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WELCOME
I‘m pleased to send news of the latest series of exhibitions for Luminous-Lint. As you may have noticed exhibitions are never static so if you have better quality images, a refreshing idea, a correction or a suggestion that would be most welcome. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.
Alan
alan@luminous-lint.com
NEW ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
- Antarctica - Le Grand Blanc
Great God! This is an awful place
This online exhibition coincides with the exhibition "Le Grand Blanc: La Photographie et la Course au Pole Sud 1907-1916" at L’Atelier d’Artistes, 74 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris (10th November-11th December 2010). Many thanks to the gallery and Daniella Dangoor for providing these photographs.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on locations:
- Hill & Adamson - Newhaven
Newhaven.—To the west of Leith, beyond the Fort, is the fishing village of Newhaven, with one or two inns, where excellent fish-dinners may be had. The picturesque dress of the Newhaven fish-women will not escape the notice of a stranger. The place was founded by King James IV. (1488-1513), who here built larger ships than had ever been seen in the Scottish navy.
Guide to Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1860), p.62
For a study of this series read:
Stevenson, Sara (1992) Hill and Adamson‘s Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth (National Galleries of Scotland) [0903598159]
- Nadar - Galerie Contemporaine A classic series of nineteenth century French portraiture by Nadar. This is one of those series rather like Men of Mark that is mentioned in histories of photography but people rarely get to see more than one or two of the famous photographs.
- Indian Mutiny (1858) I would like to enhance this exhibition with contemporary engravings and woodcuts from the illustrated magazines of the day and I am particularly interested in images that are based on known photographs.
- Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860) This online exhibition will improve over time so do suggest additional photographs. I‘ve included some images of opium smokers and the slightly later photograph of the purveyors of opium Jardine Matheson and Co in Hong Kong. This is an example of immoral British commercial interests at work during the nineteenth century.
The best account I have come across on these photographs is David Harris Of Battle and Beauty: Felice Beato‘s Photographs of China (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999) This covers the Michael Wilson collection of Beato photographs which I believe is now at the Getty Center.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on War photography:
- 19th Century Photograph Album covers These is the first of a series of exhibitions on nineteenth century photograph album covers. I‘m delighted to announce that several major private collectors in North America and Europe have agreed to provide unpublished examples from their collections and these will appear in forthcoming exhibitions. This is a topic that has long been neglected in photo-history so I welcome examples.
- 19th Century Photograph Albums with decorated pages The books by Elizabeth Siegal and the touring exhibition show wonderful examples of these and should be on the shelf of anybody interested in photo-history and graphic art.
Elizabeth Siegal, Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage (The Art Institute of Chicago In association with London & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
Elizabeth Siegal with Martha Packer, The Marvelous Album of Madame B: Being the Handiwork of a Victorian Lady of Considerable Talent (The Art Institute of Chicago with Scala Publishers Limited, 2009)
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions with examples of Photograph Albums:
- Images of a Capital - The Impressionists in Paris An unusual exhibition is just starting in Essen’s Museum Folkwang, during the last three months of the German city’s year as European Cultural Capital. It takes as its brief Paris during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, a period when the French capital had become the focus of numerous artists and photographers.
This is a unique occasion, for it enables visitors to see some of the city’s major landmarks at a time when they were novelties: the Haussman boulevards, the Gare St Lazare, railway bridges, the Paris metro, the Sacré Coeur and to compare the differing treatment of the same subjects by artists and photographers.
As well as over 80 Impressionist canvasses (Manet, Pissarro, Monet, Renoir, Caillebotte, and the lesser seen Luce and Goeneutte), the exhibition is presenting 120 photographs by, among others, Gustave le Gray, Edouard Baldus, Charles Marville, Louis-Emile Durandelle and Henri Rivière.
Images of a Capital - The Impressionists in Paris, starting October 2, continues until January 30 2011. Thanks to Jacqueline Karp and the staff at Museum Folkwang for their help with this exhibition.
- Fontainebleau, Barbizon - the relationships between painters and photographers
Memoirs and Letters of the late Thomas Seddon, Artist. By his Brother, (London: James Nisbett, 1858), p.9-10.
Letter from Thomas Seddon (1850).
Barbisson, Wednesday.
My Dear J ,—. . . The forest is now becoming most beautiful with the autumn tints, which are coming very rapidly from the hot sun. I have not had a single wet day since my arrival. We now, as it is full moon, take a walk every evening either in the forest or among the rocks. I wish you were with us. The effects are much more beautiful than during the day; among the rocks and sand especially it is most mysterious. Last night we went to a cavern about a mile and a half off. We thought we would illuminate it; so we cut branches of pine, stuck them all round, and lighted them, and began to brew a bowl of punch by torchlight; but unfortunately we forgot the smoke, and were obliged to retreat to the rocks outside. What with the torches and our outlandish costumes, we looked a most awful set of banditti; and being all armed with pikes to climb over the rocks, we were passably picturesque as we sate in a circle round the naming bowl. I must tell you the cause of our jollification. The Government intended to cut down the greater part of the Bas Breau, the oldest part of the forest, and close to the village, and to replant it with young trees. All the trees were marked, and the destruction was to have begun soon ; however, the artists represented that it was invaluable for the landscape painters of France, and authentic news arrived last night that it was to be spared. I have been painting in oil every day, and I hope making a little progress, but it is slow work.—Your affectionate brother,
Thomas Seddon
- Scientific: 19th Century Botany This exhibition is under-development and suggestions are welcome - Works by Henry Fox Talbot, Anna Atkins, John Dillwyn Llewelyn, Charles Hippolyte Aubry, Adolphe Braun along with photomicrographs by Andreas Ritter von Ettingshausen, John William Draper and Adolphe Bertsch.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on photography and 19th century science:
- Roger Fenton - Russia As the number of photographs on Luminous-Lint continues to grow it is possible to create exhibitions on series within the career of a photographer. This newsletter is the first to show how this will appear and so here are four exhibitions on Roger Fenton. As with all exhibitions these will improve over time and as I locate the series he did of the British Royal Family I‘ll include them. If there are people interested in more ambitious long-term projects such as online catalogue raisonné then get in touch.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on Roger Fenton:
- Felice Beato - India and the Indian Mutiny In one of those odd coincidences the Getty Center in Los Angeles is putting up an exhibition Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road (December 7, 2010–April 24, 2011) and I noticed this the other day just after I had prepared these five exhibitions. This will be a "must see" exhibition for those interested in this photographer as it will be the first devoted to his life and work. If I can locate sufficient photographs I will add a further exhibition on his work taken during the Punitive Expedition in Korea (1871).
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on Felice Beato:
Here is next batch of online exhibitions for Luminous-Lint that I would welcome scans for and advice on.
- Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard - Does anybody have a full or partial listing of the publications of Imprimerie photographique Blanquart-Evrard?
- 19th century Herbariums - Does anybody know of a specialist in 19th century botany, photomicrographs of plants, plant hunting expeditions, herbariums, hot houses and botanical gardens?
- Photography and Geology - Geologists, geomorphologists, pedologists, expeditions, rock sections and samples, mineralogy and soil mechanics in the 19th century. Now that is a topic which has been little explored!
- The Acropolis and the monuments of Athens in the 19th century - Scans of photographs, adverts, complete albums or books by George Bridges, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours, Claudius Galen Wheelhouse, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros, Francis Bedford, Francis Frith, Philippos Margaritis, J. Pascal Sebah, P. Moraites, Dmitri Constantine [Dimitris Konstantinou] and many others.
- Jerusalem in the 19th century - Scans of photographs, adverts, complete albums or books by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Maxime Du Camp, Auguste Salzmann, James Graham, Mendel Diness, Robertson & Beato, Francis Frith, George Skene Keith, George Bridges, Louis de Clercq, Captain Charles Wilson [Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem], Félix Bonfils, Tancrède Dumas, P. Bergheim, Edward L. Wilson, and many others.
- Photomicroscopy - Examples of the work of John Benjamin Dancer (1812-1887) and M. Amadio of Throgmorton Street with his miniaturized head of Charles Dickens.
- Carte de visite publisher trade catalogues - There have been questions on the Internet recently about publisher catalogues that show visuals of available back marks. In the Yahoo group "cartes_de_visite-cartes de visite (CDV collectors)" some examples from the library at George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY, USA were put up. The examples included: "Buchanan’s Complete Illustrated Catalogue. Philadelphia (1896)" and "Thos. H. McCollin’s Illustrated Price List of Photographic Supplies. Philadelphia (1882)". Does anybody know of others and where high quality scans are available? I‘ll pass the information on.
- Photography and Art in the 19th century - There are some classic books that explore the relationships between art and photography:
- Van Deren Coke, The Painter and the Photograph from Delacroix to Warhol, (Alberquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1964)
- Peter Galassi, Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography, (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1981)
- William E. Parker, (Ed.), Art and Photography: Forerunners and Influences. Selected Essays by Heinrich Schwartz, (Gibbs M. Smith, Inc, Peregrine Smith Books in association with the Visual Studies Workshop, 1985)
- Aaron Scharf, Art and Photography (Pelican Books, 1974)
To build up a reference set of examples I am interested in your favorite examples.
The online exhibitions on Luminous-lint are never static so if you have better quality scans or a correction let me know.
Join in when you can - sharing makes the world a better place.
Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
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