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African American activists have long recognized the potential power of visual imagery to advance their quest for self-determination. Faculty member Leigh Raiford, in a new book, explores the role of photography in the black freedom struggle — from the heyday of the white lynch mob to the Civil Rights movement and the Black Power era.
Tag: photography
Size matters: Images viewed on small screens may be distorted, study finds
June 15, 2012:
Vision scientists at UC Berkeley have found that pictures viewed on the small screens of mobile devices often appear distorted compared to the same image viewed from a computer or TV monitor. The different viewing distances for the devices leads to this perceptual distortion. The researchers propose the use of longer focal lengths — 100mm — to create content that is viewed on small screens, and shorter focal lengths — 50 mm — for images used on larger devices, such as a television.
J School student’s SRO project garners 2001 Lange Fellowship
March 3, 2011:
Journalism grad student Vanessa Carr spent four months documenting the daily life of “Tree,” a 49-year old woman living in San Francisco’s Mission Hotel. Her project attracted the attention of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship judges and garnered Carr the 2011 award.
Jim Crow signs as symbols of subjugation, trophies of triumph
February 15, 2011:
In the mid 1960s, landmark laws brought an official end to the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow. Professor Elizabeth Abel explores the “visual politics” of a system that shaped experience and perception throughout the American South (and beyond) for nearly a century — in a book praised by literary critic Henry Louis Gates as giving “new focus to our national dialogue on race.”
‘Capturing the campus’
December 17, 2010:
Call it a visual form of academic introspection. This semester, a new Freshman Seminar, “Photographing History in the Making,” used the campus itself as a source for, and subject of, scholarly inquiry.
Fab Four headline at North Gate
November 10, 2010:
“Mad Day Out,” an exhibit of 25 never-before-exhibited photographs of the Beatles taken at random London locations one day in July 1968
“Appalachian Portfolio, 1959-1963″ on exhibit at North Gate Hall
September 8, 2010:
“The Appalachian Portfolio, 1959-1963: Photographs by Andrew Stern,” a collection of black-and-white photos depicting life 50 years ago in Kentucky’s hardscrabble coal mining country, is on display through Oct. 15 at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. It is the collection’s first West Coast showing.
Coming attractions: A short list of the campus’s enticing fall events
August 30, 2010:
This semester’s rich range of cultural offerings includes a daylong cornucopia of free arts performances, as well as appearances by violin virtuoso Christian Tetzlaff, the much-loved Mark Morris Dance Group, director and outside-the-box thinker Peter Greenaway, and bestselling writer David Sheff.
2010 Dorothea Lange Fellowship winner looks at dueling identities
April 21, 2010:
Photojournalism student Steve Saldivar turned his camera on teenagers celebrating their quinceaneras to win the 2010 award that honors documentary photographer Lange. The grant will let him explore changes wrought by a new rail line through the center of his hometown, in East L.A.
In Townsend Center exhibit, architecture prof Jean-Paul Bourdier ‘explores the infinite potentials of photography’
April 13, 2010:
Photographer Jean-Paul Bourdier’s otherworldly, bold desert images underscore the connection between humans and the world we inhabit.
