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August Sander, [Untitled] / [Tree in winter], 1930-1940 (ca), Gelatin silver print, J. Paul Getty Museum, © J. Paul Getty Trust, Object Number: 84.XM.126.31
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Photohistory Quests - Progress to date (22 December 2021) |
We have now completed 559 photohistory quests and uncovered many photographs hidden away in private collections. Thanks to everybody who is participating by sharing examples and leads to institutional examples.
PHOTOHISTORY QUESTS:
FIFTH SERIES: 401-500
401. India: Delhi: Qutub Minar - Qutb Minar - Kutub Minar (13 June 2021)
402. The Temples of Paestum, Italy (14 June 2021)
403. Bedouin (16 June 2021)
404. Nicaragua and surrounding countries (17 June 2021)
405. The peoples of South America (18 June 2021)
406. Bananas, their varieties, cultivation, transportation and sale (20 June 2021)
407. Hinduism, temples, rituals and adherents (21 June 2021)
408. Scientific instruments and equipment (22 June 2021)
409. Scientific laboratories (23 June 2021)
410. Cowboys from any part of the world (24 June 2021)
411. The purity of the horizon (25 June 2021)
412. Artworks made by photographers besides photographs (26 June 2021)
413. Artworks by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (27 June 2021)
414. Scotland - Mountains, Glens and Rivers (28 June 2021)
415. Photographs, or illustrations, of display boards and cases for photographs (29 June 2021)
416. Snow sheds (30 June 2022)
417. Post-mortem photographs of identified people (1 July 2021)
418. Butchers (2 July 2021)
419, Continuity shots and film stills (3 July 2021)
420. Backgrounds and foregrounds in African photo studios (4 July 2021)
421. The use of text and calligraphy in portraiture (5 July 2021)
422. Bullfighting, the rings and those involved (6 July 2021)
423. Stereograph military portraits (7 July 2021)
424. Mourning clothing (8 July 2021)
425. Skin diseases (9 July 2021)
426. Suburbia (10 July 2021)
427. Booths where the public could obtain portraits of celebrities (11 July 2021)
428. The Hell's Angels and motorcycle gangs from anywhere in the world (12 July 2021)
429. Constantinople - Istanbul: Obelisk of Theodosius (13 July 2021)
430. Poor quality control on card-mounted photographs (14 July 2021)
431. Negatives for card-mounted photographs (15 July 2021)
432. Francis Bedford in Wales (16 July 2021)
433. Photographic studio day books and sample boards (17 July 2021)
434. Photographic copies of silhouettes (20 July 2021)
435. Train wheels at rest or in motion (21 July 2021)
436. Singing troupes and bands (22 July 2021)
437. The Olympics (23 July 2021)
438. The Olympics - Swimming and diving (24 July 2021)
439. The Olympics - Cycling (25 July 2021)
440. The Olympics - Track and Field (26 July 2021)
441. The Olympics - Boxing (27 July 2021)
442. The Olympics - Soccer (28 July 2021)
443. The Olympics - Tennis (29 July 2021)
444. Dating by buildings and features of the urban environment (30 July 2021)
445. Self portraits taken with a string or a rubber squeeze ball and pneumatic tube opening the shutter (2 August 2021)
446. Mountain climbers and mountain guides (3 August 2021)
447. The Linked Ring Brotherhood (4 August 2021)
448. The finest Daguerreotype group portraits (5 August 2021)
449. The finest salt paper print group portraits (6 August 2021)
450. Ambrotype group portraits (7 August 2021)
451. Albumen print group portraits (8 August 2021)
452. Gelatin silver print group portraits (9 August 2021)
453. The flooring of identified Daguerreian photographic studios (10 August 2021)
454. Table cloths in identified Daguerreian photographic studios (11 August 2021)
455. Balustrades in Daguerreian photographic studios (12 August 2021)
456. Headwear and hair ornamentation for women (13 August 2021)
457. Photochroms (14 August 2021)
458. Beds of famous people (15 August 2021)
459. Paperweights with photographs of places (16 August 2021)
460. Headwear and hair ornamentation for men (17 August 2021)
461. The material culture of non-Western societies (18 August 2021)
462. The Sutherland Sisters (19 August 2021)
463. Early photographs showing Leica cameras (20 August 2021)
464. The photographs of Antoine-François-Jean Claudet (21 August 2021)
465. The photographs of Richard Beard (23 August 2021)
466. Egypt: Cairo: Cemeteries and tombs of the Mamalukes (24 August 2021)
467. Jerusalem: Arch of Ecce Homo (25 August 2021)
468. Fiji (26 August 2021)
469. Dry docks (27 August 2021)
470. Zulus (28 August 2021)
471. Rats and rat catchers (29 August 2021)
472. Measuring humanity (30 August 2021)
473. Graffiti (31 August 2021)
474. Petra and other archaeological sites in Jordan (1 September 2021)
475. Search lights and tracer bullets (2 September 2021)
476. Dancers (3 September 2021)
477. Alphonse Bertillon and the measurement of criminals (4 September 2021)
478. Fakes and forgeries - their prevention and detection using photography (5 September 2021)
479. Sideshow performers, living museums and circus acts (6 September 2021)
480. The Russian Revolution (7 September 2021)
481. Ambrotypes showing objects (8 September 2021)
482. Swings as studio props (9 September 2021)
483. Ladders (10 September 2021)
484. Vorticism (11 September 2021)
485. Staircases (12 September 2021)
486. Kitchen utensils, pots and pans, serving dishes, tableware and glasses (13 September 2021)
487. Elections (14 September 2021)
488. Mt. Everest and nearby peaks (15 September 2021)
489. Street photography, 1890-1915 (16 September 2021)
490. St. Petersburg, Russia (17 September 2021)
491. The Sequoias of the American West Coast (20 September 2021)
492. Souks and markets of North Africa and the Middle East (21 September 2021)
493. Symbolic representations of trees (22 September 2021)
494. Machu Picchu (23 September 2021)
495. Posing chairs and sofas for children (24 September 2021)
496. Albumen print still lifes (25 September 2021)
497. Floral memorials and floral wreaths (28 September 2021)
498. Locomotive Works (29 September 2021)
499. Antwerp (30 September 2021)
500. Shafts of light (1 October 2021)
SIXTH SERIES: 501-524
501. Gas masks (2 October 2021)
502. Joy (4 October 2021)
503. Fictions and fabricated realities (5 October 2021)
504. Carpenters and wheelwrights (7 October 2021)
505. Daguerreotypes taken by daguerreotypists of their own families (8 October 2021)
506. Calotypes and salt prints taken by photographers of their own families (9 October 2021)
507. Kissing (11 October 2021)
508. Legs (12 October 2021)
509. Doorways and doors to cathedrals, churches, abbeys and monasteries (13 October 2021)
510. The Royal Family of Hawaii (14 October 2021)
511. Pre-1920 fashion photography (15 October 2021)
512. Tulips (16 October 2021)
513. H. Schnaebeli: Der Deutsche Krieg von 1870. Metz und Umgebung (18 October 2021)
514. Sculptural busts (19 Ocober 2021)
515. Exploration and travel in South America (20 October 2021)
516. Zoos (21 October 2021)
517. Islamic architecture in India (22 October 2021)
518. Propaganda (25 October 2021)
519. People at the window (26 October 2021)
520. Sewers and their construction (27 October 2021)
521. Portugal (28 October 2021)
522. Screenshots of the photohistory-related digital apps you use (29 October 2021)
523. Unintended insects on the negative or positive (1 November 2021)
524. How have birthdays been celebrated with photography? (2 November 2021)
525. Snapshots and vernacular photography from Africa (3 November 2021)
526. London: St. Paul's Cathedral (4 November 2021)
527. Identity cards, membership cards, passes and documents (5 November 2021)
528. The creation and growth of seaside resorts in the nineteenth century (8 November 2021)
529. The Tower of London (9 November 2021)
530. Fruit vendors from around the world (10 November 2021)
531. Dejatch Alamayou (11 November 2021)
532. Fashion photography in the 1930s (12 November 2021)
533. William H. Rau (15 November 2021)
534. Evidence for trimming and inserting cartes de visite and cabinet cards into albums (16 November 2021)
535. Towns and villages of Morocco (18 November 2021)
536. Tanks (19 November 2021)
537. Louisiana (22 November 2021)
538. Pianos (23 November 2021)
539. Events documented on cabinet cards (24 November 2021)
540. Night photography showing cars (25 November 2021)
541. The Jewish populations of North Africa (26 November 2021)
542. The Jordan River, including bridges over it, and the Dead Sea (29 November 2021)
543. Printers, printing and typography (30 November 2022)
544. Cyanotype postcards (1 December 2021)
545. Kaleidoscopes and photographs taken with them (2 December 2021)
546. Marseille (3 December 2021)
547. Railway workers (6 December 2021)
548. Photographs taken by Émile Gsell in SE Asia (7 December 2021)
549, Fencing, fencers, swords, fencing clubs and Heidelberg scars (8 December 2021)
550, Sleds, sleighs and transportation in winter (9 December 2021)
551. Artillery and artillery shells (10 December 2021)
552. Buddhist monks (bhikku) and their rituals (13 December 2021)
553. The River Rhine (14 December 2021)
554. Backmarks of the Otooman Empire (15 December 2021)
555. August Sander (16 December 2021)
556. Native American photographers (17 December 2021)
557. Mannequins and dress forms (20 December 2021)
558. Brrr... Trees and bushes covered with snow or ice (21 December 2021)
559. Cityscapes with snow and ice (22 December 2021)
The photographs uploaded have now been fully integrated into Luminous-Lint to provide a richer understanding of photohistory. The updating of the texts is continuing.
FACEBOOK group: PHOTOHISTORY QUESTS
Here the photographs are not limited to a technique or date as I'm delving into the outer reaches of what is available in photography.
My deepest appreciation to all of you who have participated in the QUESTS to date and you can see everybody who has provided images to Luminous-Lint here:
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The following Themes were updated on 22 December 2021.
AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
Advertising
Agricultural and pastoral
Air transportation
Airplanes
Albumen prints
Anthropology and ethnology
Architecture
Backgrounds and foregrounds
Botany
Cabinet cards
Cameras
Cartes de visite
Characters and occupational types
Charity
Christian architecture
Christianity
Cityscapes - Urban
Civil engineering
Dead
Domesticated animals
Ears
Ethnic and traditional costumes
Eyes
Fashion
Feet
First World War (1914-1918)
Flowers
Germany
Hand-painted photographs
Hands
Ice and snow
Illustrated magazines and photojournalism
Illustrated magazines
Interiors of photographic studios
Ireland
Islam
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days
Landscape photography and environmental issues
Landscape
Literature
Memory
Military
Mining and extraction
Modernism
Narratives
New Objectivity - Neue Sachlichkeit
Occupational
Occupations and roles
Peoples of the world
Photographers
Photographic studios
Photojournalism
Portrait
Propaganda
Props
Railways
Religions
Religious architecture
Rise of the illustrated magazine
Rivers and streams
Rooms and their contents
Rural pathways, tracks, trails and lanes
Second World War (1939-1945)
Social outsiders
Sri Lanka
Staircases
Stamps
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards
Still life
Text and calligraphy
Tipped-in photographs and books illustrated with photographs
Travel
Trees
Turkey
Typologies
Using different viewpoints
Vietnam
War
Weimar Germany (1919-1933)
If you have suggestions for examples and subjects that should be added please let me know.
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