{"id":1199,"date":"2014-12-16T13:42:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2014-12-16T13:42:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:42:45","slug":"new-digital-exhibition-our-friend-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/new-digital-exhibition-our-friend-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"New digital exhibition:  Our friend, the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-16-at-1.16.28-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1201\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-16-at-1.16.28-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-12-16 at 1.16.28 PM\" width=\"319\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-16-at-1.16.28-PM.png 319w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-16-at-1.16.28-PM-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a>A gloomy winter day seems the perfect time to launch a digital exhibition about the therapeutic effects of the sun. The digital exhibit delves into the visual culture of <a title=\"Heliotherapy\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/sun\/browse.php?p=001\" target=\"_blank\">Heliotherapy<\/a>, an ancient practice of total bodily exposure to sunlight, and <a title=\"Phototherapy\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/sun\/browse.php?p=003\" target=\"_blank\">Phototherapy<\/a>, an electric light therapy pioneered in the 1890s. How heliotherapeutic and phototherapeutic practices were disseminated and popularized within the history and visual culture of light therapeutics during the early twentieth century will be explored using illustrated texts and objects from the <a title=\"Osler library branch information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/branches\/osler\" target=\"_blank\">Osler Library<\/a>&#8216;s collection \u2013 so too will themes of <a title=\"Pleasure and discomfort theme\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/sun\/browse.php?p=007\" target=\"_blank\">pleasure and discomfort<\/a>, ancient and modern, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/sun\/browse.php?p=005\" target=\"_blank\">natural and artificial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a break and learn more at\u00a0<a title=\"Our Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics from the Osler Library Collection, c.1901-1944\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/sun\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/sun\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/sun\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/public_screen_sun_exhibit.png\" alt=\"Promo slide for Olser exhibition \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/public_screen_sun_exhibit.png 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/public_screen_sun_exhibit-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/public_screen_sun_exhibit-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/12\/public_screen_sun_exhibit-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gloomy winter day seems the perfect time to launch a digital exhibition about the therapeutic effects of the sun. The digital exhibit delves into the visual culture of Heliotherapy, an ancient practice of total bodily exposure to sunlight, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/new-digital-exhibition-our-friend-the-sun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osler","tag-digital-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}