Photographic Eye Research Articles

Family: a portrait of gay and lesbian America

This volume examines the complex nature of gay and lesbian experience in the United States. This family is multicultural and varied in age, background, religion and political views. The author's photographic eye captures common and uncommon moments in the lives of gay and lesbian America in an assemblage of black-and-white prints. Bending the stereotypes of who gay people are, this book portrays: Christian lesbians who next to Jesus, love each other the most; three gay Mormon brothers; gay Elvis impersonators; a young gay republican; and famous faces like Roberta Achtenberg and Cleve Jones. Their portraits illuminate a different vision of what is meant when people say family.

Diabetic photographic eye screening using a mobile unit in Tayside, Scotland.

Early detection and hospital referral of patients with diabetic changes (retinopathy) is essential if laser photocoagulation is to be effective. The British Diabetic Association (BDA) have therefore funded several diabetic mobile eye screening units and donated them to areas throughout the country, the aim being to screen patients for diabetic retinopathy in those areas. This article describes the use and findings of such a unit in the Tayside area.

The Origin of Photographic Eye and Expression (I)

The Origin of Photographic Eye and Expression (I)

L'Irlande de Paul Morand

Diplomat, globe trotter, essayist, novelist, travel writer, member of the Académie Française, Paul Morand is a literary master of the inter-war period. His books are a state of the world reflected by a photographic eye which captures every single detail. In this intimate geography, Ireland stands apart, painted with humour, understanding and charm. This article is an invitation to visit Paul Morand's Other Island.

A photographic prosthetic eye.

An alternative to the fitting of intra-orbital plastic prosthetic eyes is to use a photographic prosthetic eye, which can be attached to spectacle frames and can be used either on a temporary or permanent basis. It is simple and economic to produce and fully acceptable to the wearer.

The Bicycle Kodak

In 1897 Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York, introduced a camera for use on bicycles called the Bicycle Kodak. The Bicycle Kodak marks a significant historical point in the industrial age, representative of a growing democratization of environmental experience and perception. The development of the bicycle and photography (the kodak), independently and in their interrelationship, radically altered our landscape perception and experience. Both inventions are experiential and perceptual extensions. (Media, in McLuhan's terminology.) The spatial extension of travel has an additional temporal extension in photography. The bicycle is responsible for extending the physical territory of many persons as an individualized, self-propelled, controlled and modulated mode of transportation. It also introduced a new set of environmental experiences in the individual control of speed and motion. Photography was also a territorial extension in capturing images of the world and bringing them to people. This process changes their perception of that world. People began to see photographically and experience places vicariously through the photographic medium. The Kodak extended photography to all, and in turn helped democratize the photographic eye. The bicycle and photography changed our relationship to, and experience of, places. The Bicycle Kodak is an artifact. It can be taken as a metaphor for the symbiotic relationship between travel and photography.

Shahn & Shahn, by Margaret R. Weiss

Review| February 01 1976 Shahn & Shahn, by Margaret R. Weiss Ben Shahn, Photographer: An Album from the Thirties Edited, with an Introduction by Margaret R. Weiss Da Capo Press/82 plates/&9.95 (hb)The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn Edited by Davis Pratt Harvard University Press/147 pp./$15.00 (hb) William Stott William Stott William Stott, the author of Documentary Expression and Thirties America, teaches at the University of Texas. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1976) 3 (8): 16. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1976.3.8.16 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation William Stott; Shahn & Shahn, by Margaret R. Weiss. Afterimage 1 February 1976; 3 (8): 16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1976.3.8.16 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAfterimage Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1976 by The Regents of the University of California1976 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The Optimum Densities of Radiographs

In this paper certain photographic factors affecting the discernibility of fine flaws in the radiographs of otherwise uniform objects are considered. It is shown that the actual difference in blackening Δ B between the radiograph of a defect and the uniform background depends on the density of the radiograph, and, at least up to densities of 5, increases with increasing density. In general, however, a radiograph is examined by eye, and the blackening difference Δ B which can be appreciated is a function of the brightness of the surface examined, and depends on the value of the Fechner fraction appropriate to the circumstances. In the range considered, the brighter the surface the smaller the value of Δ B which can be appreciated. The combined effect of photographic sensitivity and eye sensitivity results in a range of densities for which the resolution of a radiograph is greatest. If the radiograph is of good photographic quality, this range of optimum densities extends from about 1 to 2.