Welcome to another Luminous-Lint Newsletter. May I wish all of you the very best for the forthcoming Holiday Season.
To all Luminous-Lint subscribers and contributors I'd like to say thanks for your continuing support.
This year I've made visits to ten countries to meet with curators, photohistorians, collectors, archivists and friends of photography and I'd like to thank those in the USA, France, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Greece and Luxembourg who took time to explain their collections and interests. I'd also like to thank all those arranging my lectures as I was on my travels.
As the Holiday Season is coming soon I thought that I should share some greeting cards sent by photographers over the year - enjoy!
All the best, Alan
Felice Beato, "Image of Gautama, With Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Bright New Year", n.d., Albumen print, mounted on printed card, Ethnologisches Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Ethnological Museum of Berlin), Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ident. Nr: VIII C 20368, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE)
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Juliet and Man Ray (1945) |
Man Ray, Greetings, 1945, Gelatin silver print, 4 15/16 x 3 15/16 ins (12.6 x 10 cm) (image and sheet), Philadelphia Museum of Art, 125th Anniversary Acquisition. The Lynne and Harold Honickman Gift of the Julien Levy Collection, 2001, Accession Number: 2001-62-786, © Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
LL/72077
Angus McBean, "Xmas Greetings 1950", 1950, Christmas card, Pierre Spake Fine Art
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Joseph Janney Steinmetz (1950) |
Joseph Janney Steinmetz (1905-1985, Florida), "Merry Christmas the Steinmetzes 1950", 1950, Gelatin silver print, photomontage, State Archives of Florida, Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection, Image Number: JJS0003
LL/79389
André Kertész, "Greetings", 1952, Gelatin silver print, 13.5 x 11.9 cm, George Eastman Museum, Gift of Katharine Kuh, 1980.0407.0001
LL/69740
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Geocoding stores geographic coordinates (like latitude and longitude) to allow sites and items to be located on maps. There have been multiple geocoding projects addressing photohistory and this is now being implemented throughout Luminous-Lint. This will be a multi-step process working down a hierarchy from Themes, to Fragments, to Visual Indexes and finally individual photographs. This will take years but the final result will be global maps that can highlight individual locations with the most significant photographic images related to them.
It is a work in progress but like the PhV (Photohistory Visualizer), already on Luminous-Lint, it will reveal different ways of navigating through photohistory in profound ways.
If you have experience to share on geocoding get in touch.
So who has been involved in Luminous-Lint to date? |
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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The following Themes have just been updated.
Abstraction of the real
Acropolis
Actors
Advertising in newspapers
Advertising
African Americans
Albumen prints
Albums
Ambrotypes
Archaeology
Art
Australia
Austria
Awards and medals
Backgrounds and foregrounds
Backmarks
Boats, canoes and kayaks
Cabinet cards
Carte de visite
Cased photographs
Cases
Chairs and sofas
Characters and occupational types
Children
Christianity
Civil engineering
Composition
Daguerreotypes
Dead
Death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento mori
Domesticated animals
Ethnic and traditional costumes
Exhibitions and competitions
Experimental and manipulated photography
Fabricated realities
Fashion
Greece
Group portraits
Hand-painted photographs
Hands
Humour
Hungary
Instantaneous photography
Interiors of photographic studios
Italy
Itinerant photographers
Literature
London
Marketing
Mugshots
Narratives
Non-canonical photography
Occupational
Occupations and roles
Painting on photographs
Peoples of the world
Pets
Photo postcards
Photographer and studio labels
Portrait
Postcards
Props
Racial issues
Real photo postcards
Remnants of the Ancient and Classical world
Romania
Rome
Rooms and their contents
Salt prints
Social life of photographs
Spain
Staircases
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards
Studio necessities
The Netherlands
Toys
Transportation
Turkey
Venice
Vernacular
Water transportation
If you have suggestions for examples and subjects that should be added please let me know.
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