Discover Hidden Gems - the library's welcome to new and returning students - highlights some of the less-visible (or more-overlooked) materials, features and uses of the library. In addition - while supplies last - the library is supplying candy at campus venues, each piece spotlighting one of these resources. New students were invited to submit examples of their own conception of hidden gems, which are displayed throughout the library. Best wishes on the forthcoming school year! Welcome (back)!
Results tagged “Photographs” from Iwasaki Library Blog
Well, my library colleagues have requested that I do a post about websites that I think are pretty freakin' sweet. Why you ask? Well, I'm not sure if you know this about the library staff, but we're all a bunch of nerds. Here's a short list of websites that I think are neato:
Sorted Books: Artist Nina Katchadourian's Sorted Books project involves arranging books on shelves to create sentences, poems, or just funny phrases.
Big Picture: Boston.com's Big Picture is just that, a bunch of high-resolution, beautiful photographs, emphasizing photojournalism. As the site says: "News stories in photographs." Updated daily.
Shorpy: The 100 year-old photo blog. Every picture reveals a little something about life in American in them olden' days. Oh yeah, and every single picture is amazing.
Vintagraph: I think this site is brought to you by the same people as Shorpy, but this time the focus is on historic American posters.
ArtStor: Available through Emerson's library databases. You can check out and search all sorts of pictures.
Now why would you need any of this? Like I said before, it's fun! Who doesn't like pretty pictures? But also, things like posters from WWI or advertisements from the 50s can say a lot about the visual communication and values from those times.
Photographs by Lauren Shaw, Associate Professor of Visual & Media Arts, are on display in the Library for the Fall 2007 semester.
Artist's Statement
It is with great pleasure that I present a small selection of my work that spans thirty-three years. To have the opportunity to combine one's vocation with one's avocation has been a gift while teaching at Emerson College. Looking back at my work over a period of time gives clarity and understanding of my photographic evolution. Each body of work has always led me to the next project, which has been guided by my intuition and curiosity. The work is a response to the immediate world around me. I think of my work as autobiographical because of the way it resonates with my life. The power of the photograph to convey the evocative as well as the cerebral has provided me the means to express myself both as an individual and an artist.
September, 2007
My thanks to Bob Fleming and Emily Garner who made possible this exhibition as well as Maine Women: Living on the Land in the Huret and Spector Gallery. September 2007
Lauren Shaw
Storied landscapes: 1989-1994
In 1989 while using the Polaroid 20x24 camera in the studio, I was able to place clear acetates of my writing inside the back of the camera. Shortly thereafter, while traveling in the Southwest with my medium format camera, I began to see language everywhere not only in the written petroglyphs left by the Anaszi but in the layers of geology revealed in the landscape. As I looked through the viewfinder, I saw a new field in which to record my own stories.
Maps: 1977-1985
After working with the Diana camera for four years, I felt the need to get close and sharp again. I began by photographing myself and then extended to my family and friends. I wanted to be anonymous and personal simultaneously by getting closer than the eye can focus. This body of work began my interest in “mapping,” representing on a flat surface the whole or part of an area. These close-ups are suggestive of a map. The lines and marks on their faces are references to who they are.
Dianas: 1973-1977
By using a plastic camera, which was virtually unknown in 1973, I was able to free myself from the conventions of a sharp and precise lens. This enabled me to be more spontaneous in my shooting and more visceral with my content. I worked with the Diana camera for several years until I felt the need to get close and sharp again.