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Have a VISUAL and FESTIVE HOLIDAY SEASON and a WONDERFUL 2011
Luminous-lint - 5th Anniversary
Five years ago I announced the Luminous-Lint website on the Yahoo PhotoHistory list (message #6471). Carl Mautz had posted the first notice about the existence of Luminous-Lint on Dec 6th on the same list (message #6457).
Luminous-lint started as a personal project so I could learn about photohistory and share what I learnt with others - it has improved in ways I never expected. There have been ups and downs along the way and the direction has flipped more than once but it is only a five-year old child and needs a few more years to mature!
From day one Luminous-Lint has been inclusive of anybody who likes to share for the benefit of the wider community and thousands of you have assisted from around the world.
Here are a few statistics to highlight what we‘ve done together:
- 42,142 images have been added from 2,006 different institutions, galleries, dealers, photographers, estates and private collectors around the world
- 6,357 photographers are included by their 14,291 different names
- 555 online exhibitions are running with an additional 500 exhibitions being prepared
We have collected together vast amounts of previously unpublished material and all of this is part of a larger collaborative project I‘m sure you are going to enjoy.... but that is something to look forward to...
In the last five years I‘ve talked with many of you, emailed many more, shared a drink or two, been welcomed into homes to see private collections, and visited numerous institutions around the world. This has given me the immense pleasure of new friendships and Luminous-Lint has improved in so many ways from your shared knowledge.
Thank you all and let‘s see what we can do together in the next five years.
Best wishes,
Alan
alan@luminous-lint.com
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NEW ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
- Angus McBean - The Christmas Cards
Angus McBean
Love from Angus 81
1981
Christmas card
Pierre Spake Fine Art
This exhibition is suitably festive. Angus McBean (1904-1990) was one of the great theatrical photographers of the London stage with his striking images often having a surreal quality. The Christmas cards that he designed for himself, his mother Cherry and his partner David Ball merit wider recognition.
This exhibition has been prepared by Pierre Spake of Pierre Spake Fine Art (UK) and I am grateful for the opportunity to show this series.
- Tintypes - Exterior views (1860-1900)
This exhibition of American tintypes highlights the differences between the exterior views taken using different processes in the nineteenth century. By looking at the scenes taken using Daguerreotypes and salt prints we clearly see different subjects and approaches and we‘d be interested in your thoughts on the reasons for this. If you have tintype views of the wonders of nature we‘d be fascinated to see them.
Photographs kindly provided by Andrew Daneman from the Andrew Daneman collection of American Tintypes.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions:
- Gertrude Käsebier
Examples of the work of Gertrude Käsebier.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibition:
- Architecture: Missions Héliographiques
Works by Édouard Baldus, Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray and Auguste Mestral.
As this exhibition improves travel itineraries will be added and the photographs arranged in date order. If you are a specialist in the Missions Héliographiques please get in touch - alan@luminous-lint.com
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions:
- John Jabez Mayall - Royalty
The Photographic News, Volume IV, No.104, August 31, 1860, p.215.
Photography At The Palace.—Mr. Mayall has put together, in a "Royal Album," the series of royal photographic portraits made by him from time to time at Buckingham Palace. These exquisite studies from the real life are fourteen in number:— one of the Queen and Prince Consort, one of the Queen and Princess Beatrice, one of the Queen alone, one of the Prince alone, one of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alice, one of the Prince of Wales, one of Princess Alice, one of Prince Alfred, one of the Princesses Helena and Louisa, one of Princess Helena alone, one of Princess Louisa alone, one of Princes Arthur and Leopold, one of Prince Arthur alone, and one of Princess Beatrice; each study reproducing, with a homely truth, far more precious to the historian than any effort of a nattering court artist, the lineaments of the royal race. The Album reflects the highest credit on Mr. Mayall.—Athenaeum.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions:
If you have a scan of the cover for the Royal Album or a list of the portraits included I would be most grateful.
- Pictorialism - American Women Photographers
Examples of works by Alice Boughton, Anne Brigman, Sarah Choate Sears, Eva Watson-Schutze and Gertrude Käsebier.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on Pictorialism:
- Charles Marville
A selection of photographs showing some of the Parisian series of Charles Marville.
- Richard Beard
Richard Beard (1802-1885) was the first British portrait photographer obtaining a license from Daguerre in 1841 for 150 pounds. He established his studio on the roof of the Polytechnic Institution in Regent Street, London and hired staff to take and process the portraits.
An exhibition on the work of Richard Beard and Antoine François Jean Claudet curated by Geoffrey Batchen at the Yale Center for British Art is scheduled to open in October 2011.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions:
- Mathew B. Brady - Brady‘s Daguerrean Gallery
Mathew Brady‘s Studio
[Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the left, facing front, seated]
1850, Sept
Daguerreotype, whole plate, gold toned
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
(DAG no. 509X / cph 3g06777)
Published in "Jenny Lind in New York" in The Musical World, Volume 25, No: 42, Saturday, October 19, 1850, p.671
She also objects to have her likeness exhibited; but this objection is overruled by Mr. Brady, the daguerreotypist, who shared with the sun the honour of having taken it, and on his part objects to be considered a humbug. Our meaning will be understood from the following :—
Mdlle. Jenny Lind, who, in the first place, was averse to having her likeness taken, and, in the second, did not wish to have it exhibited, has permitted Mr. Brady to show it to the public, who have importuned him for the last week, many telling him it was all humbug, and that she did not sit for her likeness at all. On Monday there was a great rush to see it, and all who had seen her pronounced it to be an admirable likeness. It is a beautiful specimen of the perfection of the photogenic art. There were eight likenesses taken in all, and every one differed from the rest, so changeable is the expression of the countenance of the great cantatrice. There were three preserved, of which Mr. Brady has two, and one is in the possession of Jenny Lind herself. The two at Mr. Brady‘s gallery differ very much, one of them being far superior to the other. In looking at those likenesses of Jenny Lind, we saw some exquisite portraits done on ivory, which is a new invention of. Mr. Brady, and exceedingly creditable to him.
- Bisson frères - Mt. Blanc
Louis-Auguste (1814-1876) and Auguste-Rosalie (1826-1900) better known as Bisson frères had been involved in photography since the days of the Daguerreotype and were well known for their reproductions of the works of Rembrandt and Durer before they started taking architectural views of historic monuments. It is perhaps their expeditions to the Alps and Mont Blanc in the early 1860s for which they are best remembered in photo-history as early pioneers of mountain photography.
- Elliott Erwitt: A Survey
Born in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan and then emigrated to the US, via France, with his family in 1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom before experimenting with photography at Los Angeles City College. In 1948, he moved to New York and exchanged janitorial work for film classes at the New School for Social Research.....
Thanks to all the staff at the Stephen Bulger Gallery for their help and patience in preparing this exhibition which coincides with their exhibition "Elliott Erwitt: A Survey" in Toronto (November 13, 2010 – January 15, 2011). All photographs are shown here courtesy of Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos.
- Auguste Salzmann - Jerusalem
A selection of photographs by Auguste Salzmann (1824-1872) of Jerusalem. On completing his tour of Egypt and Jerusalem he returned to France with 150 calotypes and his plates were used to illustrate two volumes on Jerusalem using the Blanquart-Evrard process.
- Robert Rive
These images come from the new biography of nineteenth century photographer Robert Rive by Giovanni Fanelli, with the collaboration of Barbara Mazza, Robert Rive (Firenze: Mauro Pagliai Editore, 2010) [ISBN: 978-88-564-0123-3] This book includes 110 high quality plates some of which include enlargements to highlight specific details. It is particularly interesting to see how the same image was produced in a variety of photographic formats.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on Nineteenth Century Italian Photography:
A special thanks to the private collectors and dealers who are supplying examples for these exhibitions.
- The Acropolis
Francis Wey, "Of the Influence of Heliography upon the Fine Arts", The Photographic Art-Journal, Vol.2, No.2, August, 1851, p.107 [Translated from La Lumière.]
Fifteen months ago M. Le Baron Gros, then Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece, preserved by means of the daguerrreotype a view taken of the Acropolis of Athens. Ruins, sculptured stones, and fragments of every kind were scattered around. On his return to Paris, at the close of a delicate and honorably accomplished mission, M. Le Baron Gros revived the remembrances of his voyage, and observed, with the aid of a magnifying glass, the heaped-up fragments in the first plan of his view of the Acropolis. Suddenly, by means of the powerful glass, he discovered upon a stone an antique and very curious figure, which had till then escaped him. It was a representation of a lion devouring a serpent, engraved in a hollow, and of a remote age, and this unique monument was attributed to an art which flourished about the Egyptian epoch. The microscope has permitted this valuable memorial to come to light, revealed by the daguerreotype, at twenty-one hundred miles from Athens, and to have restored to it proportions easily accessible to study. Thus, this vast mechanism renders faithfully what can be seen, and what the eye cannot distinguish, so well, that, as in nature, the spectator, by approaching more or less near, with the aid of graduated lens, perceives infinite details when the tout ensemble of the pictures no longer furnishes sources of study. It is conceived that heliography, acting on a plain surface, copies the picture and effect with mathematical accuracy. There is in this a valuable resource for obtaining excellent models for the use of engravers; but the very superiority of the result condemns to perish as insufficient every other copy limited to imitation alone, without co-operation of thought, which enhances with a peculiar spirit the representation of the original.
For those of you that appreciate connections in photo-history: In the last Newsletter an exhibition was included that covered Felice Beato - China and the Second Opium War and it was this same Baron Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros who was the French diplomat who negotiated the end of that war following the burning of the Imperial Summer Palace in Peking [Beijing] in 1860.
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?
- Photomicroscopy - Examples of the work of John Benjamin Dancer (1812-1887) and M. Amadio of Throgmorton Street with his miniaturized head of Charles Dickens.
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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or search for Luminous-Lint you‘ll join a community of over 4,000 fellow enthusiasts. I‘m finding it useful for keeping everybody updated about what is happening on Luminous-Lint and in the wider world of photography
generally. To everybody who is participating thanks for all your friendship, knowledge and support.
ADDRESS
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Alan Griffiths
Luminous-Lint
Box 33055
Quinpool RPO
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CANADA
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