| Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 10.9 | October 26, 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.
In this Newsletter I will explain the numerous benefits of using Luminous-Lint. You might visit the website every now and then but I guarantee you are only seeing a small fraction of what it has to offer. If you are a subscriber, many thanks for your support, if not you should be.
Every week the equivalent of a book is added to Luminous-Lint along with updates to all the themes and visual indexes. Luminous-Lint is an essential resource for those serious about unravelling the threads from the fabric of photohistory. It provides the context for what you already know and opens new doors into different areas. It generates fresh ways of thinking about subjects you thought you knew.
The love of photography is multi-faceted and each of us has our own particular fascinations and desires. Some of us collect photographs and study them whilst others curate exhibitions based upon intensive research. Luminous-Lint has symbiotic relationships with lots of people and institutions so that we all move forward together.
The benefits of Luminous-Lint to individuals - yes that means you! |
Whether you are a novice or an expert of the many interlinked histories of photography Luminous-Lint contains the examples, source materials, insights and guides to further research that will enhance your experiences. You could spend weeks trawling through innumerable blogs, incomplete or inaccurate image listings on the internet to locate material. You could allocate months to finding examples from thousands of distinct museum collections around the world or you could save your sanity by letting Luminous-Lint do it for you.
Luminous-Lint goes deeper into the history of photography and by bringing the finest images together and it provides the connections to improve your understanding.
Collectors
For collectors it provides the examples to put your own collections and research in context. Based on the results of over 12 years of preparation and the input of over 3000 people it has unparalleled depth. It highlights areas and images that would enhance your collection.
Photohistorians
To understand the broad range of a subject or the minutiae of a PhD a grasp of the overall framework is essential but Luminous-Lint goes far beyond that. It shows the photographs and images from private collections that are difficult, if not impossible, to access. It includes the supporting materials you may be seeking as it is the only place on the Internet many of these images are shown. Luminous-Lint is for those who need to go deeper.
Photographers
To do anything novel in photography requires an understanding of the foundations of the subject. This is partly for pleasure but by building a context for your own work you will find different approaches and better appreciate the trends that have brought your own artistic practice to where it is.
So you collect, research or take photographs of clouds?
For almost any subject that has been photographed Luminous-Lint includes the seminal images along with who took them. With clouds it could be Mitch Dobrowner, Denis Farley, Gustave Le Gray, Charles Marville, Carlo Baldassare Simelli, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Henry Stuart Wortley and a host of others. Luminous-Lint contextualizes your interests and tells you where to see the finest examples. It encourages you to look deeper and search wider. | 
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The benefits of Luminous-Lint to Educational organizations |
Luminous-Lint is a resource that any decent photography department should have online access to for both staff and students. To put it simply it is an essential research tool that saves time and deepens learning. There is no single book on photohistory that addresses the issues covered on Luminous-Lint in as much detail and with the finest examples from around the world. A decent book may include a few hundred examples where as Luminous-Lint uses over 69,000 highly linked images from all periods.
Your students need to learn about daguerreotypes (over 2000 examples), carte de visite (over 3000 examples) or cabinet cards (over 1500 examples). Luminous-Lint includes examples of almost every technique or process from the camera obscura to digital processing.
The texts are enhanced with images, footnotes, links, videos and reading lists.
Seeing a few examples of Pictorialism, Modernism or Abstraction in a book can not get over the complexities of what was happening in different areas of the world but there are pages on Luminous-Lint that reveal the range of images produced.
Textiles and photography
Locating examples that support educational courses is easier because of the Internet but finding ones that are well sourced can be difficult. Luminous-Lint brings together related material that support cources from the applied arts through to hard core photohistory and theoretical approaches. If your students are not enthused and enriched with this material they are probably studying the wrong course! | 
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Luminous-Lint has been built to help educate people and if you are giving a course on photohistory and would like to collaborate get in touch as I will be able to assist with course outlines, online exhibitions and the resources to meet specified educational outcomes.
The benefits of Luminous-Lint to Museums and Art galleries |
Curators have many pressures with enquiries, research and exhibition planning and so resources that assist in saving time and improving research are of immense benefit.
Luminous-Lint addresses over 1200 distinct histories of photography, has over 700 online exhibitions and many thousands of visual indexes covering almost any topic that you are researching or planning an exhibition for.
One way curators can use Luminous-Lint is as a powerful way of testing ideas for exhibitions at an early stage. Even if the intention is to use only examples from the collections of a single institution Luminous-Lint can provide a global context from thousands of public and private collections that aren‘t available elsewhere. It is possible to bring up examples, checklists, the context and reading lists related to your topics of interest in seconds. This will help to visualize exhibition structure, potential gaps and where to locate additional content. The depth of the material, the original sources and accompanying analysis is a powerful combination.
Glassware as an idea generator
If you are planning an exhibition considering the widest possible collection of related images is essential and Luminous-Lint assists with that. It provides historical overviews, and much more, for almost any topic. As each image has full details down to the ownership and accession numbers it assists in creative planning at all stages. The texts and reading lists that accompany the images provide supporting ideas for wall panels and educational guides that can be repurposed as necessary.
Many thousands of visual indexes and online exhibitions are available and they are being improved daily. | 
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For more sophisticated institutions Luminous-Lint offers QRcodes and other ways of accessing content that can be linked to interactive panels and public displays. It extends the walls of physical institutions by bringing virtual collections into galleries to clarify, compare and enhance contextual understanding.
The benefits of Luminous-Lint to Galleries and Dealers |
The relationships between the commercial side of photography and the institutional and collecting world are rarely discussed. Galleries and dealers need institutional and private collectors and in turn they need photographs so it is a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Luminous-Lint uses images to construct themes and visual indexes - photographs are the bedrock of photohistory and so I‘m grateful to the many galleries and dealers that have provided scans. Each image on Luminous-Lint is credited to the provider and therefore the indexes to galleries and dealers act as a continual link promoting their activities and I know many have benefited from this.
The finest galleries and dealers subscribe to Luminous-Lint in part to support the project but it is also an essential tool to contextualize the photographs they hold.
Luminous-Lint is the information resource serious collectors rely on.
Galleries and dealers
Luminous-Lint preserves the ephemera and the digital e-vites from galleries around the world as the exhibitions they host and the gallerists involved are an essential part of how photography has evolved. Here a selection of ephemera relating to the significant Julian Levy Gallery (1931-1949) in New York is shown. Note that the material comes from diverse sources and it is only available as a single entity through Luminous-Lint.
Note: As an aside I‘m always interested in photographs of the exteriors and interiors of photographic galleries, plans, portraits of gallerists and novel designs for exhibitions on photography. | 
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The benefits of Luminous-Lint to Auction houses |
Photography auctions are seasonal and the build up to a sale is pressured. Luminous-Lint saves preparation time - it is as simple as that.
Historically significant auctions of photography
Documentation of the auctions themselves becomes a part of the history of photography and it is therefore included on Luminous-Lint. | 
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Subscriptions are available to access 1200 Themes on Luminous-Lint, powerful Visual Indexes, tools to contextualize single images, reading lists, specialized indexes 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. Your support is necessary for this unique project to flourish.
Details about subscriptions
Thanks to all those subscribing to, and supporting, Luminous-Lint as it continues to improve.
All the best, Alan
p.s. A little additional note here to especially thank those generous folks who bought a couple of subscriptions to support the project - much appreciated. |
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Comte Frédéric Flachéron (1813, 26 October - 1883, 28 June) was born - France, Lyon. Engraver, photographer and calotypist who was a member of the "Roman Photographic School" also called the "Circolo del Caffé Greco" because of the place they frequented.
Milton Montenegro (1954, 26 October - ) was born. Brazilian photographer.
David Armstrong (1954, 24 May - 2014, 26 October) died - US, CA, Los Angeles. In 2002 his work was published by Scalo in a book called ‘All Day Every Day‘.
John Lawrence William FFrench-Mullen (1868, 24 March - 1951, 26 October) died.
Thurston Hopkins (1913, 16 April - 2014, 26 October) died. British photojournalist particularly noted for his work with ‘Picture Post‘ in the 1950s. |
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