Focus your lens on the past and take a picture-perfect journey through photography of the Victorian era and beyond!

Join us at Wildwood Historic Center for this special event featuring displays of Ware family tintype photographs, glass negatives, and prints. See stereoscopes and stereograms, photo albums, photographs, slides, and cameras throughout the years.

Make and Take: Sept 20, 21, and 27
Photographic Blue Print
“Cyanotype” was developed in 1842 and produces a blue picture using the sun (UV rays).

Special Demo: Sat, Sept 27 - 12- 5pm
Large Format View Camera w/ Elise Kirk
Look through a large format camera and see the image on the ground glass and learn about composition and focusing. See examples of glass plate photographs.

Elise Kirk is a photographic artist and educator concerned with human nature in an ecological world, and the ways in which we construct ourselves through our environments. She was raised in middle-Missouri, studied film at Columbia College Chicago and on a U.S. Fulbright award in Madrid, and completed her MFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. She worked for a decade as a media producer in New York and Washington, D.C. for clients including National Geographic, Discovery, and VICE, leading to an expanded documentary approach in her own practice. Elise has participated in numerous residencies, including the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, and the U.S. National Park Service. She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.