[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] thank you, everybody. Im here to introduce bonnie with whom i was lucky enough to work on the book. Revealing how the other half lived. Early in her career she was 234 d. C. Working in the print room. And from 1987 to 1991, she was a curiator of prints and photographs at the museum of the city of new york. Thats where she was first able to work with the collection of photographs. Since leaving the museum she has been an independent curator and photographic historian work with with the new york historicle society, the columbia and the south street museum. And since 1988 she has also taught in the department of photography video and related media at the school of visual arts in new york where she curets the show and shows as a mentor. In addition to the show, bonnie has carried numerous exhibitions. That also traveled to other cities. And an exhibition in new york t the south street Seaport Museum in 2010. Of course, she cure yated
Road to the white house read wind airs every sunday. We will air highline highlights back to 1948 from democratic conventions and republican conventions. Only on cspan3. You are alone looking at a time lapse video showing the process of constructing the exhibition, jacob rees revealing how the other half we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life journalist, social reformer, and photographer. My name is bonnie yochelson. I wrote the complete collection catalog of riis photographs published on the occasion of this exhibition. My engagement with the collection started in the 1980s when i was curator of the museum of the city of new york which owns his new york photographs. There is a great paradox to riis photographs. He was a journalist and celebrity. He saved all of the documentation of his career. He wanted to be remembered for posterity. He created scrapbooks, he saved his manuscripts. Every scrap of paper. He abandoned his photographs beca
Photography as a mechanism for poverty in new york city during the late 19th and early 20th century. Like of congress for the book hosted this event. Thank you everybody. Im here to introduce bonnie yochelson. Whom i was lucky enough to work on the book. Bonnie is originally from the d. C. Area. But shes made her long time home in new york city. She graduated from college. Pursued a masters and doctorate from new york university. Early in her career; he was back in d. C. Working in the print room. From 1987 she was a curattor of prints and photographs at the museum at the city of new york. Thats since leaving the museum, shes been an independent curator and photographic historians working with the New York Historical society and the south Sea Port Museum. Since 1988 she taught in the msa program in the department of photography, video at the school of visual arts in new york. In addition to the thesis show bonnie carried numerous exhibition at the ubs art gallery in new york in 2001. T
Issue with the spectrum and make it more usable in that kind of environment. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Youre looking at a time lapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis, revealing how the other half lives. Next, on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danish born journalist and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director and office of the library of congress. Im barbara bair, the curator of this exhibit and im a historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives is a copresentation with a museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the jacob riis papers have been married with the photographs that are stellar collection
Occur for elder smoot before he would be allowed to sit in the senate. They called on the testimony of leaders of the church and others jobs receive smith. He was called out to testify and when they would ask him a series of questions mostly about the practice of polygamy. At the time president smith was a practicing polygamist. Theres some good political cartoons related to this time period and in looking through the papers, unfortunately, i did not see any that reed smoot kept or not part of his original papers. Heres a few that relate to this time period, some of these might be related to the fears that were going on. Some of these relate to the testimony of president smith. There are some things that were said that kind of put the church in a bad light or put him in a bad light that maybe werent the most helpful to reed smoot, to senator smoot at the time. This one showing how smoot may have felt after hearing president smiths testimony. But they were all over. There were Many Poli