| Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 7.3 | July 1, 2013 | | | Home • What‘s New • Photographers • Online Exhibitions
Contents • Alphabetical • Styles and movements • Articles
Visual Indexes • Galleries & Dealers • Timelines • Techniques
Library • Contact us Welcome to another Luminous-Lint Newsletter.
Biographies for Pictorialists... |
Thanks to the intellectual generosity of Christian Peterson over 240 detailed biographies of pictorialists have been added to Luminous-Lint. These biographies are
based upon his book Pictorial Photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Christian A. Peterson: Privately printed, 2012) which was published in a limited edition of only 50 copies.
Having all these biographies available on Luminous-lint will be a tremendous help to us all. Thank you Christian.
List of biographies of Pictorialists added
SHARING MAKES THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.
Crowdfunding and all that... |
Well the crowdfunding was interesting...
For a month I used Kickstarter to try and raise funds to promote photohistory. Many thanks to all of you who
pledged support for Luminous-Lint and for all your warm emails, notes and telephone calls as the fundraising period rolled along. You are a great community of people. With Kickstarter it is all or nothing and as the target was not reached no funds were raised and that puts us in a bit of a predicament. All of you who receive this Newsletter appreciate the significance of Luminous-Lint in bringing together material from thousands of collections. To run Luminous-Lint, and continue to improve it, requires financial support and so suggestions are most welcome.
The next phase... camera obscuras, the portrait, art and a thousand other topics... |
I'll outline my thinking on the steps Luminous-Lint is going through.
- The raw evidence for photohistory is being collected - here the images and source materials are brought together to create a pool of information. This information has been organized into Online Exhibitions that mimic gallery exhibitions but with the important difference that they are continually improved. The Online Exhibitions may have an introductory text but they don't need to and one can be added in as necessary in the future.
- Next the images are cross-linked into Visual Indexes which are similar to subject tags. There is a distinction however as tags normally provide a collection of images and it is not the same as Visual Indexes include ordering so they can be displayed in ways that tell stories.
- Original source texts are the basis of research and so these are collected and organized. At this stage everything is like a vast melting pot of ideas swirling around before structures emerge.
- For each theme bibliographies and reference lists are prepared so you can locate the supporting evidence.
- The Contents pages, Visual Indexes and search tools are improving and they provide pathways through the material. These pathways can be fascinating as they can take one down unexpected routes many of which are not covered, or only tangentially, in the current literature. They provide the raw material for thinking about photohistory in ways that are novel and at times intriguing.
What is next?
Anybody who has been following Luminous-Lint over the years will have noticed that since June 2012 each theme is beginning to mature. At first the Theme pages look naive with a few example images, a bit of text, and maybe a few original sources - islands in a sea of information. Any specialist would look at a page and throw up their hands in despair! I'm okay with this as Luminous-Lint is not like writing a book where everything has to be perfect by the time the publishers' proofs are returned. The goal of Luminous-Lint is longer term and there are over a thousand themes in various states - none is complete and each is improving.
Once the images and original texts are in place introductory texts will be added in - here the arguments and supporting evidence starts to come together with all the footnotes and references. These will be drafts initially and you can help out by pointing out any errors, supplying additional information, or preparing some text to get us started. There are no limitations here on the number of images or videos to include.
So years after Luminous-Lint started the first draft texts are starting to appear on Luminous-Lint to test how it will all come together. These experimental texts are to check how the footnotes and referencing systems will work but they will give you an idea. Hint - click on the red links to get to the theme... clicking on the images will take you into details about the image.
Camera Obscura
Portrait
Art
The Themes are accessible through the Contents page or Alphabetical indexes and are in flux but you will get a sense of the richness of the material. As gaps are discovered in the evidence further Online Exhibitions and Visual Indexes will be added and the texts will go through continual iterations.
I hope you continue to enjoy Luminous-Lint and find it useful.
All the best and thanks for your support, Alan
|
|
Kenneth Josephson (1932, 1 July - ) was born - US, MI, Detroit.
L‚onard Misonne (1870, 1 July - 1943, 14 September) was born - Belgium, Gilly. Belgian pictorialist. An engineer turned painter, pianist and photographer, Misonne was interested in the interplay of light and atmosphere. He worked with the carbon and oil process and photographed the European countryside, producing lyrical and More...
J.B. Silvis (1830, June - 1900, 1 July) died - US, FL, nr. Tallahasse. American railroad photographer of the nineteenth century who had a Photographic Studio on a Union Pacific Railroad car. He moved along the railroad photographing in each community and recording the local scenery. |
| |
|
LuminousLint 
@LuminousLint
