photography
Changing the way we look at women?
A selection of current stock photos showing a (slightly) wider-than-usual array of women’s roles, attitudes, professions.
TypingLot
TypingLot is an urban type collection. Cropped and stacked on an instagram account the typology is fed to the website. Started a year ago collection presents more than 700 types and still going on.
Documentary Photography Today
This symposium will reflect on how and why we use the term “documentary” to
describe photography today. In what ways are artists, scholars, and curators thinking
about documentary photography? How are photographers dealing with the
evidentiary function of their pictures while notions of authenticity and truth are
broadly challenged by political conflicts and new media? How do those pictures shape
our understanding of contemporary human rights, and their violations, across the
globe? Might we also speak of documentary photography as a style unlinked to the
medium’s social functions? Participants will include photographer Nina Berman, Mary
Panzer (NYU), and Sharon Sliwinski (University of Western Ontario), with respondent
Diane Neumaier (Rutgers).
Friday, December 7, 2012
10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Alexander Library
Teleconference Lecture Hall
169 College Avenue
The Beat by Social Media Department at Rutgers
The Beat uses Instagram pictures users added to their map, and combine them with the corresponding Google StreetView location to help explore topics in a new way. Try it!
This is a project of the Social Media Information Lab, at the School of Communications and Information at Rutgers University.
Feel free to explore your own beat by putting a new topic in the search box.
http://sm.rutgers.edu/thebeat/