BGuthrie Photos: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011D Fall Exhibit: Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam

DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2011D Fall Exhibit: Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam:

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Description of Pictures: Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam
September 3 through December 14, 2011
This major retrospective examines the work of Louise Rosskam (1910-2003), an elusive pioneer of the golden age of American documentary photography. It highlights her poignant photographs of Southwest Washington, DC, neighborhoods before their destruction for urban renewal as well as her compelling images of Puerto Rico, as it developed from an impoverished US possession to an industrialized commonwealth whose political status remains a contested issue. Guest curated by James Madison University Professor Laura Katzman and Library of Congress Curator Beverly W. Brannan.
The exhibition and book are supported by grants from Michael D. Abrams (AU, JD Law ’85), Daniel and Jane Solomon of the Woodbury Fund, the Judith Rothschild Foundation, and James Madison University. The book is published by the American University Museum in association with Penn State University Press and is available for purchase at the Katzen Museum Store.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. KATROS_110904_033.JPG: Visitor to one of the patients in the Women's Ward of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium near Rio Piedros, Puerto Rico, February 1946
2. KATROS_110904_039.JPG: Making dolls in the Manual Industries Division of the Puerto Rico Industrial Company, Near Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, May 1947
3. KATROS_110904_047.JPG: Where Am I Going? What am I going to be when I grow up? I dont know. Guess I'll land in the city like my big brother. Sure I'd like to learn things. Trouble is, not every crop we pick comes with a school for kids on the move.
4. KATROS_110904_051.JPG: Twin-lens reflex Rolleiflex camera, with a Zeiss Tessar 3.5/7.5 lens, ca. early 1940s. The highly popular and widely imitated Rolleiflex was a medium-format, twin-lens reflex roll film camera introduced in 1929 by German manufacturers. Its notable features were its exceptional design, compact size, superior optics, reliable mechanics, and bright viewfinders. It made a 2-1/4 x 2-1/4 inch negative that proved ideal for portraits as opposed to action shots. Rosskam loved the "Rollei," which she called a great learning camera. She learned how to frame subjects while seeing the image in reverse on the ground glass. She also learned how to avoid what she called "the belly view," resulting from the waist-level position of the camera, which can produce unwanted drama and distortion. Rosskam stood on tables and chairs to correct this and to create a simple directness and sustained intimacy if not slight reverence for her subjects. Exploiting the square format of the camera, Rosskam captured contemplative yet decisive moments within her carefully framed and artfully balanced compositions.
5. KATROS_110904_076.JPG: Women sewing in her home. The hillside on which her house is built falls so steeply that the house appears to be hanging in mid-air; in the background an equally steep hill on which tobacco is growing, Near Comerio, Puerto Rico, October 1945.
6. KATROS_110904_085.JPG: James Madison University Professor Laura Katzman
7. KATROS_110904_109.JPG: Straw Hats being manufactured in the Cabrer Hat Factory, Ponce, Puerto Rico, February 1947.
8. KATROS_110904_113.JPG: Waste paper, to be used in paper manufacture, stacked outside of the Pulp and Paper Plant of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, May 1947.
9. KATROS_110904_116.JPG: At the airport. Agricultural workers in an airplane ready to leave for the United States where they are going to work, Salinas, Puerto Rico, July 1948.
10. KATROS_110904_120.JPG: (Children on a slide; school for seasonal and migrant workers, New Jersey), 1968.
11. KATROS_110904_136.JPG: Watching Mock Wedding Parade, N Street, SW, Washington DC, 1942
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