104 search results for “The Owsley Moment”
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S03 E05 – Ivan Albright – Fleeting Time, Thou Hast Left Me Old – 1945
Albright became famous when his painting Picture of Dorian Gray appeared as the titular picture in the 1945 Hollywood adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s book about a portrait that ages while its owner stays young.
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S03 E04 – Isabel Bishop – Snack Bar – 1959
Bishop stood out from her male cohorts who often portrayed the spectacles of the city—shoppers, performers, and unemployed people. Instead, Bishop focused on creating a snapshot of the urban American woman’s experience.
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S03 E03 – Alexander Wyant – Near Conway, North Wales – 1868
This painting was based on sketches Wyant made around the Conwy Castle in Wales on the western edge of Great Britain.
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S02 E47 – Brett Weston – Sand Hills – 1936
Weston learned about photography from his father, Edward Weston, and both artists were particularly adept at creating images of nature that are crisply detailed, sculptural, and abstract at the same time.
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S02 E46 – Edward Steichen – Mother & Child–Sunlight – 1906
Sometimes, Pictorialists deliberately blurred their images by using screens or even Vaseline over their camera lenses in order to strike a romantic and nostalgic tone.
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S02 E45 – Fritz Scholder – Blue Altar – 1983
This photograph is a cyanotype, which was widely used to make contact prints of plants and copies of architectural drawings known as blueprints.
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S02 E44 – Bonnie Schiffman – George Burns, 1989 – printed 1997
Schiffman has said that she tries to move past the fame and get to the heart of the person when she photographs celebrities.
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S02 E43 – Eva Rubinstein – Two Doorways, Sabbioneta – 1973
The absence of people and the lack of furnishings could make this space feel calm and open or cold and isolated.
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S02 E42 – Sheila Mae Pinkel – X-Ray: Two Trout – 1978/82
To create this image, Pinkel used a mammography machine normally used to detect breast cancer.
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S02 E41 – Charles Moore – Birmingham, Alabama (Police Dogs Attack Demonstrators) – shot 1963, printed 1997
Photographs such as this one are credited with inspiring the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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S02 E40 – Ralph Eugene Meatyard – Romance of Ambrose Bierce #3 – 1964
This may be Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s most famous photograph.
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S02 E39 – Charles Marville – Cathedral – 1875
This type of photograph suits architectural photography well, as the grainy texture of the paper augments the texture of stone buildings like Chartres.
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S02 E38 – Wende Lee – Engulfed in Liquid Light – 1990
This photograph was made with a process called Cibachrome: a type of photographic printing that is rarely used today because the materials are hard to find.
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S02 E37 – William Henry Jackson – Marshall Pass, West Side – about 1881
This photographer used a process that required him to haul around dangerous chemicals and heavy cameras.
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S02 E36 – Philippe Halsman – Marilyn Jumping – 1959
This photographer believed that photographs of people jumping revealed their true personality.
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S02 E35 – Roger Fenton – Colonel Wood, Major Stuart Wortley, Col. the Honorable F. Colborne – 1856
This photographer was known for being the first to document a war, yet he did not show the action of battle.
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S02 E34 – Eliot Elisofon – Black Woman with Child – 1960
The photographer did not document details of the culture this photograph captures, so it operates as a generalization about life in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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S02 E33 – John M. Divola – Zuma Number 21 – 1977
The photographer described his process of creating photography like this as one of “visceral involvement.”
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S02 E32 – Alvin Langdon Coburn – The Great Temple, Grand Canyon – 1911
The photographer’s eye for abstract patterns can be seen in this photograph of one of America’s greatest natural wonders.
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S02 E31 – Margaret Bourke-White – Portrait of Five Men – 1940
This portrait may seem somewhat ordinary, but taking photographs of regular people was an important part of the photographer’s work.
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Created by Ball State School of Art professor Dr. Lara Kuykendall, The Owsley Moment is a brief, informative program that describes one work in the David Owsley Museum of Art's collection every week. Each Moment takes the listener on a small adventure, often telling the history of the piece, recounting the life of the artist, or vividly detailing the characteristics of the work.
The Owsley Moments are written by Ball State art history students. They are produced in collaboration with the David Owsley Museum of Art and Indiana Public Radio and are voiced by Ball State students.