Newman’s US Photography Takes a Trip Back in Time to Study the History of Photos

The classes spent most of the day learning from photographer Bruce Schultz at the Ogden. After exploring the photography exhibition A Place and Time, featuring photographs from 1864 to 1945, the students held examples of early photographs such as tintypes, ambrotypes, and daguerreotypes – while Schultz spoke of the complex but beautiful history of photography. The field trip came to a close after making cyanotype photograms and sitting for two tintypes as a record of their time spent at the Ogden. For students accustomed to digital photography, this valuable exposure to historical photographic methods will give them an appreciation of the pains photographers took to document their worlds and create art.