COLLEGE OF IMAGING ARTS AND SCIENCES
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences
ANNUAL FACULTY REPORT AND EVALUATION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
for the period of December 1, 2009 through November 30, 2010.
Name: ANDREW DAVIDHAZY
Department: School of Photo Arts and Sciences
Highest Degree & date: M.F.A., 1968
Date of first appointment to RIT : 07-01-66
Rank: PROFESSOR
Date present rank achieved: 1986
REVIEW of 2009-2010 PLAN of WORK and
Proposed PLAN of WORK for 2010-2011 and coming year(s).
1. Teaching/Advising
a. List courses taught (including credit hours, enrollment and any TA support)
ACCOUNTING
OF
TEACHING
ACTIVITIES
Winter 2009-10 (092)
course title
course number
credit hours
enrollment
1. SPECIAL EFFECTS PHOTOGRAPHY
16
2. PHOTOINSTRUMENTATION SEMINAR
6
3. PHOTO TECH COOP
0
1
SPRING 2009-10 (093)
course title
course number
credit hours
2076 408 01
2076 431 01
4
4
2076 499 01
enrollment
1. SURVEY OF NON-CONVEN. IMAGING
10
3. PHOTO TECH COOP
0
1
2076 503 01
3
2076 499 01
SUMMER 2009-10 (001)
course title
course number
credit hours
enrollment
1. PHOTO TECH COOP
0
11
Fall
2010-11 (101)
course title
course number
credit hours
2076 499 01
enrollment
1) As in past years I have never used a TA or GA in any of my classes.
b. Given your 2009-2010 plan of work, provide a thoughtful review of what you
have achieved relative to what you planned to do in the area of
teaching/advising. Be sure to include an analysis of student evaluations
indicating areas of strength and weaknesses as well as actions taken to address
concerns. Original documentation should not be submitted, but it should be
available upon request. (Depending on what your plan of work called for, examples
of such documentation could include one or more of the following: student
performance data, student evaluations, curricula/syllabi for new or revised
courses, advising logs/evaluations)
Well, last year I did not prepare a plan of work. In addition, whatever plan I
might have had was derailed by unexpected events in the Department.
My student evaluations have not changed over the years. I do take these to heart
but I have established teaching procedures and practices that are more flexible
than those of a freshman faculty have
In my opinion evaluations that students might provide after they have been away
from the school and are working in industry are a much better way to collect
feedback and learn from than those filled out in class when the students don't
really have a good idea of how the course contents impacts on-the-job.
I have continued to encourage my students to use a web-based evaluation service
at http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/. I don’t know what my current “ratings” are
there but I seem to be doing OK in terms of level of difficulty, helpfulness and
overall quality. I did earn a red chili pepper though.
My perception from these various methods of gathering feedback is that students
generally find me knowledgeable, approachable and helpful but sometimes lacking
in organization. I think this latter fault is most evident in my
Photoinstrumentation Seminar and Special Effects courses. In both instances there
is a strong emphasis on creativity, innovation and self-determination. Many
students are not used to such an opportunity.
For next year my plan of work vis-à-vis teaching and advising is to: Continue to
develop and incorporate more digital high speed imaging into my High Speed
course. The Cage now has a low-tech Casio Exilim cameras donated by Casio. I
bought myself one as well and will bring it to RIT for students to use as needed.
We also have access now to a higher end digital high speed camera but it is not
as "user friendly" as students expect it to be and the learning curve for
exploitation of his device is rather long and this makes its availability for
class usage difficult.
I understand that my role as advisor and mentor to Imaging and Photographic
Technology students has been curtailed and that other faculty will handle such
matters in the future. This will give me an opportunity to devote more time to
pursuing my own interests and creative endeavors.
I will become more engaged with time lapse photography and expand on my personal
efforts to produce more polished results than what I have been able to produce so
far.
2. Scholarship/Creative Activity
Given your 2009-2010 plan of work, provide a thoughtful review of what you have
achieved relative to what you planned to do in the area of scholarship/creative
activity. Original documentation should not be submitted, but it should be
available upon request. (Examples of such documentation could include summaries
of one or more of the following: published articles, editor's response to
unpublished material, exhibition reviews, reviewer's response to submitted grant
proposals, consulting outcomes.)
My proposed plan for this in past year was (although not explicitly stated in
writing): Continue to remain connected with technical professional groups such as
the IS&T and the SPIE and although I'd like to prepare another paper for
presentation at one of these group's national conferences I am not sure I have
one in me at this time. I plan on continuing to produce photographs that have
scientific validity as well as aesthetic qualities. I plan on trying to make the
exhibition of High Speed and Technical photographs available to other audiences.
I also will continue to make my images accessible and available for a variety of
purposes through the widespread use of the WWW as a tool of image availability
dissemination.
Partial listing of events and publications by Andrew Davidhazy in 2009-10
Prepared and published several books/catalogues through Lulu Press:
Annual SPAS Exhibition - this is a record of the annual SPAS exhibition by
members of the faculty of the School of Photo Arts and Sciences. This was the
third year that I prepared this catalogue and made sure that a copy was included
in the RIT archives as a permanent record of the accomplishments of SPAS faculty.
IDSA Peripheral Photographs - a collection of all the peripheral portraits made
of people attending the IDSA conference who asked to have a peripheral portrait
made during my demonstration sessions that were part of the conference.
Fotored - a collection of photographs by 28 members of the Fotored, a photography
related email based discussion group conducted in Spanish and reaching over 350
subscribers worldwide. I am the moderator/coordinator of this list and
established in 1996.
PhotoForum - a collection of photographs by 28 members of the PhotoForum, a
photography related email based discussion group reaching over 500 subscribers
worldwide. I am the moderator/coordinator of this list and established it in
1993.
SHOTS - a calendar of high speed ballistic photographs.
I also published a second edition of: Beyond the Naked Eye - Technical and
Scientific Photographs by Andrew Davidhazy
I was interviewed in Lancaster CA for a segment related to my visit to the place
and my "life story" so to speak for a podcast still available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNM4VSyGyHc
Presented a paper and gave interactive demonstrations at the IDSA (Industrial
Designers of America) national conference of 2010 that was held in Portland,
Oregon. My paper was "Adventures in Strip and Streak photography" and my
demonstrations on the conference floor were supported by the ZIBA Corporation of
Portland, OR.
Traveled on my own dime so to speak to Lewiston, NY to give a daylong
presentation at the Lewiston Porter high school, on special effects photography
to several photography classes under the supervision of Mr. Mike Townsend
I presented at the Seminar on High Speed Photography organized by the Visual
Instrumentation Corporation in Lancaster, CA in November 2010 on the topic of
Applied Streak and Strip Analog and Digital Imaging. This was to a group of about
20 government technical
photographers.
I presented a paper at the 2009
Symposium on the History of
Photography organized by The
Photographic Historical Society of
Rochester, NY of held at the George
Eastman House with a paper entitled
"The Vanishing 16 mm High Speed Motion
Picture camera". I was also a member
of the Program Committee of the
Symposium and am the Internet Liaison for the Society.
My photographs have been published worldwide in various textbooks and specialty
publications. A more complete record will be available when the RIT publication
on faculty scholarship becomes available to the general public.
I published in Tech Directions magazine (December 2009) an article on simplified
techniques for stress visualization in plastic objects.
I had an exhibition of my technical photographs on exhibit at the national
conference of the Optical Society of America that was held in Rochester in
October, 2010. As part of the same conference I also presented a daylong
demonstration as part of their E-Day event (Education day) on the topic of
"Flashing Lights".
My picture of a sneeze was used in various health related campaigns both in the
US and overseas. It is currently on view as part of a campaign at the University
of Rochester Medical Center to encourage people to prevent the dissemination of
flu germs though uncontrolled sneezing.
I was one of three photographers that were included in an article on slit-scan
photography that was published in American Photo magazine in the Nov- Dec. 2010
issue.
My photographs was used on the cover of
Water - and Life book published by CRC
Press in June 2010.
Several of my photographs are included on
the website for the outreach website
Physics To Go (www.physicstogo.org) and is
produced at the American Physical Society.
The requests come on a regular (for now)
basis from Edward Lee, lee@aps.org
The number of instances where my
photographs have been included (invariably
with mention of my association with RIT) is
just too large to list in detail. I should keep
better track of these but I must admit I am not
very good at record keeping of such matters.
I remembered another instance of overseas
publication and this was in the January 7, 2010
issue of the London Times in association with an
article on the “String Theory”. As per photo at
left and email notification below:
From: Penny, Madeleine - Times Assistant Picture Editor [madeleine.penny@thetimes.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:21 AM
To: Andrew Davidhazy
Subject: RE: note from andy davidhazy in rochester, ny
Hi Andy, Your image is in the magazine tomorrow! It looks fab, send me your
address and I'll pop a couple in the post for you. Happy New Year, all the best,
Madeleine.
I was interviewed for a program that was aired on Japanese television by FUJI TV
on the topic of what a "rolling shutter" is in digital photography and the kinds
of effects that it might produce. A compilation of what this was about can be
seen here: http://www.rit.edu/cias/appliedimaging/FUJI%20TV%20bit%202010/Fuji-TV2010-1.jpg
I participated in the Black Mountain North Symposium that was held at RIT this
past Fall with: (http://www.blackmountainnorth.org/program/) "All Day: RIT
Photography Professor Andrew Davidhazy will present Time and Space, an
interactive rollout photography demonstration. Become a part of a novel space and
time portrait photography experience that will be provided by Prof. Andrew
Davidhazy at the Innovation Center. Participate in the demonstration and receive
a signed memento print and the digital file for your use (or amusement)."
I've been planning to contribute to the USA Science and Engineering Festival in
October 23-24, 2010 and while I cannot go to Washington for the "main event"
there was an op to associate with a "satellite" event. I proposed it, they
accepted it and this is the link to its listing on the Festival's directory of
such events. http://www.usasciencefestival.org/satellite-eventdirectory?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=0&sobi2Id=60
And this is the webpage prepared for it at RIT:
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/2010-SEFestival/
I presented a lecture/demo to incoming students on Sep. 8, 2010 (or so). The
purpose was to mix a bit of technology with some "thinking" or "brain power" to
solve what is seemingly a VERY difficult photographic problem and to learn
something about the behavior of popping balloons in the process. You can see a
short video of this at:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/video/video.php?v=661423889305&comments
some of the comments that were made regarding this presentation:
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Snow Hwuang r u a teacher?
September 8, 2010 at 2:41am · LikeUnlike
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W Keith McManus Snow, yes he is, and fine one!!
September 8, 2010 at 9:25am · LikeUnlike
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Kathleen Stear an extraordinary professor!
September 8, 2010 at 9:55am · LikeUnlike
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Bret Harmen I'll bring the blender!
September 8, 2010 at 12:05pm · LikeUnlike
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Tom Barker Reminds me of Prof Shoemaker.
September 8, 2010 at 12:35pm · LikeUnlike
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Roy Dunn Wonderful and inspiring!
September 8, 2010 at 3:42pm · LikeUnlike
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John Compton Andy - For over 30 years while I taught at RIT I was fascinated by
the science and technology of photography and the skill and passion with which
you taught it. This video makes me want to get back in the classroom! For all the
crap that goes on with administration outside the classroom, when you close the
door to your classroom, you're in charge and master of the domain. Hats off to a
master!
September 8, 2010 at 7:12pm · LikeUnlike
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Nitin Sampat Concur with John 100%!
September 8, 2010 at 7:24pm · LikeUnlike
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W Keith McManus One of the things I miss about teaching at RIT was being able to
hang out with the likes of Andy.
September 8, 2010 at 7:25pm · LikeUnlike
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Bob Lewis I was a student there 1989-1991. Most memories have faded but I
remember Andy's classes fondly and I was very happy to find him here on FB. I
still think about Kushner sometimes as well.....he seemed like a good guy.
September 9, 2010 at 12:39am · LikeUnlike
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Gordon P. Brown Good job!
September 10, 2010 at 10:59am · LikeUnlike
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Gordon P. Brown I agree with John! I learned that while teaching at the Marketing
Education Center at Kodak, that the happenings outside of the door are the dues
that you pay for the enjoyment of the happenings on the other side of the door.
September 10, 2010 at 11:43am · LikeUnlike
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Ct Yeung It was fun building a sound activated switch. I used mine for Christmas
lights. Though I imagine it would be great for Halloween lights too.
September 12, 2010 at 12:01pm · LikeUnlike
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---------Participated in a workshop for technology teachers and did the paperwork and
promotion associated with organizing it. Unfortunately this was thought to be
beyond the realms of appropriateness even though it was something that had
significant historical precedence and had been recognized as a significant event
in the lives of about 250 high school teachers who had participated in such
workshops in the past.
Three of my photographs were published across a double page
spread in the recently published book by the Pars Foundation
of the Netherlands on the subject of ELASTICITY. They appear
on pages 128-129 of the book edited by Hester Aardse and
AstridVan Baalen. Copyright Lars Mueller Published 2010.
Donated 4 portrait photography opportunities to the 2008 WXXI
2008 Anniversary Auction. See details here:
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/a-docs/2010-wxxi-auction.html
Donated a photograph of Marlene Dietrich to Coyote Arts Group
2719 E Madison, Seattle, WA 98112 for their Art Benefit
Auction on November 2010. info@coyotecentral.org
Donated 6 prints to the 6x6 exhibition/auction held by Rochester
Contemporary. These, on the left, are two of them. See others at:
http://www.rochestercontemporary.org/6x6x2010.html
Donated 4 photographs to the Young Photographers Alliance auction that was held
in NYC. Two can be seen above right and the others on the event’s website here:
http://benefitevents.com/auctions/MSauctionindexFrameset.asp?auctionid=6828
I participated in the 2008 World Pinhole Photography Day project
and my photograph and description is available online at their
website at: http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/
During the course of the year I wrote and installed on my
webpage of articles about my experiments and personal
"investigations" the following pieces:
THE HAROLD "DOC" EDGERTON PIDDLER - CONSTRUCTION AND USE
Harold Edgerton is world renowned for his contributions to high speed photography
and especially to high speed electronic flashes and stroboscopes. One of his
demonstration devices is The Piddler. Construction and use details are provided
in this article.
DEALING WITH THE CASIO EXILIM CAMERA'S FRAME SPLITTING MODE DURING HS FRAMING
The Casio Exlilim camera allows recording rates at 300, 600 and 1200 frames per
second but to go to 600 and 1200 pps it cuts the frames size into 1/2 and 1/4
segments. This article presents some discussion about the topic and a possible,
though admittedly far fetched, solution.
THE WRATTEN 18A - A PROBLEMATIC FILTER FOR REFLECTED ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOGRAPHY
The Wratten 18A filter is one of the most commonly referred to and used filters
for reflected ultraviolet photography. However, it not only transmits ultraviolet
but also some infrared. This article examines the effect of the infrared
transmitted as it might affect the ultraviolet record.
ALTERNATIVE TO CORNING 9780 FOR IR LUMINESCENCE PHOTOGRAPHY
The Corning 9780 or 9788 infrared cutting filters are considered the standard to
use for infrared luminescence (or fluorescence in the infrared) photography. This
article suggests an inexpensive solution to those high priced filters.
MAKING A PC FLASH SYNCHRONIZATION SOCKET FROM SCRATCH
This describes the making of a PC flash synchronization socket such as built into
most professional grade camera bodies and used to fire an off the camera flash in
synchronization with the camera shutter.
AUDIO AMPLIFIER DRIVEN SOUND ACTIVATED SYNCHRONIZER
There are several commercial sound synchronizers available on the market but this
article describes one home-made solution to making photographs triggered by
detecting their sound. It is based on the LM 380 integrated circuit audio
amplifier. An added bonus is that it includes instructions on how to make an
improvised female PC flash connector.
DSLR BASED ROLLOUT FOR PERIPHERAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographs that show surface detail of the entire circumference of objects can
be made various ways. This article describes how to do it using a basic Digital
Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera for the purpose.
For next year more such articles are in the works.
So what are some of my other plans for next year?
I plan on devoting myself to teaching my traditional courses and developing more
experiments suitable for incorporation into the curriculum, especially in the
area of spoecial effects. This course was designed primarily as an "analog" based
course since special effects can often be easily accomplished in the "digital"
realm.
Last year I published several books through Lulu.com and I propose to publish
more work through them. I will continue to promote and send my traveling exhibits
of technical photographs to more schools nationwide. This will the third year of
this activity and the response fro the host schools has always been quite
positive. As far as I know this is the only example of photographic work produced
in SPAS that is being exhibited in high schools and colleges in the US and
Canada.
This past fall these schools hosted the collection:
SUSAN MARGOLIS, TECH ED
DANBURY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
BROADVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL
72 HOSPITAL AVENUE
DANBURY, CT
AMY BANKS, LOWER SCHOOL SCIENCE
THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL
11600 WELCH ROAD
DALLAS, TX
TIM WALKER, COMM. TECH SCI
LIVELY DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOL
265 FIFTH AVENUE
LIVELY, ON CANADA
I was asked to produce high speed photographs of a desalination process developed
here in town and also of some ballistics performance high speed photographs for a
carbine manufacturing company located in Canandaigua, NY.
I also plan on revisiting the Visual Instrumentation Seminar in California next
time it is scheduled and will be consulting at Arizona State University (along
with Jim Bales of MIT) where they are implementing an Imaging Technology program
to service the military ranges in that neighborhood.
I will participate in several exhibitions and will have my photographs published
and exhibited at several venues throughout the US and Canada. I
Who knows what else but if the past is anything to go by, opportunities for
scholarship often are unpredictable but they do come around. I will try to
continue to make the most of them as they come my way.
3. Service
Given your 2003-2004 plan of work, provide a thoughtful review of what you have
achieved relative to what you planned to do in the area of service. Original
documentation should not be submitted, but it should be available upon
request.(Examples of such documentation could include summaries of one or more of
the following: committee chair statements, recruitment calls made, high schools
visited, alumni contacts, development efforts, portfolio days.)
Well, in the past I simply stated the following: For next year I plan on
continuing to participate in high school visits, Science Exploration Days,
presentations at teacher seminars and high school photo conferences, committees,
etc.
As in the past I gave two lecture / demonstrations in the High Speed Photography
Lab to a group of about 50 visiting Lewiston Porter High School students and
their faculty.
I gave a lecture/demonstration in the High Speed Photography Lab to a group of
about 15 visiting Cleveland Community College students and their faculty.
I brought the Nikon Small World exhibition back to the School of Photographic
Arts and Sciences for the 19th year. This collection of photographs is generously
sent to us by the Nikon Corporation and is available to us for a whole year and
displayed on the walls of the Dr. Ron Francis Photographic Chemistry lab.
Development efforts:
I am a member and Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering's
Edgerton Award Committee as well as the overall Awards Committee. I am the
Internet liaison for The Photographic Historical Society and maintain for them an
Internet presence off my website. I will be helping them transition (move) this
website that has been provided to them as a community service for a number of
years to an external site. I am currently helping the Society collect abstracts
for the 2011 Symposium and expect this to be a major external service commitment
over the coming year.
Alumni Contacts: I maintain regular contact with all graduates of the Imaging and
Photographic Technology program. I keep in touch with my friends with updates and
news of job opportunities. I plan to curtail my activities in this regard as
there are more informed and capable faculty to handle such things.
My plan of work for next year: For next year I plan on continuing to participate
in presentations at meetings of professional organizations but probably not at
the level I was able to reach this past year.
4. Other
If your 2009-2010 plan of work, called for any special activity outside of the
above three categories, please provide an appropriate review of the evidence that
such plans have been achieved.
Well, I am not sure if this falls under "other" or what ... these items are
simply additional activities accomplished or in which I was significantly
involved. Most of these activities contribute, I hope, to overall school
recruitment and to keeping the image of the School of Photographic Arts and
Sciences as a center for top-notch photographic education in the minds of the
local and the larger photo/imaging community. (I used the preceding paragraph
verbatim from an older report - FYI)
In the past I stated: For next year my plan is continue to continue to stay
active on the web with the PhotoForum and Fotored mail lists and to devote less
time to the PhotoHist list. I will be active again next year as the Internet
Liaison of The Photographic Historical Society. In terms of the other
communications initiatives I plan on remaining active in terms of presentations
and visitations to local and regional high school and colleges.
I did pretty much as stated except that certain in-house developments have
interfered with some of my objectives for the past year.
I have pretty much discontinued the Photographic History (PhotoHist) mail list
which I started in the late 1990s as the competition from the Yahoo! group is
just too overwhelming to keep this small list alive.
For next year my plan is continue to continue to stay active on the web with the
PhotoForum and Fotored mail lists. I will be active again next year as a member
of the Papers Committee and being the Internet Liaison of The Photographic
Historical Society which is holding its XVth Symposium on the History of
Photography. In addition:
I will continue my long-term association with Prof. William Allen, working with
him on a collaborative project that is an INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
HISTORIANS associated with the History of Photography Group.
I plan on giving a lecture/demo at Lafayette University in Lafayette, PA on March
7, 2011 at the invitation of Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Ph.D., professor of fluid
mechanics.
I also plan on giving a presentation and workshop at Ownes Community College in
Toledo, OH on Feb. 19-21, 2011 at the invitation of Prof. Ruth Foote. This will
entail a three day effort with two devoted to traveling.
I will continue to manage the PhotoForum mail list on the Internet (going on the
17th year for the list and the 15th for the gallery) and besides dealing with day
to day issues related to smooth operation of the list itself, I am "proud" to say
that I have for one more year installed a brand new gallery of list member's
images on the web every Saturday morning of the year. I have been doing this
actually since 1996 without anyone here in SPAS really knowing anything about it.
I also have continued to look after the Fotored mail list. On Fotored the
language used is Spanish and it serves about 350 Hispanic individuals worldwide.
I do provide, as a "public service" activity, support of The Photographic
Historical Society of Rochester and give them webspace on my site (obviously
identified with SPAS and RIT!) as well as web design services.
I will continue to engage in professional consulting activities, public
presentation, etc. as in the past.
---------------------In summary, I once again (how do you like that!) want to thank all my colleagues
in the School of Photo Arts and Sciences department, as well as all its students,
for making working in the department such a pleasure (most of the time!). I am
certain when I say that without the support of my true friends my activities and
contributions would not be possible.
Again, I want to acknowledge that the list of contributions mentioned above would
not have been possible without the support of the BFA side of SPAS and in
particular that of Dr. Therese Mulligan. I appreciate the opportunity to be of
service in other ways that is made available to me by my colleagues near and far.
Thank you.
This self evaluation and your proposed plan of work for December 1, 2009 to
November 30, 2010 is due to the SPAS Administrative Chair on January 10, 2011