Sunday, October 14, 2007

Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dances

Part of the Ohio University collections, here is streaming video of some of the dances by these pioneering dancers/choreographers.

http://www.library.ohiou.edu/archives/dance/movingimage/index.html

Sally Mann's wet collodion photographs

Check out the PBS Art:21 videos of Sally Mann at work

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/index.html

Antique Photographic Processes - how to videos

Learn how to make a daguerreotype
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?segid=378
Or just see what they look like new
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGpLju39fGY

Or a wet plate collodion negative?
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?segid=1726
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNeHs5M974g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyf8fQOdvDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WcEu-L1Wls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JocSuLBSk0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-VWxomz8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6RMgTXcEK8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JocSuLBSk0

Or an albumen photo with
Doug Munson at the Chicago Albumen Works, part of the wonderful Albumen site?
http://albumen.stanford.edu/video/munsonhome.html

Or maybe a photogravure?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNeHs5M974g

How about an ambrotype?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0JJLVTVYk

Or a tintype?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K_xQ0MDzlU