https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rpIGgt_sGw
Worked with Producer Melissa Bell to conceptualize a low-lift video providing an engaging entry point into The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910 exhibition, highlighting the unique variety of sitters and subject matter offered by tintype photography specifically, in contrast to other historic photographic processes included in the show, i.e. daguerreotypes and ambrotypes. The material and techniques involved in the tintype photographic process allowed more mobility for photographers as well as a more affordable cost, thus bringing access to the medium to a more diverse and often unprecedented representation of people (and animals).
Interviewed Jeff Rosenheim, Curator in Charge of Department of Photographs, in department audio booth with questions written by myself and Producer Melissa Bell that would tell the most accessible and engaging story about this medium. Selected key highlights and thematic groupings of photographs to be pulled from the Schaeffer Collection by Photographs Conservators for feature in the video. Finally, worked with Editor in review stages to provide constructive feedback to tighten up and shape the story as needed.
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Production Credits
Narrator: Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of Photographs
Art Handlers: Natasha Kung, Assistant Conservator, Photograph Conservation Virginia McBride, Research Associate, Photographs Producer: Melissa Bell
Associate Producer: Lela Jenkins
Editor: Lucas Groth
Cinematographer: Jessy Price
Original Music: Austin Fisher
