Oakland Journal Number 19: Fall 2010

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Natives: Ambrotypes from the Digital Frontier
(Oakland University, 2010-10-01) Evans, Susan E.; Cole, Natalie B.
After the invention of wet plate photography, the ambrotypist/ferrotypist traveled the Western frontier in wagons, photographing those living on the fringe of civilization. Nearly 160 years later, I travel the new frontier of online communities, photographing those paving the way.
Saving a Haitian National Icon: Guillon-Lethière’s Oath of the Ancestors
(Oakland University, 2010-10-01) Wood, Susan; Cole, Natalie B.
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière’s monumental 1822 canvas had been his labor of love, his gift to the newly independent nation of Haiti, and his declaration of political solidarity with their revolution against slavery. I could not imagine how a perishable work on canvas might survive the disaster, and the thought of its loss was heartbreaking. Therefore, I was delighted to learn recently that the painting has been found and salvaged from the wreckage of the building.