| Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 10.7 | July 28, 2016 | | | 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.
This Newsletter uses nineteenth century examples to demonstrate how the searching and indexing systems on Luminous-Lint have been improved. Keep in mind that the same could be done for over 68,000 of the most significant photographs in photohistory.
Luminous-Lint contains a vast range of material from all areas of the world and all periods and styles of photography. Images are just the starting point as it is the many hundreds of Themes that provide the cultural context. Click on the images in this Newsletter to see larger versions.
Thanks to everybody supporting Luminous-Lint as it continues to evolve.
As always send me an email if you have any suggestions or questions.
All the best, Alan (alan@luminous-lint.com)
Improvements to searching |
To assist as the content expands on Luminous-Lint I've added some new ways of searching for
Subscribers.
As you will know if you browse through Luminous-Lint the content is divided up into distinct Themes and each of these is made up of Fragments that include the videos, images and texts you need to better understand a topic.
When choosing the "Connections" option on the Search Box drop-down menu the Fragments are now shown so you can move quickly to the required topic. This saves you time and reveals the wealth of well-illustrated content that is now available.
Now for an example: looking for "Trees" - the results show you the Themes, Fragments, Online Exhibitions, and Visual Indexes that are available on Luminous-Lint. If this screenshot is a bit small click on it to see a larger version - the links aren‘t active in these screenshots.
Screenshot: Searching for "Trees" on Luminous-Lint
Going deeper through visual indexes |
If you scroll through the different Visual Indexes on "Trees" you‘ll see that one of them is on "Gustave Le Gray: Trees".
Screenshot: Visual Indexes for "Gustave Le Gray"
If you click on the "Gustave Le Gray: Trees" link you will be taken to the first image in the Visual Index and if you are a Subscriber you will see that there is a "Contextualize" link and this is where the powerful connectivity tools within Luminous-Lint become important.
Screenshot: The caption for Gustave Le Gray, "Study of Trees and Pathways", 1849 (J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.XM.637.6)
Once you select the "Contextualize" link the screen will refresh. It looks the same but scroll down and you be offered a host of highly related and ordered Themes, Fragments and Visual Indexes. As the content comes from thousands of distinct collections this is a unique way of researching thousands of diverse themes as each image becomes a starting point for a well documented visual journey.
Screenshot: The context for understanding the 1849 Gustave Le Gray photograph "Study of Trees and Pathways" (J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.XM.637.6)
The photographs shown in the Visual Indexes are ordered to provide coherent stories and these can be used to provide inter-connected Wall Panels.
Showing all photographs by a single photographer |
Scrolling through multiple pages can be a bit of a pain if there are hundreds of photographs for a single photographer - for example there are 247 photographs for Julia Margaret Cameron and 232 for William Henry Fox Talbot. So subscribers have the additional option to see "All photographs".
Screenshot: The photographs of Gustave Le Gray
This is a quick way to see an overview of a photographer's work.
Showing the collections for a single photographer |
Google image search can be a wonderful tool for enthusiasts but visual websites such as Pinterest and blogs have polluted the results to such a level that it can be difficult to locate photographs with captions or any details on ownership.
Screenshot: Collections that include photographs by Gustave Le Gray
In an ideal world there would be an online catalogue raisonné with every image by every photographer but that isn't going to happen for a while so at the moment Luminous-Lint is the best there is.
If you would like to collaborate on preparing indexes for a photographer then send me an email - alan@luminous-lint.com.
New indexes to all the Fragments |
A new feature for Subscribers is the ability to see indexes for all the thousands of fragments used on Luminous-Lint.
Mode 1 - Alphabetical index to fragment names
The first index is a listing on a single screen of all the Fragments currently available - you can use the search feature of your browser to quickly find a specific topic or the Connections Search option. You can access either the wall panels or the full Fragment details with checklists of the images shown from this index.
Screenshot: Fragment index
Mode 2 - Photographers and the fragments that explain their significance
It can be useful to see the fragments for a single photographer and if you scroll down the Alphabetical index, described above, at the end you‘ll see the Photographer fragment index.
Screenshot: Photographer fragment index
These new indexes all provide improved ways of navigating through Luminous-Lint and I'm sure you will find them useful.
Researchers and students - Do you need to subscribe? |
If you research, or study, at an educational institution please check if your organisation has a subscription so you can gain access to the premium content on Luminous-Lint. Talk to your course supervisor or the librarian at your institution to see if Luminous-Lint is available.
Individual subscriptions are also available.
Subscriptions are available to access the over 1,000 Themes on Luminous-Lint, powerful Visual Indexes, tools to contextualize single images and some of the more detailed parts of the website. Luminous-Lint is an evolving resource where all parts are enhanced and added to every day.
Details about subscriptions
Thanks to all those subscribing to, and supporting, Luminous-Lint as it continues to improve.
Requests for further information - and still looking for ... |
Hand-coloured landscapes
Before colour processes were commercially available photographers got around it by hand-colouring and tinting. Early hand coloured daguerreotypes of landscapes don‘t exist (if I‘m incorrect on this please let me know), and coloured salt prints or large albumen prints of landscapes are rare. The exception to this may be stereoviews and lantern slides where there are quite a number. If you have, or know of any, hand-coloured landscape photographs I‘d be most interested. | 
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Jerry Burchfield (1947, 28 July - 2009, 11 September) was born - US, IL, Chicago. Contemporary American photographer creating lumen prints.
Eleanor Parke Custis (1897, 28 July - 1983, 23 July) was born - US, DC, Washington.
Marcel Duchamp (1887, 28 July - 1968, 2 October) was born - France, Haute-Normandie, Blainville-Crevon Seine-Maritime. French avant-garde artist associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movement. Influential not only as an innovative artist but as a person who could influence trends by profound insights into the relationships between art and marketing.
Chris Steele-Perkins (1947, 28 July - ) was born - Burma, Rangoon. English contemporary photojournalist, documentary photographer and member of Magnum.
Rob Wright (1906, 28 July - 1976, 28 October) was born - Fiji, Sigatoka. Well known photographer and newspaper columnist in Fiji where he was a Public Relations Photographer and Officer with the Fiji Colonial Government. He accompanied Royal visits and recorded the everyday life of Fiji with many of his photographs More... |
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