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NASA
The sun unleashed an M4.7 class flare at 8:32 EDT on May 9, 2012 as captured here by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
2012, 9 May
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The integration of the bibliographies on photo-history is proceeding well and photobooks are being added along with book covers and example pages. Thanks to all those assisting.
NEW ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
- Children in 19th Century Photography
This is a part of a series of online exhibitions on Children:
Children in 19th Century Photography
Children in Pictorialism
Children in Humanistic Photography
- Children in Pictorialism
An examination of how children were portrayed in Pictorialist photography.
- Children in Humanistic Photography
How children were shown in the humanistic photography of the 20th century.
- Photobooks: Reference Books on Photobooks
As the variety of photobooks has expanded so has the number of reference works providing a selection of them and background to them. These books vary in quality but they each provide insights into books that few of us will ever see. They are recommended for the shelves of anybody with an interest in photo-history.
- Smoking, cigarettes and cigars
Tobacco! which from east to west,
Cheers the tar‘s labour or the Turkman‘s rest;
Which on the Moslem‘s ottoman divides
His hours, and rivals opium and his brides;
Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand,
Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand:
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe,
When tipp‘d with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;
Like other charmers wooing the caress,
More dazzlingly when daring in full dress;
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties—Give me a cigar!
Lord Byron, The Island, Canto II, Stanza 19.
Krijn van Noordwijk
Zon
Color print
Provided by the artist - Krijn van Noordwijk
- Alcohol
A temperance song...
The Price of Drink
"Five cents a glass!"
Does anyone think that that is really the price of a drink?
The price of a drink?
Let him decide who has lost his courage and lost his pride,
His honor and virtue, the wreath of fame
All high endeavor and noble name.
For these are the treasures thrown away
As the price of a drink from day to day.
"Five cents a glass!"
Does anyone think that that is really the price of a drink?
"Five cents a glass!" How Satan laughed,
as over the bar the young man quaffed
The fiery liquor, for the demon knew
The terrible work that drink would do,
And ere the morning the victim lay
With his life blood ebbing swiftly away
And that was the price he paid, alas!
For the pleasure of taking a social glass.
"Five cents a glass!"
Does anyone think that that is really the price of a drink?
The price of a drink! If you want to know
What some are willing to pay for it, go
To that wretched tenement over there
With dingy windows and broken stair,
Where foul disease like a vampire crawls
With outstretched wings on the mouldy walls,
Where poverty dwells with her hungry brood,
All wild-eyed as demons for lack of food,
Where shame in a corner crouches low
Where violence deals its cruel blow
And innocent ones are kicked and cursed
To pay the price of this dreadful thirst.
"Five cents a glass!" "Five cents a glass!"
Does anyone think that that is really the price of a drink?
That that is really the price of a drink?
- Banner girls and banner ladies
Additional examples of banner girls and ladies are requested to make this section as complete as possible.
I would like to hear from anybody who has come across contemporary accounts of banner ladies in newspaper reports or diaries.
- Native Americans 1840-1920
This exhibition includes many of the classic photographs by Edward S. Curtis, Humphrey Lloyd Hime, Timothy H. O‘Sullivan, Alexander Gardner , Ben Wittick, De Lancey W. Gill, William Henry Jackson, Carl Moon, Frank Rinehart and numerous others. It also includes rarer Daguerreotypes along with photographs of the Indian delegations.
Whilst this is interesting it is only a partial story as it reflects how Native Americans were recorded by outsiders rather than themselves. Further exhibitions will address these issues.
- Cliché verre
Cliché-verre [Fr.] literally translated means "glass picture" and is a technique that combines art and photography and was used mainly by French artists including Jean Baptiste Corot, Jean François Millet, and Charles François Daubigny. It was normally done by using a smoking candle to coat a glass plate with soot. The desired picture was then drawn with a sharp instrument directly into the blackened surface and the resulting plate was used as a photographic negative and contact printed. Although mainly used in the 1860s the cliché verre technique has also be used by György Kepes and Abelardo Morell.
Related exhibitions on the "prehistory" of photography...
Drawing and optical devices
Camera Obscura
Camera Lucida
Cliché verre
Silhouettes
Physionotrace
- The Trashcam Project
In 2012 Mirko Derpmann and Christoph Blaschke of the German advertising and marketing agency Scholz & Friends of Berlin decided to experiment with using rubbish dumpsters as pinhole cameras. Working with the Hamburg Sanitation Department they spent five days visiting locations selected in conjunction with garbage collectors. A hole was drilled in a dumpster and large sheets of light sensitive photographic paper from a 30m roll were used. The Trashcam series of pinhole photographs continue the earlier tradition of Justin Quinnell and his Wheelie Bin camera.
- Documentary: 20th Century The FSA (Farm Security Administration)
The PhotoHistory group on Yahoo had a recent posting (6 June 2012) on the collection of FSA - Farm Security Administration prints held at New York Public Library. Roy Stryker had the foresight to send boxes of over 41,000 prints to the library and over 1000 of these are not included in the extensive collections at the Library of Congress .
This new online source has prompted me to update an existing online exhibition on Luminous-lint and expand the examples.
- Maps, cartography and photography I‘m interested in examples of maps that include photographs and any exhibition that has examined this subject. The example below uses geo-tagged photographs from social media to examine popular localities.
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David Crandall, Lars Backstrom, Daniel Huttenlocher and Jon Kleinberg
Representative images for the top landmark in each of the top 20 North American cities. All parts of the figure, including the representative images, textual labels, and even the map itself were produced automatically from our corpus of geo-tagged photos.
2009
Computer image, with added photos
Cornell University, Department of Computer Science
LL/48439
David Crandall, Lars Backstrom, Daniel Huttenlocher and Jon Kleinberg, "Mapping the World’s Photos" WWW 2009, April 20–24, 2009, Madrid, Spain. ACM 978-1-60558-487-4/09/04.
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~dph/papers/photomap-www09.pdf
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- Charitable causes and photography - I‘m seeking photographs in any format that were used to raise money for charitable causes such as abolition, famine and flood relief, war injuries, homelessness, leper colonies, asylums and hospitals. For the kind of photographs see Charitable causes and scroll down.
- F64 - As a continuation of the series of exhibition on Styles and movements I would like to do an exhibition on F64. Can anybody assist with this who understands the rights and has possibly already curated an exhibition in this area?
- Bauhaus / New Bauhaus / Art Institute of Chicago - I‘d welcome suggestions for a curator who might be able to assist with an online exhibition on the Bauhaus or the New Bauhaus (Chicago).
- Portraits of photographers - We now always searching for portraits of photographers.
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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To get a wider perspective on the topics covered on Luminous-Lint the following links will help. |
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Thomas Höpker (1936, 10 June - ) was born - Germany, Munich. German photojournalist.
Richard Margolis (1943, 10 June - ) was born - US, OH, Lorain.
Richard Daintree (1832 - 1878, 10 June) died. English geologist and photographer - he published Sun Pictures of Victoria (1858-59). He continued to take landscape pictures of the areas he worked in and surveyed.
Sigmar Polke (1941, 13 February - 2010, 10 June) died - Germany, Cologne. German painter and photographer who traveled widely in the 1970s with a camera photographing the soft underbelly of society - here are the drinking bars of São Paolo in Brazil and dog fights in Afghanistan. The resulting images are contorted, More... |
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