park\Yellowstone National Park
Landscape\Wyoming
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Library of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Bosworth uses a distinctive method to make her panoramic photographs. She begins by exposing two, three, or four eight-by-ten-inch negatives in sequence, and then makes a contact print by setting the negatives side by side on a single sheet of photographic paper. The unexposed border of the film where the negatives meet appears as a black line. Although Bosworth could easily trim this mark away, she chooses not to hide the seam between each frame, preferring the evidence of her technique to remain visible. At a time when digital manipulation is becoming the norm, it is refreshing to encounter images that consciously draw attention to the photographic process and the manner of an image's creation.Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth exhibition label
Smithsonian Institution-Peace Corps Environmental Program (SI-PCEP)
Peace Corps (U.S.)
Physical description:
Number of Images: 1 Color: Color ; Size: 8w x 13h ; Type of Image: Object ; Medium: Document
Type:
Object
Document
Report
Date:
c. 1970s
Topic:
Ecology
National parks and reserves
Standard number:
SIA2011-1169
Restrictions:
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Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Summary:
"Comoe National Park: an Investigation of the Ecology of the Northwest Region and Recommendations for its Future Development" Project Report written by a Peace Corps volunteer. In 1970 the Smithsonian contracted with the Peace Corps to assist in establishing an international environmental program, the Smithsonian Institution-Peace Corps Environmental Program (SI-PCEP) to develop conservation, biological, and ecological projects in natural resource fields. Recruits were placed through the Office of Environmental Sciences. President Kennedy had set up the Young American Peace Corps in 1961