Project Description

In this project, we are a small archive creating a local history project for seventh grade students. We are scanning a collection of photos of local landmarks and putting them on the site Historypin, which integrates them with the modern view. The students will be able to see the locations on a map and "walk" down the street. They can see the overlayed old photos fade into the modern images (courtesy of Google Street View), giving them a clear idea of how the town has changed over time.

11/29/12

Elements of Photograph Description

Brian Stewart's paper suggests the use of "aboutness" or iconology in photograph description. This table is a mash-up of Shatford's and Panofsky's theories of photograph description and indexing (Stewart, 301) and puts "aboutness" in the context of the more traditional descriptive elements. 
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