Deriving me to distraction
A big small small face?
Category: Language
Related to human language
The effect of “lady photographer”, part 4 of 4
This is the last post in the series about the effect of lady photographer.
“Ober, Lady Photographer.”
Boston Post 1892-07-01, p. 6. Credit: Newspapers.com
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The effect of “lady photographer”, part 3 of 4
“He Didn’t Like the Photographs”
In addition to the ads and the positive press that we saw in the first two posts in this series, another place we see lady photographer is in anecdotes, like this one:
The Cairo Bulletin 1883-06-06, p.1. Credit: Newspapers.com
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Misunderstanding misunderstanding
Ever feel misunderstood?
The effect of “lady photographer”, part 2 of 4
“LADY PHOTOGRAPHER LOCATES HERE”
Bloomington Evening World 1915-11-23, p.1. Credit: Newspapers.com
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The effect of “lady photographer”, part 1 of 4
This is the first of a four-part series.
“XMAS PHOTOGRAPHS Made by LADY PHOTOGRAPHERS”
The Daily Oklahoman 1922-12-23, p. 36. Credit: Newspapers.com
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Bisarcipoltroncionacciosissimo
Or so you can pronounce it correctly, bisarcipôltrônciônacciôsíssimô.
Fish and carrots
What do fish and carrots have in common? Aside from potential ingredients for a tasty dish by my brother @jeffculy, I mean.
Lady photographers and woman balloonists
Background
To start off this new blog, I thought I’d bring together a few of my interests, including language, data visualization, and the social history of photography.
As part of our Early Women Artisan Photographers (EWAP) project (the podcast is Photographs, Pistols & Parasols), I periodically browse through eBay looking for photographs taken by women who ran their own photography businesses between 1840 (pretty much the beginning of commercial photography) to 1930 (the first big peak of women as photographers in the U.S.). The other day I came across a cabinet card (out of our price range, unfortunately) by a studio run by two women in Spokane, Washington. The card was unusual (for that studio) in that it was an advertising card for a balloonist who was going to be performing locally.