The area of impact I decided to choose was under the section "What We See" the article is called Photography Changes How Art History Is Taught by Diane Moss.
In this Article, Moss talks about in the late 19th century Harvard University students started putting up poster images from magazines, and photographs of paintings. This was not specific to the year 1900 or Harvard specifically as College students did so as well. The Harvard President Charles Elliot, as well as other educators were buying photographic reproductions of art works at high quality to control and teach high culture to their students. Local firms such as the Perry Picture Company, Boston critics, and educators started to express concern that if the Universities and Colleges gave out high quality Photographic Reproductions of paintings that they would disappear or appear in their opinion a less desirable environement such as shop windows, personal scrapbooks, and on student's walls. The Colleges chose to continue selling or lending to local residents or students to spread the display of art work. Charles Elliot, wanted to teach his students about the history of art and get them away from textbook learning. He hired art historian Charles Edward Norton in 1874 who taught his students to use and study the photographs and compare them to one art work. When the Harvard's Fogg Art Museum opened in 1895, they were devoted to purchasing reproductions of art and hundreds of pictures of European masterpieces for students to compare during the school year. Photographs of the world's art works soon entered other universities and colleges to teach their students the same way as Harvard taught their students. The students were familiar with the art works and studied them and cmpared them with their own photographs of friends, and family. The students continued to take what they learned in their art history classes and decorate their rooms with photographs of art work or paintings. Today, students still use photographs of paintings from the internet to put them on websites such as facebook.
In this Article, Moss talks about in the late 19th century Harvard University students started putting up poster images from magazines, and photographs of paintings. This was not specific to the year 1900 or Harvard specifically as College students did so as well. The Harvard President Charles Elliot, as well as other educators were buying photographic reproductions of art works at high quality to control and teach high culture to their students. Local firms such as the Perry Picture Company, Boston critics, and educators started to express concern that if the Universities and Colleges gave out high quality Photographic Reproductions of paintings that they would disappear or appear in their opinion a less desirable environement such as shop windows, personal scrapbooks, and on student's walls. The Colleges chose to continue selling or lending to local residents or students to spread the display of art work. Charles Elliot, wanted to teach his students about the history of art and get them away from textbook learning. He hired art historian Charles Edward Norton in 1874 who taught his students to use and study the photographs and compare them to one art work. When the Harvard's Fogg Art Museum opened in 1895, they were devoted to purchasing reproductions of art and hundreds of pictures of European masterpieces for students to compare during the school year. Photographs of the world's art works soon entered other universities and colleges to teach their students the same way as Harvard taught their students. The students were familiar with the art works and studied them and cmpared them with their own photographs of friends, and family. The students continued to take what they learned in their art history classes and decorate their rooms with photographs of art work or paintings. Today, students still use photographs of paintings from the internet to put them on websites such as facebook.
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