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Photography, Popular Culture and stuff... | Photography has been entangled with popular culture since its introduction and on Luminous-Lint each thread is explored to create its own well-illustrated history. From humorous illustrations depicting voyeuristic daguerreotypists right through to contemporary comic books on Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson the material is brought together and organized. How photographs have been used to illustrate the poems of Longfellow and Pablo Neruda are analyzed along with novels by Simenon accompanied by the photographs of Germaine Krull. Sheet music and songs related to photography are collected along with bad poetry. Photographs have been added to furniture, jewelry, sewing boxes, coffee mugs and mouse pads and each of these needs to be analyzed. Fabrics have incorporated photographs such as cyanotypes and textiles now include retro images from, or related to, photography.
Popular culture: Photo-related fabrics for clothing and soft furnishings There is a long tradition of attaching photographs to clothing and as fabric printing techniques have evolved along with an increasing interest in retro fashion so textiles drawing on photographic themes have become popular. On Luminous-Lint examples of the fabrics, and the clothing and soft furnishings they are incorporated into, are included. Here textiles designed or marketed by Amy Adams, Michael Miller, JoAnn, Dayglow, Suomiifabrics and others are used to illustrate changing fashion trends.
Examples from around the world and from all periods are always welcome and thanks to those who have brought these to my attention. | LL/75847 | LL/75852 | LL/75854 |
Dayglow Vintage (label, Singapore), 2017 (or earlier), "Smile for the camera [Polaroid] printed dress",
Dress, msvintage.sg, LL/75853
Popular culture: Humour Everybody likes a good joke and since the Daguerreian era caricaturists and cartoonists such as James Gillray, George Cruikshank and most notably Honoré Daumier have created humourous images of incompetent photographers and confused sitters.
Contemporary cartoons by Chas Adams, Nate Fakes and a host of others continue this tradition. These are included on Luminous-Lint to seek out issues that extend through time along with recent developments such as Instagram, selfie-sticks and self-obsession. | LL/75281 | LL/65644 | LL/61906 |
Popular culture: Literature and bad poetry Photography has been used to illustrate the plays of William Shakespeare, the poems of William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sir Walter Scott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Pablo Neruda, as well as the writings of H.G. Wells, George Simenon and Anaïs Nin.
Besides the high points there are many examples of appalling photo-related poetry such as this marketing piece for the daguerreotype gallery of Marcus Aurelius Root in Philadelphia.
Sweet child, that angel face must fade,
As years shall come and go.
For time doth ever mar the fair
And bright of all below.
But thy fond mother's jealous care
Hath robbed the yawning tomb,
And by the might of art, hath fixed
For e'er thy youthful bloom.
Within her sacred shrine there hangs
In all its infant grace,
On Root's unequaled, perfect plate,
Her darling's glorious face.
Then, mother of the blooming child,
Trust not the fleeting hours,
But, as this mother did by hers,
Do thou at once by yours.
Then, should the sudden dart of death
Your loved one call away,
You'd bless the hint by which you had
The picture done to day,
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Popular culture: Songs and sheet music Sheet music often had title pages illustrated with decorative designs that reflected the content. Music such as Fuller's Daguerreotype Polka (1850) and songs such as My Mother's Old Daguerreotype (1899, lyrics by Herbert Lynn, music by Grace Walker) remind us of a different era.
This is a continuing tradition and songs such as Kodachrome by Paul Simon, People Take Pictures of Each Other by The Kinks and Red Light by Siouxsie and the Banshees all come to mind. | LL/67912 | LL/61344 | LL/69737 |
Popular culture: Comic books New trends are emerging all the time from Camera Comics (1944-1946) through to the sophisticated comic books on the history of the Photobooth (2014) by Meags Fitzgerald and biographical works on individual photographers.
In 2016 a comic book, entitled Cartier-Bresson, Allemagne 1945, authored by Morvan and illustrated by Savoia, was published on Henri-Cartier-Bresson and there are others on Robert Capa and Steve McCurry. | LL/55129 | LL/68020 | LL/68052 |
Book cover for Savoia (artist) & Morvan (author), 2016, Cartier-Bresson, Allemagne 1945, Magnum Photos, vol. 2, (Dupuis),
2016
LL/68020
This Newsletter only includes a few examples of the ways photography has seeped into popular and material culture over the last 175 years.
The many Visual Indexes and Themes on Luminous-Lint provide different ways of keeping up with trends and if a drink would assist in following these - there is a solution for that....
Unidentified designer (Mod Retro Vintage Kitchen, ModCloth.com), "Insta-dram Flask", 2017 (or earlier),
LL/75882
Recently updated Luminous-Lint Themes | For Subscribers over the last month there have been enhancements to the following Themes and better quality images are available:
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Sally Mann (1951, 1 May - ) was born - US, VA, Lexington. American portrait and landscape photographer. Marius Maure (1871, 1 May - 1941) was born - Algeria, Biskra. His father, Auguste Maure, was a military photographer. Marius owned a studio "Photographie Saharienne", rue Berthe, Biskra in Algeria in the 19th century who recorded scenes in the Sahara, Biskra and El Kantara. His work was widely used for photo More... Henryk Ross (1910, 1 May - 1991) was born - Poland, Warsaw. Appointed by the Jewish Council as official photographer to the Statistics Department to document life in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland during the Second World War (1940-1945). In 1944 just before the ghetto was closed he buried the negatives returing More... Theodore Roszak (1907, 1 May - 1981, 7 September) was born - Poland, Posen [now Poland, Poznan]. American painter and sculptor who also works with photograms J. Wells Champney (1843, 16 July - 1903, 1 May) died - US, NY, New York City. Nasir al-Din Shah (1831, 16 July - 1896, 1 May) died - Persia, Tehran. Shah of Persia (17 September 1848 to 1 May 1896) and a passionate photographer and painter. He established a photographic studio in the Golestan Palace in Tehran. William McFarlane Notman (1858, 1 November - 1913, 1 May) died. Eldest son of photographer William Notman (1826-1891). He became a partner in his father's company in 1882 and inherited it in 1891 on the death of his father. His brother Charles (1870-1955) was made a partner in around 1894. William McFarlane More... |
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