Field trip to Norton on Thurs, Aug 26, during the class period

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Jennifer DeFratis of the RW Norton staff will give a spiel on the Ansel Adams photos as well as another section of the Norton when students and parents visit the Norton gallery on Th, Aug 26.

Please see the web site: Rwnaf.org

discussion vocab -
- mausoleum / ossified
- vibrant
- Lewis Norton, Jr, visionary
- Americana
- Frederick Remington, Charles Russell: kinetic sculpture

History of Photography

-Nicephore Niepce, French
- Louis Daguerre, French: Daguerreotype (Matthew Brady), metal plate
- Wm Henry Fox Talbot, British: callotypes

- precursor
- camera obscura ("room," "dark")
- pinhole camera

WC: the impact of the long-lived British Empire.