{"id":176,"date":"2016-10-03T01:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T08:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=176"},"modified":"2016-10-03T01:38:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T08:38:23","slug":"week-1-photogrammar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/03\/week-1-photogrammar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1: Photogrammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project I&#8217;m covering is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/photogrammar.yale.edu\/map\/\">Photogrammar<\/a>, a database of photography projects sponsored by the federal government from 1935-1944, which was collected by the Farm Security Administration &#8211; Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-299\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-02-at-11.09.44-PM-300x173.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-02-at-11-09-44-pm\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-02-at-11.09.44-PM-300x173.png 300w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-02-at-11.09.44-PM-768x442.png 768w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-02-at-11.09.44-PM-1024x590.png 1024w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-02-at-11.09.44-PM.png 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even with over 170,000 photos in the\u00a0collection, only about 88,000 were placed into the FSA-OWI&#8217;s cabinets, organized using Paul Vanderbilt&#8217;s Lot Number system and Classification Tags system. (This is what is used to search throughout the Photogrammar website).<\/p>\n<p>The photos themselves were taken throughout the decade-long\u00a0time period, which also happened to be when World War II was being fought (although the United States would not enter the war until after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941). They were taken by various photographers, 15 of which are shown on the Photogrammar website. The team behind Photogrammar took the negatives of these photos and scanned them, digitizing them to be added to their digital archive and shown to the world via computer screen.<\/p>\n<p>The Photogrammar team decided the best way to\u00a0create meaningful visualizations for this set of data would be to make their main map a density map by county (shown above) and by photographer. By doing so, they were able to succinctly show where the Federal government was sending its contracted photographers, although the reasons why can only be\u00a0speculated. However, what is more interesting are their visualizations that can be seen under the &#8220;Lab&#8221; tab on the top right hand corner of their website. Under the Lab, there are three different types of interactive visualizations that are dissimilar to the two main maps and can allow for further analysis of the images, from how Vanderbilt decided to classify the images as, to the metadata dashboard where the relationship between the photographer, the date, and the subject can be further analyzed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-337\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-03-at-1.20.38-AM-300x170.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-03-at-1-20-38-am\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-03-at-1.20.38-AM-300x170.png 300w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-03-at-1.20.38-AM-768x436.png 768w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-03-at-1.20.38-AM-1024x581.png 1024w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-03-at-1.20.38-AM.png 1075w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*Also, funnily enough, my hometown is featured on the Photogrammar website <a href=\"http:\/\/photogrammar.yale.edu\/search\/results.php?start=0&amp;search=&amp;pname=&amp;lot=&amp;van=&amp;state=California&amp;county=Marin&amp;city=&amp;year_start=1941&amp;month_start=0&amp;year_stop=1942&amp;month_stop=12\">here<\/a>. In one of the pictures, I recognize some\u00a0buildings that are still around in the Historic Downtown.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-334\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-03-at-1.21.42-AM-300x157.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-03-at-1-21-42-am\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-03-at-1.21.42-AM-300x157.png 300w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-03-at-1.21.42-AM-768x401.png 768w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-03-at-1.21.42-AM.png 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project I&#8217;m covering is\u00a0Photogrammar, a database of photography projects sponsored by the federal government from 1935-1944, which was collected by the Farm Security Administration &#8211; Office of War Information &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/03\/week-1-photogrammar-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 1: Photogrammar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}