18 November 2006
Online Image Collections by Subject: Rotch Visual Collections: MIT Libraries
by jlesage
Exploring image collections on the Internet, compiled by MIT, an annotated links page
Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
by jlesage
one of the most important exhibitions of our time, also raising questions about the ethics of exhibiting violence in our media culture today
DONA SCHWARTZ | PHOTOGRAPHER
by jlesage
with a social eye, she looks at a kitchen changing with a blended family, being a soccer mom, and shooting with a hidden digital camera in a strip club at the customer-woman interactions there
Dave Harris and Colleagues
by jlesage
large collection of work, lectures, course materials in media studies, leisure studies, sociology
Observations on film art and “Film Art”
by jlesage
blog by senior film scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
16 November 2006
Sequence Analysis
by jlesage & 1 other
by a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence
lens culture: contemporary photography magazine
by jlesage & 4 others
Photographyy internationally: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, lyrical, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. Essays, interviews with photographers, reviews of exhibitions and photo books.
Philosophy and Contemporary Culture
by jlesage & 1 other
extensive links page for cultural studies, theory, web resources, major figures by a teacher
Revealing Pictures & Reflexive Frames 2004
by jlesage
visual anthropology open archive, photos with comments: "opportunity to examine photographic modes of communication across societies, cultures, and academic worlds"
Invisible Culture-An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture-University of Rochester
by jlesage & 1 other
problematizes the unquestioned alliance between culture and visibility
Geoff Stahl - Still 'Winning Space?': Updating Subcultural Theory
by jlesage
deals with the impact of computer mediated communication on subcultural theory; refutes role of "authenticity"; good overview of shifts in field
13 November 2006
Center for History and New Media
by jlesage & 1 other
extensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
by jlesage
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
Zone-Tour : Database of Urban Exploration
by jlesage & 2 others
look at ordinarily unseen places: technical galleries, attics, construction places, roofs, all those "No Entry" places that form a sort of parallel deserted town
cin-o-matic
by jlesage & 2 others
in an easily scannable, filterable, and sortable format, users are quickly able to see what movies may interest them
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
by jlesage
"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
11 November 2006
Владимир Гвоздев и gvozdariki
by jlesage & 1 other
check out witty animations from a Russian animator, simple, elegant
06 November 2006
Roadside Architecture
by jlesage
documenting roadside architecture in the US, under many whacky categories; this is a favorite theme of mine in photography
Digital Library in leisure studies
by jlesage
links to full text essays; important to consider how people choose to organize their time and attention, when they can
