Summary: Photography as a form of transportation is the topic for class #5. We look at how the advent of wet-plate collodion technology spurred the advance of travel and landscape photography, with a special emphasis on photography of the American west. There is also a brief exploration of 20th century photographers who went “on the road” as well as a look at the way 21st Century technology like <a href="http://www.google.com/earth/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Earth</a>, <a href="http://gigapan.org/gigapans/most_popular/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gigapan</a> and <a href="http://photosynth.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Photosynth</a> are changing the way in which we are able to see the distant parts of the globe for ourselves.<br> <br> * <a href="http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com/wp-content/slides/transport/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Slides from this class session</a><br> * <a href="http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com/wp-content/PDF/Travel.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Handout from this class session</a><br> <br>
