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A fissure on the massive A53A iceberg
2008, 1 March
ASAR - Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
ESA - European Space Agency
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Luminous-Lint - The next phase... |
Luminous-Lint continues to evolve. Join in the next phase of its development.
Luminous-Lint is organised into over 1000 themes and some of these are accessible through the Contents page and the Alphabetical indexes.
From today each theme will start to include additional images, original sources, readings lists and explanatory texts.
Initially the content will be uneven so join in where you have knowledge to share. I would like to fix errors quickly as we are getting tens of thousands of page views a day and around 10 million pages a year. Scroll through a few themes to get a sense of the evolving content:
The geographical themes will require considerable work so now is the time for all you regional specialists to start sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for all your help, Alan.
Biographies of Calotypists added to Luminous-Lint |
Special thanks to Roger Taylor and Larry J. Schaaf for access to their extensive scholarship on Calotypists which has allowed approximately 500 biographies to be added to Luminous-Lint. We will add in examples of photographs and be cross-linking the content as soon as possible. Thanks also to Malcolm Daniel, Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for his assistance in making this research available for the benefit of the community.
Listing of the calotypists added or updated
NEW ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
- Cyanotypes of Florence, Italy
Cyanotypes are rarely found in Italy. Cyanotype views are even rarer, while twelve topographical cyanotypes in a studio album format are virtually unknown, at least in my experience as a collector. Unfortunately, the studio which produced these images is not indicated, though the maker would appear to be a professional photographer who had worked in Florence. He used more than one lens, and he had access to privileged viewpoints, which would not have been available to amateurs or visiting foreigners. The subjects reflect the typical itinerary of the ‘grand tour’ souvenir album of the city, and they were probably derived from glass plates made at an earlier date, probably the early 1880s. The positioning of the camera and the absence of shadows suggests that each view was taken at the most appropriate time of the day, i.e., they are the result of a sustained and costly effort to capture the moment when each subject could be photographed to its best advantage. If albums such as this were intended as a commercial enterprise, however, we can reasonably conclude that the attempt was not a commercial success.
[Courtesy of Michael G. Jacob]
- Ross Verlag: Publisher of real photographic postcards
Between 1924 and 1944 the Berlin based publishing house, Ross Verlag, produced an estimated 40 000 real photo and photogravure postcards of actors
from Europe and the US but particularly Germany. The company, which grew out of postcard publishers Film-Sterne and Roto-Phot, was established by Heinrich Ross (1870 -1957) in 1919. It used a design taken from the Film-Sterne cards that would become a standard used by other companies including Photochemie and Iris Verlag. The cards were typically printed on cream stock, more often than not in portrait format with the image taking up four fifths of the card, the lower fifth given to the actor’s name and supplementary information such as film studio logos. In the early series of Ross cards the Film-Sterne logo of a horse was used. Most of the images published were studio portraits though there were also film stills and series dedicated to the stars at home. Ross also published real photo cigarette cards.
[Courtesy of John Toohey]
- Picturing Disability
Midget, feeble-minded, crippled, lame, and insane: these terms and the historical photographs that accompany them may seem shocking to present-day audiences. A young woman with no arms wears a revealing dress and smiles for the camera as she holds a tea cup with her toes; a man holds up two prosthetic legs while his own legs are bared to the knees to show his missing feet. The photos were used as promotional material for circus sideshows, charity drives, and art galleries. They were found on begging cards and in family albums. In their book Picturing Disability, Bogdan and his collaborators gather over 200 historical photographs showing how people with disabilities have been presented and exploring the contexts in which they were photographed.
[Courtesy of Robert Bogdan]
- Camera Obscuras - The Jack and Beverly Wilgus Collection
Go into a very dark room on a bright day. Make a small hole in a window cover and look at the opposite wall. What do you see? Magic! There in full color and movement will be the world outside the window — upside down! This magic is explained by a simple law of the physical world. Light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected from a bright subject pass through a small hole in thin material they do not scatter but cross and reform as an upside down image on a flat surface held parallel to the hole. This law of optics was known in ancient times.
[Courtesy of Jack and Beverly Wilgus)
- Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders (1968)
The 1968 book The Bikeriders featured photographs by Danny Lyon, one of the most important documentary photographers and filmmakers to come of age in the 1960s, which chronicle the activities of the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club from 1963 to 1967. Lyon became a member of the Outlaws and documented the daily lives of its members from the seat of his Triumph motorcycle, equipped with a Nikon, a Rolleiflex and a seven-pound portable tape recorder. In 1968, his photographs were published in the landmark book, The Bikeriders, which not only launched his career, but also introduced motorcycle counterculture to mainstream America, paving the way for the film Easy Rider. The book was so influential that it was republished twice, firstly in 1998 and again in 2003.
[Courtesy Etherton Gallery]
- Francis Bedford: Tour in the East (1862)
The Royal Collection in the UK includes The Prince of Wales‘s diary which contains insights into his 1862 Tour.
4 March 1862
"We then proceeded on the dromedaries (not at all an unpleasant mode of conveyance) to the celebrated Pyramids of Ghizeh - They quite exceeded my expectations, & are certainly wonderful mementoes of our forefathers. We visited the Sphinx just before sunset, which is also very curious and interesting. We had a charming little encampment just below the Pyramids where we slept for the night";
13 March 1862
"....The ruins of Philae are beautiful and most interesting and Mr.Bedford the photographer, who came from England with me and our party took some very good views...."
14 March 1862
"....Mr. Bedford (the photographer who accompanied us from England) took some very successful views of the temple (at Edfoo)".
21 April 1862
".... We lunched under a figtree at 12 o‘clock on the site of where once the city of Capernaum is said to have stood, + Mr. Bedford photographed us ‘en groupe‘."
4 May 1862
"At about 10 we left our camp to lionize thoroughly the fine temple (at Baalbec) + we were much pleased with what we saw. We remained about two hours going over it; Mr. Bedford took some excellent views of it, which will be a great addition to his collection of photographs...."
Bill Jay "Royal Command - Francis Bedford‘s photographs of the educational tour of the Middle East by the Prince of Wales, 1862"
- Paintings and prints based on photographs or vice versa
A collection of examples showing the relationships bewtween painting and photography.
- Painting in Photography. Strategies of Appropriation
This online exhibition was added to coincide with the exhibition "Painting in Photography - Strategies of Appropriation", running from 27 June to 23 September 2012 at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Photographic reproductions of works on paper and canvas
How photography in the nineteenth century was used to reproduce art for a wider audience.
- Themes - Where there are gaps in content or I have specific factual questions I‘ll post them on the Theme pages. If you have content to share or know where there might be useful material let me know.
- 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.
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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| Larry Burrows (1926, 20 May - 1971, 10 February) died - South Vietnam, Langvie. War photographer - particularly remembered for his terrifying images of the Vietnam War. He was killed in Vietnam while photographing the war there for Time/Life. |
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