Photography (Part One)

0:00 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
0:19 Intro, Amra brooks
1:43 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
1:56 Jared Green reading from Nadar, “Balzac and the Daguerreotype,” from When I was a Photographer"
5:32 Chris Ives reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Life in Boston”
7:20 Scott Cohen, reading from Umberto Eco, “A Photograph”
16:20 Vintage Polaroid Swinger Ad
17:19 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
17:29 Adam Lampton on Photography, Memory, and Moving
24:02 Vintage Polaroid Sonar Ad (with Liv Ullmann)
24:38 Joanna McNaney Stein, “Clean Slate” and in conversation with Jared Green
38:15 Excerpt, The Ed Sullivan Show/Kodak Commercial:
"All America is Cameraland", 1961
38:36 Sutopa Dasgupta, reading Susan Sontag, from “On Photography"
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Thanks to: Joanna McNaney Stein for sharing her work and thoughts (recorded via Skype in November 2018), Scott Cohen, Chris Ives, and Sutopa Dasgupta for their readings, Adam Lampton for his spoken essay, Jessica Williams and Madison Parenteau for their expert audio engineering.
Music:
Theme song: "Ecstasy in Umbra," Hitek Mesh@t/Tubifex https://soundcloud.com/user-736000448/ecstacy-in-umbra
"Stickle," by Blue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0 https://www.sessions.blue
"Blind Love Dub," (ft. Kara Square (mindmapthat)) by Jervis. CC By 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/VJMemes/55416
"Titter Snowbird," by Bue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/BlueDotSessions/Resolute/TitterSnowbird
https://www.sessions.blue
"Swollen Cloud," by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/PodingtonBear/Ambient/SwollenCloud
"Future History," by Jared Green
"Blue," by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/PodingtonBear/HomageFromage/Blue1246