| Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 5.3 | May 15, 2011 | | | Home • What‘s New • Photographers • Online Exhibitions
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Library • Contact us Welcome to the latest Luminous-Lint Newsletter and this one is a little different as it concentrates on Visual Indexes which are powerful ways of exploring photohistory. This is a first attempt and they will take a bit of time to mature.
Seemingly things have been quiet on Luminous-Lint over the last month but that is an illusion as regular visitors will have noticed. I‘ve been pondering how images can be linked together into meaningful groups. Using fixed tags is not sufficiently flexible and so I‘ve come up with
a rather more fluid system of Visual Indexes that will change and allow photographs to be connected to each other using geography, photographic processes or any other visual or conceptual linkage we come up with in the future.
The examples below show how this becomes a useful research tool that we can build on by using images from the over 2,000 organisations and private collections on Luminous-Lint.
EXAMPLE: Spirals
Visual similarities and patterns throughout the history of photography can be explored in novel ways and there are many surprises to be found.
EXAMPLE: The Forum Romanum - Rome
In the auction catalogue for the upcoming Bassenge auction there is in Lot 4027 a photograph by Tommaso Cuccioni showing the Forum Romanum and the notes mention that the trees on the Via Sacra were planted in 1855. Using Visual Indexes we can see sequences of photographs that show the growth of the trees and this will assist in refining the dates photographs were taken.
EXAMPLE: Visual indexes by technique
There are many ways of exploring including key Techniques and common ones include...
EXAMPLE: Textiles and photography
These examples of photographs with fabric each take us to clusters of photographs related to textiles.
EXAMPLE: Portraits of photographers
On Luminous-lint there are large numbers of portraits of photographers, including 116 for Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre alone, Visual Indexes bring these portraits together for the first time.
EXAMPLE: Visual indexes by geography
Here you can explore photographs taken at specific locations. The benefit of this approach is that you can see multiple photographs of the same location revealing different stylistic approaches.
Using these you can go down to the level of cities and in some cases individual buildings.
EXAMPLE: Visual connections
Here any photograph is a starting point for a visual Odyssey for those with better vision than sheep-stroking Polyphemus.
Here is next batch of online exhibitions for Luminous-Lint that I would welcome scans for and advice on.
- William Henry Fox Talbot - The Ladder - ARE YOU A PHOTOMONTAGIST? I‘ve been a little delayed but will shortly be sending out a JPG of the photograph below to a group of photomontagists so they can incorporate it into a new artistic work for an online exhibition on Luminous-lint and possibly real world exhibitions. If you are interested in flexing your artistic muscles and participating get in touch. alan@luminous-lint.com
- Costume and Fashion photography - In 2011 there will be between five and ten online exhibitions added to Luminous-lint covering the history of costume and fashion photography including:
- Nineteenth century clothing including non-photographic fashion plates
- Key photographers including Cecil Beaton, Horst, and Norman Parkinson
- Hollywood and fashion - the promotion of clothing through the Waldman Bureau
If there are estates and curators who would like to be involved or have expertise to share let me know.
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 4,200 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
Want your invitations, catalogs, books and prints to arrive at my place? Well check your address book:
Alan Griffiths
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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.
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Nigel Henderson (1917, 1 April - 1985, 15 May) died - England, Essex, Clacton-on-Sea, Thorpe-le-Soken. British photographer.
Étienne Jules Marey (1830, 5 March - 1904, 15 May) died - France, Paris. French experimental photographer and inventor. He was fascinated by the study of movement (he used the term ‘chronophotographie‘) in animals and man and his photographic inventions were a continual quest to improve his More... |
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