| Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 9.2 | April 20, 2015 | | | Home • What‘s New • Photographers • Online Exhibitions
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New online exhibitions for everybody to enjoy
Additional online exhibitions for subscribers
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As you will notice I‘ve started adding Online Exhibitions to fill gaps in Luminous-Lint and these will be used as visual aids to support the writing of the Themes that is proceeding at quite a pace. The Themes on Conceptual Photography, the Bauhaus, Film und Foto (1929) have all been expanded. Film stills have been added from the 1920s and 1930s to examine visual similarities between film and still photographs as this is a topic I'm currently lecturing on. For those interested in the Portrait the section on calotypes/salt prints has been enhanced.
As a thank you to subscribers (and that may well include you!) I am adding extra exhibitions, based on years of my own research, for you to explore. These have all been updated with fresh examples.
Special thanks to David Schorsch, Salvatore Piermarini and Norma I. Quintana for providing online exhibitions. It is also a pleasure to thank the thousands of institutions, estates, galleries, photographers and collectors who have assisted with Luminous-Lint over the years.
All the best, Alan
American Folk Art from the David A. Schorsch collection
Early photographs of American folk paintings constitute a unique archive of works by both recognized and unknown artists, frequently even preserving a visual record of otherwise unknown paintings. A large number of early daguerreotypists practiced this lucrative work at a time when photography afforded Americans their first opportunity to have accurate copies of works of art, especially much desired copies of portraits of family members lost to death or distance. These copy images vary greatly in quality and interest, from mere duplicates to works of art in their own right. Between 1840 and 1860 most were produced by three photographic methods—as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes, each of which produced a single copy. By 1860, negative-based cartes-de-visite, inexpensive and readily available in multiples, effectively wiped out the earlier techniques. Surviving advertisements, broadsides, trade cards, and labels document that photographers from itinerant practitioners to the most famous studios in major cities offered copy work. | 
LL/58929 | 
LL/59048 | 
LL/58935 |
The Haj
[For Subscribers] Early photographs of the Haj are rare and the work of Muhammad Sadiq (1881), Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1885) and H.A. Mirza (ca. 1907) are the best known and included here. A 1916-1917 photograph of 'The Egyptian Mahmal on the train bound for Mecca' which is coming up at the Sotheby's 30th April auction (London, Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History, Lot. 163) along with the Chusseau-Flaviens 'Egypte retour de la Mecque' (ca. 1900-1919) are included.
If you have further examples in your collections I'd be most interested to learn about them. Thanks. | 
LL/46206 | 
LL/58826 | 
LL/35703 |
Staircases
[For Subscribers] The examples for this exhibition have been brought together from over fifty institutions, auction houses, estates, galleries, artists and private collectors to provide a stimulating overview of upward and downward mobility. My favorite is one from the NHRA - Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority of 'Stairway to the Stars.Olney Road W of Cooke Street - 3rd house in - 100 block.Atlantic City Demolition' taken on 5 December 1953 by Volmer of a surviving staircase amidst an ominous landscape. | 
LL/43677 | 
LL/38579 | 
LL/48099 |
Pictures within Pictures
[For Subscribers] How photographers have included photographs within photographs is intriguing. There are daguerreotypes showing calotypes and albumen prints showing daguerreotypes, there are the bedrooms of men with pin-ups tacked to the walls, memorials, missing persons sheets and conceptual art. | 
LL/25767 | 
LL/37289 | 
LL/6364 |
Structural Steel
[For Subscribers] Structural steel and elevators were the key factors that allowed for the construction of the skyscrapers that changed cityscapes forever. Major steel frameworks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Transporter Bridge (pont transbordeur) in Marseille became iconic sites for Modernist photographers. This exhibition brings together significant examples including works from Germaine Krull's Métal series of 1928. | 
LL/38936 | 
LL/28344 | 
LL/6863 |
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Mario Cravo Neto (1947, 20 April - 2009) was born - Brazil, Bahia, Salvador. Contemporary Brazilian sculptor and photographer.
Patrick Dolique (1949, 20 April - ) was born - France, Vincennes. French photographer.
Forman G. Hanna (1881, 21 December - 1950, 20 April) died - US, CA, Los Angeles. American pictorialist photographer.
Tim Hetherington (1970, 5 December - 2011, 20 April) died - Libya, Misrata. British photojournalist and filmmaker who covered wars and the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean for Christian Aid. The film Restrepo (2010) that he made with Sebastian Junger covered the men of Second Platoon, Battle More...
Chris Hondros (1970, 14 March - 2011, 20 April) died - Libya, Misrata. American photojournalist. From 1998 onwards he covered conflicts in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, Liberia and Libya. He was killed in Libya while reporting on the battles of the Arab Spring.
August Sander (1876, 17 November - 1964, 20 April) died. German photographer who spent 40 years creating ‘Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts‘ - a portrait study of all classes of German society. He also did studies of the German landscape and a highly detailed study of the city of Cologne.
Cole Weston (1919 - 2003, 20 April) died - US, CA. American fine art photographer and printer of the works of his father Edward Weston. |
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