[TAGS] exploring the 3-D photographs exhibit at the Newseum

Mon Mar 12 22:46:18 UTC 2018

Thanks Cheryl,
Your vivid and detailed description helps me to feel like I too had the same experience…!

I hope to experience the “Newseum“ in the very near future.
Thanks again,
Marguerite Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 12, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Ann Cunningham via TAGS <tags at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Wow, what an endorsement, Dan, I can hardly wait to see them myself. Art Power! Congratulations to John Olson.
> Ann 
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> Subject: Re: [TAGS] exploring the 3-D photographs exhibit at the Newseum
> From: Dan Burke via TAGS <tags at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Mon, March 12, 2018 8:13 am
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> Cc: Dan Burke <dburke at cocenter.org>
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> I want to echo Cheryl's recommendation to take in the Marines and Tet exhibit at the Newseum in DC. My wife and I missed the reception during Washington Seminar because our last appointment put us on a deserted, blocked off, Independence Avenue. No cabs or Lyfts were obtainable. Instead, we went the next afternoon and we were the only ones in the exhibit. We had all the time in the world to explore the tactile versions of John Olson's photos, but also had the same issue with the touch sensors. We had to learn to take turns, after playing the recorded descriptions, etc. 
> 
> As to the chronological order, we turned right instead of left when we entered the exhibit, so it took a bit to realize that they were in order. I suppose we should have used the Braille guide for that specific exhibit, but we were too eager to get at it.
> 
> I can't imagine that the audio features of the exhibit were anything but gibberish in the crowded reception the evening before. Really, only one pair of hands can explore at a time as each sensor interrupts the audio that might be playing, whether the descriptions or interviews or the other sensors on a given photo.
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> But more than all that, this is a powerful set of photos and its accessibility made it a powerful, emotional experience for me. Both the images and the voices of the Marines are with me even now some six weeks later.
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> Best,
> Dan
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> From: TAGS <tags-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Cheryl Fogle-Hatch via TAGS
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 1:15 AM
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> Cc: Cheryl Fogle-Hatch <c.k.fogle at gmail.com>
> Subject: [TAGS] exploring the 3-D photographs exhibit at the Newseum
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> If you are in the D.C. area between now and the beginning of July, I highly recommend viewing this exhibit. Some of you may have already checked it out during Washington Seminar in January. I took a small group there this weekend and I am sharing my thoughts.
> 
> Exploring the 3-D photographs of the Marines at Tet, an exhibit at the Newseum
> 
> We enjoyed the freedom of coming to an inclusive, and accessible, museum exhibit on our own schedule.
> The 3-D photos are placed horizontally on panels about 3 feet off of the ground and they have slightly smaller width and length dimensions.
> Each panel has buttons in front with print and braille labels included for the photo title. In a standardized layout, the leftmost button when pressed played a description of the photo (who, what, where) to the right buttons gave access to audio clips of interviews with the marines who were identified in the photos.
> 
> The photos contained embedded sensors (small dots about the size of the fingertip. These sensors labeled part of the image (e.g. gun, or, marine name) when the sensor was on a person. Touching the sensor played the clip of the interview. The clip would play or could be stopped when another sensor was access or another button was pushed.
> Moving around the same sensor triggered it to repeat sometimes causing a stuttering sound through the speaker. The single speaker was triggered when two people touched the photo in different places. The most recent sensor-tuch event always interrupted the previous audio clip that was being played.
> 
> Since two people were exploring the panels together, we developed the following strategy to minimize cutting between labelled audio clips:
> 1. press the button for the description
> 2. press each of the remaining buttons from left to right in order to play all audio clips associated with the photo.
> 3. Then we took turns exploring the photo and triggered each of the sensors as they were encountered.
> 
> perspective
> foreground and background description was helpful to understand the photos.
> Objects in the foreground appeared larger than those in the background.
> Since the photos were chronological, it was easier to identify repeated elements such as the ruined building where the marines were located even as its perspective changed from background to foreground.
> 
> tactile differentiation
> irregular shapes in the photos were easiest to identify by touch
> (example: amunition worn on the belt was more distinct than the m16 rifle, but once labelled, the shape of the gun was identifiable). The shapes of hands and heads were also readily identifiable. square shapes such as the canteens and backpacks were harder to identify.
> textured rough for ground was helpful.
> 
> We also noticed that sighted visitors were playing the audio interview clips, and some triggered the sensors in the 3-D photos.
> 
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