With a New Eye: The Digital National Parks Project. A Virtual Lecture

  • Wednesday, February 17, 2021 6:00 PM  7:30 PM
Travertine, Mammoth. Yellowstone Nat’l Park. Photograph Copyright © 1995 by Stephen Johnson. All rights reserved worldwide.

An exploration of “With a New Eye” the digital photographic survey of selected American National Parks from 1994 through 2006. The project employs a BetterLight and modified Dicomed digital insert, a Sinar-X 4×5 camera, and the Macintosh PowerBook540c through MacBook Pro for completely portable digital photography of very high quality. The camera is capable of color, black and white, and infrared photographs of extremely high resolution and dynamic range (6000×8000 pixels, 140MB files with more than 11 stops of exposure latitude).

Based on the exhibition:  With a New Eye.