Call for Participation: Be a Co-Curator! Archives & Special Collections
Eye of the Beholder 2: One Image, Many Perspectives, October 1, 2009-?
September 2009. The exhibit challenge to participants: to take the image above and provide an interpretation from their own perspective. Professional, personal, anything.
THE EXHIBIT: Archives & Special Collections is mounting an exhibit to demonstrate how a single item: this image in particular, could be used/interpreted/described in a variety of ways based on the viewer’s knowledge, skills, and areas of interest. If you’d like to alter the image in some way as all of or a part of your interpretation, we’d welcome that as well.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Deadline for submissions is September 28. We seek specialists in any field to provide their interpretation of this image for use in the exhibit. What do you have to say about this image? Would you like to interpret it from your own area of expertise whether it be scientific, historical, hiking, or culinary? Or anything else? Are you a graphic artist who would like to take the image and alter it and use it in some way? Does it prompt a story, a poem, a song? Or an Op-Ed piece? Submit entries to our email using the Contact Us link below. Please provide your name, title, and email address, and short description of your own perspective or specialization. Or drop it by the Archives between 10-4, M-F.
The Archives will retain all submissions as part of the exhibit file. An online version of the exhibit will be posted at a later date.
- The exact caption for the photograph in the original album is: Cooking over Fumarole Five.
- The photograph was taken in 1919 in the Valley of 10,000 Smokes (Katmai).
- The photographer was Emery Clifford Kolb, one of a number of people on a National Geographic expedition to the Katmai area that year.
- National Geographic was conducting the expedition to trace the effects of the 1912 Katmai eruption.
- The photograph is from volume 7 (photo #6283) of National Geographic Society Katmai expedition photographs, 1913-1919, Archives & Special Collections, Consortium Library.