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Welcome
To those of you that have signed up recently for this Newsletter welcome and I hope you find it informative. It highlights changes and additions to Luminous-Lint. Apologies for the long delay between newsletters but I‘ve been a little busy.
Luminous-Lint is a collaborative project to weave together a coherent and freely available history of photography online. So far we have over 440 online exhibitions up and running which isn‘t bad in
about three years - join in when you can and keep watching as we continue to improve. Life in Canada is going well and I‘m gradually catching up and getting Luminous-Lint back into shape!
NEW ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
The following exhibitions have been added to Luminous-Lint recently and there are some fascinating series here:
- Nature: Dogs
"A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half poodle. He claimed that it wasn‘t much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip."
Professor Stanley Coren (University of British Columbia)
- Occupational portraits: Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief…
"Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief,
Or what about a cowboy, policeman, jailer, engine driver, or a pirate chief?"
A. A. Milne"s Now We are Six (London: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1927)
- Nature: Horses
"A thousand horse and none to ride! -
With flowing tail, and flying mane,
Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,
Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein,"
Lord Byron, XVII, Mazeppa, 1818
- David Moore: 100 Photographs An online exhibition on one of the great Austrralian photojournalists courtesy of the David Moore Estate.
- Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867) was one of the great early stereo Daguerreotypists in London
- Portrait: LIFE Photographers The release of the LIFE magazine image archives for non-commercial use will have a considerable impact on the improved understanding of the history of photojournalism.
I‘m seeking examples for upcoming exhibitions:
- Photo-micrographs - any period or type
- Nineteenth century Scientific expeditions
- Photographic identity cards and badges
- Night photography
Join in when you can and thanks to the well over 1,000 of you who have assisted with this project and to all of you working away on the upcoming exhibitions and content.
Lance Keimig is currently preparing a book for Focal Press on Night Photography and at the same time he has kindly agreed to prepare a series of online exhibitions for Luminous-Lint on the history of the subject. Some of these photographers are obscure and we are seeking biographical details or examples of images. If you are able to assist in any way it would be greatly appreciated and improve our resources for all. Thanks, Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
Photographers and images we are interested in:
E.B. Barker [2 hour moonlight view on Kodak dry plate, 1882]
John Beeby ["Cathedral Heights by Moonlight", 1898]
Harold M. Bennett
A.H. Blake [founder of the society of Night Photographers of England]
H.H. Brook
Russell Burchall (England)
Harold Burdekin and John Morrison [book "London Night", 1934, biographical info, who is the copyright holder or estate executor?]
Walter Burke, FRPS [fireworks at night]
D. Ingle Burton [Stand By Lads 1899]
John Draper [Daguerreotype of the moon, 1840]
Alexander Henderson [7 hour moonlight view, Montreal, 1880]
Richard Jahm (1861-1938) [first building by moonlight, Stenger, page 85]
Paul Foursier
William Fraser [anything other than Wet Night Columbus Circle]
John A. Frith [Bermuda, moonlight views 1887]
J.F. Hurley [American Fleet in Sydney Harbor at night, The Lighthouse, The Evening Mail]
Fred Judge [any night images]
Felix Man [color night work from the 1940s and his color night work of the Festival of Britain, 1951]
Paul Martin [any high resolution images from "London By Gaslight"]
Nadar [catacombs and sewers images taken using magnesium or electric arc lamps, high resolution scans requested]
Charles Pizzi Smith (1819-1900) [pyramid interiors taking using magnesium wire?]
M.J. Ryan
J.F. Strauss
W.M. Van Der Weyde [any night images]
Edward Van Fleet, ["Tribune Building at Night, Detroit", 1896]
William H. Whitehead
John Adams Whipple / George Phillips Bond [moon Daguerreotypes, Boston Common at night, 1863]
M.B. White [night shots of Germans bombing Moscow]
H. Wild [Picadilly Circus, West End of London at night, 1909]
Scans as JPGs or PDFs of journal pages - anybody able to assist?
a). John A. Frith, Bermuda, moonlight views 1887- Anthony‘s Photographic Bulletin. October 1887, p 589-590
b) Anthony‘s Photographic Bulletin, May 1880, p 166, April, 1882, p 121
c) Photographic and Fine Art Journal July, 1859, p 56, January, 1860, p 9-10
IF YOU COLLECT NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY OR HAVE EXAMPLES FROM ANY PERIOD WE WOULD BE MOST INTERESTED IN HEARING FROM YOU.
My own page on Facebook
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or search for Luminous-Lint you‘ll join a community of over 2,000 fellow enthusiasts. I‘m finding it useful for keeping everybody updated about what is happening on Luminous-Lint and in the world of photography
generally. To everybody who participating thanks for all your friendship, knowledge and support.
NEW ADDRESS
Want your invitations, catalogs, books and prints to arrive at my place? Well please check to make sure that you have updated your database, address book, Filofax, Rotodex (remember those?) and the strange scraps of paper stapled to your wall:
Alan Griffiths
Luminous-Lint
Box 33055
Quinpool RPO
Halifax NS B3L 4T6
CANADA
IMPORTANT: Couriers, such as Fedex and UPS, require a street address and telephone number so send me an email (alan@luminous-lint.com) to obtain further instructions if that is the way you ship.
To get a wider perspective on the topics covered on Luminous-Lint the following links will help. |
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What‘s New on Luminous-Lint |
Jack Delano (1914, 1 August - 1997) was born - Russia, Ukraine, Kiev. Socially committed documentary photographer who worked for the FSA (Farm Security Administration) in the USA and later settled in Puerto Rico.
Rudolf Dührkoop (1848, 1 August - 1918) was born - Germany, Hamburg. German pictorialist photographer based in Hamburg. His work was included in Die Kunst in der Photographie. He was also a member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood.
Josef Ehm (1909, 1 August - 1989) was born - Habartov. Czech photographer.
Jaromír Funke (1896, 1 August - 1945, 22 March) was born - Bohemia, Skutec. Czech photographer.
Mario Giacomelli (1925, 1 August - 2000, 25 November) was born - Italy, Ancona, Senigallia. Italian painter, poet and photographer. Wonderful motion shots of Italian priests and stark black and white landscapes. He also was noted for his documentary photographs of Italian life and his abstract black and white landscapes.
Tod Papageorge (1940, 1 August - ) was born - US, NH, Portsmouth. American photographer and photography professor at Yale University. |
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 | Roger Ballen: Boarding House
Roger Ballen
David Travis
(Phaidon Press, 2009)
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Bruce Davidson
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 | Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s
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Ivan Vartanian
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 | The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography
Lyle Rexer
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Danny Lyon
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