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| Domenico Anderson [Attributed to], Panoramic view of the Forum Romanum, the Temple of Saturn in the foreground, ca. 1887, Albumen prints, Bassenge Photography Auctions |
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Luminous-Lint uses 126,980 photographs from 4,067 different collections around the world to create detailed and well structured histories of photography. |
| Details on 21,093 photographers, using 50,717 different names, are included on Luminous-Lint with examples whenever possible. |
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Luminous-Lint includes 1,008 distinct, but interlinked, histories of photography that are evolving on a regular basis |
| The connections between photographs are critical to understanding and Luminous-Lint includes 14,857 visual indexes to assist. |
Luminous-Lint helps curators with exhibition planning, displays difficult-to-find resources for those in education and encourages photographers to better understand their originality by placing it within a historical context.
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Luminous-Lint brings together photographs from thousands of public and private collections assisting in exhibition planning. We put people in contact who need to know each other. |
Whether planning a book, research article or a lecture Luminous-Lint brings together significant photographs and provides the lesser-known but connected ones. It encourages visual exploration and analysis |
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For collectors who are passionate about photography we collaborate to show their collections and integrate their discoveries into the global histories of photography. From vernacular photography to film envelopes we have it all. |
Textbooks are expensive and can not possibly include the range of examples necessary to gain a thorough understanding of a topic. Luminous-Lint goes deeper frequently including all the illustrations from significant series accompanied by texts, footnotes and references. |
Luminous-Lint helps photographers place their own work with the broader historical context. It encourages the open-minded to examine their own originality and improve their work. |
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ContentsThemes, or genres, are at the core of Luminous-Lint as they bring together photographs, texts, footnotes, reading lists for further research, photographers worth investigating, online exhibitions and visual indexes to build increasingly coherent histories. These evolve everyday as fellow enthusiasts contribute new images and insights. |
AlphabeticalASTRACT to ZOOS - A listing of the Themes for you to browse. |
StylesMany confusing terms are used within Photohistory as a shorthand to explain time periods, stylistic choices in subject matter and compositions and groupings of photographers based on significant exhibitions. Naturalism, Surrealism, New Topographics, Orientalism and many other styles and movements are explained with examples. |
FragmentsFragments are the building blocks used to construct Themes. They are constantly under change as new images and information arrive in. Nothing is fixed and it is part of the core philosophy of Luminous-Lint that knowledge evolves. Hundreds of changes happen every day to these Fragments. |
CalendarsIf you need to know what happened on a specific day or month of the year the Calendars are a useful guide. They highlight key events and the births and deaths of photographers. |
TechniquesEach of the significant techniques used in early photography are discussed in detail with examples. There are also Visual Indexes bringing together photographs created by the more obscure techniques. |
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