| Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 11.6 | August 7, 2017 | | | Home • What‘s New • Photographers • Online Exhibitions
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The Shape of Things to Come... |
Over the last five years we‘ve started to see the increasing acceptance of digital resources that go beyond the online catalogues managed by institutions. These are still stand-alone projects but the real advantages will be apparent they become increasingly integrated.
Digital resources for photohistorians
Institutions, auction houses, galleries and collectors have all explored creating digital products for iPad and mobile phones over the last five years. Sotheby‘s, New York, had an iPad online catalogue for their Photographs sale on 3 October 2012. There was an iBook of Terry Bennett‘s Old Japanese Photographs: Collector‘s Data Guide created by MAPP Editions in 2013. The same company published the iBook of Atlas photographique de la Lune, 1890-1910 with additions also in 2013. | 
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In addition to mobile applications there is an increasing trend towards the construction of online Catalogue Raisonné including those for William Henry Fox Talbot at the University of Oxford and the Robert Cornelius Daguerreotype Database Project and volumes on the mammoth plates of Carleton Watkins and Catalogue Raisonné for Linneaus Tripe, Lewis Carroll and Hill & Adamson are all part of this trend.
Sean Nolan has done excellent work with his Fixed in Time guide to daguerreotype, ambrotype & tintype mats and cases for which a downloadable copy is freely available.
The Photographers‘ Identities Catalog (PIC) at New York Public Library is demonstrating the potential of large datasets in photohistory.
Photogrammar at Yale University provides sophisticated access through an interactive map and advanced visualizations to the 170,000 photographs taken between 1935 and 1945 created under the auspices of the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).
The projects on photohistory are only a part of larger projects in the arts such as ULAN (Unified List of Artists Names) and the Art and Architecture Thesaurus managed by the Getty and wonderful interfaces to art history such as the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Thresholds
The Thresholds VR project by Matt Collishaw, recreated the 1839 exhibition of the photographs of William Henry Fox Talbot. Here the user can touch physical cases and using virtual reality, through a headset and tracking technology, see digital surrogates of the photographs shown at the original exhibition in a simulation of their display environment. | 
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All of these projects, and many many more, are indicators of what will become essential resources within photohistory. Catalogue Raisonné, mobile applications, integrated datasets, interactive timelines, visualizations and virtual reality interfaces are all increasingly sophicated tools to explore photohistory. Each of these show the shape of things to come and they depend on structured inter-linked data that provide the information necessary for well-researched analysis - Luminous-Lint is a part of this.
Proposal for an online library on photohistory |
Luminous-Lint includes an integrated bibliography of over 9,400 books, articles and conference papers on photohistory. This resource supports the texts in the Themes and the footnotes right through the project. It would be straightforward to include online PDF files of the original texts and integrate them so users can bring them up directly. If you have authored articles on any aspect of photohistory and would like to share your research more widely please send me the full citation and the PDF and I will do the rest.
Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
Examples and suggestions requested |
Any assistance with leads on the following research topics will be gratefully received - thanks.
Central Asia
The photographers of South-West and Central Asia are not well known but there was Dimitry Ermakov (1846-1916) in Georgia, Hugues Krafft (1853-1935) in Russian Turkstan, and Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii who took some remarkable early colour photographs in Georgia and Kazakhstan. Generally the photography of this extensive region is not well known and I'd be interested in any leads to private or institutional collections. | 
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Dutch East Indies / Indonesia
The history of Indonesia since the early seventeenth century has been closely linked with European colonization as the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was established in 1602 and dominated the spice trade until 1800 when the government of The Netherlands established the Dutch East Indies. Dutch control continued until the Second World War when Japanese forces occupied the region. Soon after the war ended there was a nationalist movement seeking to move away from Dutch rule and in December 1949 Indonesia gained its independence.
There were many photographers active in the Dutch East Indies including:Tassilo Adam (1878-1965) • Wilhelm Burger (1844-1920) • Kassian Cephas (1845-1912) • Désiré Charnay (1828-1915) • Georg Gerster (1928-) • Hermann and Co • Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) • C.J. Kleingrothe • Koene and Co • Arthur Koppel • Gregor Krause • O. Kurkdjian & Co • G.R. Lambert & Co. • George Lewis • George P. Lewis • C. Nieuwenhuis (1863-1922) • David Dare Parker • André Roosevelt (1879-1962) • Herman Salzwedel • S. Satake • Adolph Schaefer • Gotthard Schuh (1897-1969) • Fedor Schulze • Isidore van Kinsbergen (1821-1905) • Daniel David Veth • Thilly Weissenborn (1889-1964) • Walter B. Woodbury (1834-1885) • Woodbury & Page I'd be interested in hearing from those who collect photographs of the Dutch East Indies and the surrounding region. | 
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Guidelines for sitters
In 1852 Southworth & Hawes gave extensive guidelines for those sitting for a portrait and there are numerous other examples of photographers providing recommendations on posing. Sometimes they included recommendations on the fabrics to be worn as in this daguerreian example from Mons. Blume in Ireland:Dark Silks and Satins are best for Ladies’ Dresses Checked, Striped, or Figured materials, are also good, provided they are not too light. The only unsuitable material is Black Velvet, and white in every instance is to be avoided. I'm seeking Guidelines for sitters from anywhere in the world and from any time period. | 
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Educational subscriptions |
As educators are now busy doing tweaks to their classes on photohistory and art history it is time to ensure that your subscription to Luminous-Lint has been confirmed. Please check with whoever manages subscription to digital resources to ensure all is well. If you are a professor, researcher or student requiring access to Luminous-Lint please contact your head of department or librarian.
If you need any assistance with curriculum planning or resources to supplement your courses send me an email.
All the best for the coming semester.
Luminous-Lint is under continuous revision and the following Themes have just been improved. If you have suggestions for subjects that should be added or enhanced please let me know.
Africa
Albumen prints
Ambrotypes
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Animals
Antarctica
Archaeology
Architecture
Art
Astronomy
Australia
Backgrounds and foregrounds
Back
Botany
Cabinet cards
Calotypes
Cameraless photographs
Cars
Cased photographs
Chairs and sofas
Civil engineering
Colonialism
Colosseum
Colour
Daguerreotypes
Daguerreotypists - Italy
Egypt
Equipment
Exhibitions and competitions
Expeditions and exploration
Experimental and manipulated photography
Fabricated realities
Fauna
Fiji
Flora
Geology
Germany
Greece
Group portraits
Hand-painted photographs
Hands
Interiors of photographic studios
Italy
Land transportation
Landscape
Marketing
Medical
Military
Mining and extraction
Musicians
New Zealand
Non-paper objects
Painting on photographs
Paper and waxed paper negatives
Peoples of the world
Photogenic drawings
Photograms
Photographic studios
Photographing art - sculpture
Photography related magazines and journals
Photomontage
Portrait
Props
Remnants of the Ancient and Classical world
Retouching, colouring and painting kits
Rome
Salt prints
South Africa
Spain
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards
Surrealism
Tintypes
Transit of Venus
Trees
Urban life
Women photographers
World's Fairs and International Exhibitions
X-rays
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Jean-Philippe Charbonnier (1921, 28 August - 2004, 28 May) was born - France, Paris. French artist and photographer.
Nell Dorr (1893, 28 August - 1988) was born - US, OH, Cleveland. Abstractions and she used a pictorialist style to show beauty and harmony in her images rather than the surrounding horror so well represented in other photography. Her book ‘Mother and Child‘ explores the deep relationships that exist.
Louis Faurer (1916, 28 August - 2001, 2 March) was born - US, PA, Philadelphia. American photographer.
Ugo Mulas (1928, 28 August - 1973, 2 March) was born - Italy, Brescia, Pozzolengo. Italian photojournalist which started his career as a stage photographer.
Thomas J. Nevin (1842, 28 August - 1923, March) was born - Ireland, nr. Belfast. Nineteenth and early twentieth century Australian police and commerical photographer.
Vittorio Sella (1859, 28 August - 1943, 12 August) was born - Sardinian States, Biella. Mountaineer and photographer who produced outstanding works on the Alps, the Caucasus, Alaska and the Himalayas. His hometown of Biella in Italy hosts the Fondazione Sella with a collection of over 4,000 of his works.
Russell Lee (1903, 21 July - 1986, 28 August) died. American documentary photographer - best known for his 1936 - 1942 work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
Félix Teynard (1817, 14 January - 1892, 28 August) died. Early French travel photographer who traveled between Cairo and the Second Cataract on the Nile 1851-1852. He is best known for the series of 160 plates of Egypt that were published between 1853 and 1858 as Égypte et Nubie, sites et monuments More...
Doris Ulmann (1882, 29 May - 1934, 28 August) died - US, NY, New York. Studio portraits in the pictorialist style, followed by shows of minorities such as the Shaker, Memmonite and Dunker communities. |
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