S26U-112 Landscape Photographers in the U.S. and Their Work, 1839-c.1980
Stillwater | This course is completed
When photography was introduced to the U.S. in late 1839, one of the very first things photographed was the great natural wonder of the time: Niagara Falls. Thus began landscape photography, the attempt, in many places, for many reasons, with many different gazes, to portray the land where we live. We will examine landscape photography in the East, and then in the West, studying both the photos and the photographers who captured them.
Dr. James Showalter
Dr. James Showalter was raised in New York, Ohio, and Illinois. He holds a BA from Maryville College in Tenn., an MA from Northern Arizona University, and a PhD from OSU. He was the first curator and restorationist for the Oklahoma Historical Society of Old Central, the oldest building on the OSU campus. He taught 30 years at Langston University and one year at Southwestern University in Weatherford. He is a photographer, hiker, and carpenter and loves the West and his 1920 bungalow, which he’s renovating. He has taught about 20 or more classes for Osher.