What is this all about?

This curated collection on the Kodak Brownie Camera is my response to a course assignment for "Textual Machinery & Rhetorical Agency, Ancient to Digital" within Syracuse Universities Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program. As a graduate student of art education visual literacy and the idea of 'democratization' of literacy is of high importance to me. This blog, while originally about the Kodak Brownie as a dead technology, has taken a focus on the advertising campaigns that revolved around this technology, and the agency that they attempted to ascribe to their target audiences. This emphasis is a reflection on my cross-departmental interest in visual culture, the importance of recognizing and interpreting it, and the depth of information it can reveal to us as researchers.

On a technical note:

• This blog has been reformatted, it may be most useful if read in a 'top to bottom' manner.