MOPA Staff Blogs
New Books in the Library
The Dubois Library has recently added these new titles to our collection:
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the Twentieth Century: Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2011)
Teaching “Eyes of a Nation”
One of the most thrilling parts of being an educator at MOPA is having the chance to teach out of the museum galleries. In leading groups through the current exhibition, Eyes of a Nation, I’ve encountered dozens of teachable moments with visitors from 4th grade to retirement, and have had the chance to pore over the photographs with a new set of eyes each time.
Dachshunds to Liberty Hounds: Anti-German Sentiment Revealed Through Mugshots
Guest post by Cairie Riney, a digitization/online access intern at the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC). For the past few months, Cairie has been working with MOPA to digitize some of the Museum’s special collections.
Joy Riding, Check Forgery, Grand Larceny
Guest post by Cairie Riney, a digitization/online access intern at the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC). For the past few months, Cairie has been working with MOPA to digitize some of the Museum’s special collections.
Women's History Month
In honor of March being celebrated as Women's History Month, I'd like to share this wonderful article written by Mrs E. N. Lockwood for an 1873 issue of Photographic Mosaics. Photographic Mosaics was published from 1866-1901, and highlighted new innovations and events happening in the world of photography at the time. As Mrs. Lockwood's passionate entreaty reminds us, women were considerably less involved in photography than men were in the mid to late 19th century, and as Naomi Rosenblum discusses in A History of Women Photographers:
The Amazing Camera Obscura!
Have you ever come across a computer from 10 years ago and find yourself wondering how anyone was impressed by such outdated technology? Technology has a short life in our day. But the exception to this is the camera obscura, a photographic technology that is over 1,000 years old and still manages to captivate our sense of wonder today.
Camera Obscura at MOPA
Saturday, March 17th is Science Family Day in Balboa Park, an exciting day of family activities at each of the museums in the Park. As in years past, MOPA will be constructing a gigantic camera obscura right out front of the Museum for your viewing pleasure. Come by the Museum to enjoy the full experience, but here’s some great images taken from books in the Dubois Library’s collection to give you a little taste of what to expect...
Book Drive
For the whole month of March, MOPA’s Dubois Library will be hosting a book drive, collecting new and used children’s books, in English and Spanish. The books will be given to Words Alive, a local non-profit that distributes books to underserved, low-income, and at-risk children, teens, and adults. Please consider donating any gently used (or new!) books for ages 0-18; donations can be dropped off inside MOPA, Tuesday- Sunday, 10:00 am-5:00 pm.
POP Thursdays: Modern Myths, Folklore, and Tall Tales
March 15th marks the first POP Thursday of 2012 and we’re shaking things up. I personally invite you to join us for an evening of modern storytelling featuring live performances by So Say We All and exclusive screenings of two short films. Yes, this is a personal invitation to you all because I have previewed the program for the evening and it is AWESOME. I wouldn’t want you to miss out!
Taking a quick break from our traditional cult film format, this upcoming POP will be made up of three parts:
Seeing the Sound through Roy DeCarava
To me, one of the most incredible qualities of photography is its ability to show you how something sounded or felt through a silent image. And the photographer who can do that reaches his/her viewers in a way that transcends the sense of sight, to a realm where vision becomes the catalyst for so much more.
