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WELCOME and HOLIDAY GREETINGS
Luminous-Lint has rolled through another year since the move to Canada. Several
moves and days of packing and unpacking are completed and we are now settled and will be able to get back into the flow in 2010. I‘d like to wish all of you
a fantastic holiday and a wonderful 2010 with lots of photographic discoveries, new insights and good companions in our travels through photo-history. All the best and thanks for
your friendship and shared knowledge, Alan
NEW ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
The following photography exhibitions have been added to Luminous-Lint:
- An Unknown Street Photographer in Paris, 1896 This album, kindly supplied by John Toohey, is a look back to the earliest days of amateur street photography using portable cameras. The framing of these photographs of Paris is unusual and we‘ll never know if they were errors or a conscious choice made by the photographer with a Pocket Kodak.
- Marie Šechtlová: fotografie–photography 1960–1970 This online exhibition provides examples of the work of the Czechoslovakian photographer Marie Šechtlová (1928-2008) who strove to a "humanistic vision… during a decade of political and social upheaval" as Robert Hirsch puts it in his review of the new monograph of her work.
- Egypt in the 19th century With additional images by Felix Bonfils.
- Portrait: People with Masks
Lolita Pulido: Why do you wear a mask?
Zorro: Perhaps to hide the features of a Bergerac.
(The Mark of Zorro)
- Portrait: Musicians
There‘s music in the sighing of a reed;
There‘s music in the gushing of a rill;
There‘s music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
Lord Byron Don Juan Canto xv, 5
- Portrait: People with Veils
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But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese born American philosophical essayist, novelist and poet) The Prophet, Beauty XXV
- Portrait: Scientists Scientist (Synonyms): boffin, engineer, expert, genius, inventor, maven, researcher, professor, technician, technologist...
- Abstract: Lines - Grids
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, American lawyer and associate Supreme Court Justice (1870-1938)
- Abstract: Lines - Curves In mathematics, a curve consists of the points through which a continuously moving point passes. This notion captures the intuitive idea of a geometrical one-dimensional object, which furthermore is connected in the sense of having no discontinuities or gaps. (Wikipedia, Nov 9, 2009, "Curves")
- Abstract: Lines - Diagonals from the upper left to the lower right For those that appreciate the theoretical writings on photography and graphic design by György Kepes (October 4, 1906 – December 29, 2001) and László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946).
- Abstract: Lines - Diagonals from the lower left to the upper right Informally, any sloping line is called diagonal.
I‘m seeking examples for upcoming exhibitions:
- Photo-micrographs - any period or type
- Nineteenth century Scientific expeditions
- Night photography
- Cross-dressing
- Solarizations
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.
My own page on Facebook
If you go to my Facebook page - Alan Griffiths
or search for Luminous-Lint you‘ll join a community of over 2,800 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 is participating thanks for all your friendship, knowledge and support.
NEW ADDRESS
Want your invitations, catalogs, books and prints to arrive at my place? Well check your address book:
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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Yousuf Karsh (1908, 23 December - 2002, 13 July) was born - Turkey, Turkish Armenia, Mardin. Probably the most famous portrait photographer in the world, Karsh presents living sculptures to the cameras, monumental presences achieved by dramatic use of light and total concentration on the sitter.
[Contributed by Pam Roberts]
Achille Devéria (1800, 6 February - 1857, 23 December) died. French painter, printmaker and stained-glass designer. |
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