Week 5 Discussion Post A iscussion Board Posts 25 total s a

Last updated: 2/18/2024

Week 5 Discussion Post A iscussion Board Posts 25 total s a measure of your participation you will write 200 word minimum esponses to the readings as well as responding to at least one other post In hese posts I want to see concrete examples where you critically reflect on the readings This can include citing specific photographs and photographers theoretical connections between different readings ideas themes and or the author s own argument Please refer to my separate guide on discussion posts for full details Posts are due by Sunday 6pm almost every week There will not ANDREW J RUSSELL Trestle Work Promontory Point Salt Lake Valley circa 1868 69 from Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery 1868 10 13 inches Albu men silver print Andrew J Russell painted panoramas before documenting the Civil War and the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad during 1868 70 Russell replicated the panorama s narrative linear approach in his railroad pictures accounting for one section of track after the next hardly getting out of sight of the rails The photog raphers accompanying the government surveys traveling along invisible meridi an and parallel lines labeled their prints with their precise locations Russell not only documented the joining of the rails but also the engineering accomplish ments of a multinational work crew composed largely of Chinese immigrants The cks trestles and water towers added new