Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 12.3

June 14, 2018

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Welcome

Welcome to another Luminous-Lint Newsletter.

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To all Luminous-Lint subscribers and contributors I'd like to say thanks for your support. All the best, Alan

Unusual Visual Indexes on Luminous-Lint

Luminous-Lint currently includes 8,925 Visual Indexes and whilst some of them are obvious such as the front and backs of photographs, studio stamps, and multiple versions of same photograph there are many other kinds of indexes. In this Newsletter I'll highlight a few different types.

Geographical Visual Indexes

For most of the significant locations in the history of photography there are Visual Indexes and these are at the country, city, street, building and room level depending on what is available. These bring together images taken of a specific place as an aid to understanding viewpoints.

Here I'll use the Pyramids of Giza as an example.

Charles Piazzi Smyth, All the Pyramids of Jeezah [i.e. Giza], from the south [Australian Inland Mission Collection], 1850-1880 (ca), Colored lantern slide, 8.2 x 8.2 cm, National Library of Australia (24429297)
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Shown below is part of the Visual Index for "Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza" and it is basically a chronological index to the major photographs of the monuments showing works by both well-known and lesser-known photographers. Each photograph can be enlarged and there are checklists to enable further research.

Alan Griffiths, 13 June 2018, Luminous-Lint screenshot showing part of the visual index for "Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza", Screenshot
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Whilst this is useful we can take it a step further as there are also sub-indexes within the texts. The sub-indexes go to finer levels of granularity showing similar viewpoints taken by different photographers, panoramas, and the entrance to the Great Pyramid showing how it was cleared over time.

Alan Griffiths, 13 June 2018, Luminous-Lint screenshot showing sub-indexes of the visual index for "Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza", Screenshot
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Indexes are refined all the time and are used to illustrate the many Themes.

Visual Indexes that consolidate scattered content

Frequently at auctions a waxed paper print is sold to one collection whilst a print made from the negative goes to another collection. Whilst this is inevitable with those disposing of collections seeking the highest return tracking the different pieces can be done using Visual Indexes on Luminous-Lint.

A cursory, and by no means complete, examination of the various photographs of the "Bust of Patroclus" by Henry Fox Talbot show them to be in the National Science and Media Museum (London), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, George Eastman Museum, Beaux-arts de Paris, the National Gallery of Canada etc etc and various private collections.

Alan Griffiths, 14 June 2018, Luminous-Lint screenshot showing part of the visual index for "Henry Fox Talbot: Bust of Patroclus", Screenshot
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In the case of Fox Talbot the continually fascinating online Catalogue Raisonné, under the scholarly eye of Larry Schaaf, eases this kind of search and there are similar catalogues in book form for Hill & Adamson, Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron. There are few photographers that have been favoured by this kind of intensive research and Luminous-Lint provides starting points for many other online catalogue raisonnés.

Visual Indexes that could be exhibitions or books on their own

As the content improves along with the ordering of the images within the Visual Indexes they become increasingly like physical exhibitions with their catalogue checklists. They don't have the accompanying text as that is included elsewhere on Luminous-Lint within the Fragments on the different Themes but they do solidify and provide the research materials for further discussion.

Here is a part of the "Paintings and prints based on photographs or vice versa" Visual Index where you can see the bi-directional connections between photography and art.

Alan Griffiths, 14 June 2018, Luminous-Lint screenshot showing part of the visual index for "Paintings and prints based on photographs or vice versa", Screenshot
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Some of these pairings of images are well known and will be included as examples in books and articles on the interconnections between art and photography but others will be new to most researchers.

The thousands of well-sourced Visual Indexes on Luminous-Lint provide the examples to help generate fresh ideas about photohistory. No matter what your area of interest is in photohistory it is covered on Luminous-Lint.

The "Privacy" bit of this newsletter - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

McQuarrie, "Eyes of Censorship - peering through paper counter-stamped by Base Censors and then U.S. Censors Offices, Algiers, Africa", 12 October 1943, Gelatin silver print, U.S. Army, Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army - Signal Corps Photo: MM-MCQ-43-4119 (McQuarrie)
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If you've been checking your emails over the last couple of months you'll have been flooded by messages about the "General Data Protection Regulation" so this will be boringly familiar to you.

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We've come a very long way together and I hope you will stay as we continue to push forward innovative and highly detailed histories of photography.

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Given the scale of Luminous-Lint it is difficult to remember all the names of those who have helped in ways both large and small. Having said that one should always try so I‘ve added an "Acknowledgements" page to get the ball rolling. As you go through it you will get a sense of the truly international scope of this project.

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Welcome

Thanks for your support

Unusual Visual Indexes on Luminous-Lint

Geographical Visual Indexes

Visual Indexes that consolidate scattered content

Visual Indexes that could be exhibitions or books on their own

The "Privacy" bit of this newsletter - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

So who has been involved in Luminous-Lint to date?

Free Trial of Luminous-Lint

Educational subscriptions

Recently updated Themes

Getting around

PhotographersConnectionsDirectory

Stereographs Project

Library

Video feeds, audio feeds, and enhanced media documents

Welcome

Thanks for your support

Unusual Visual Indexes on Luminous-Lint

Geographical Visual Indexes

Visual Indexes that consolidate scattered content

Visual Indexes that could be exhibitions or books on their own

The "Privacy" bit of this newsletter - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

So who has been involved in Luminous-Lint to date?

Free Trial of Luminous-Lint

Educational subscriptions

Recently updated Themes