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Photographic Studios - Luther Gerlach

I've decided to include some virtual visits to photographic studios in these Newsletters.

We will start with Luther Gerlach - if you require a course on early photographic techniques, assistance with conservation or master prints give him a call.

Luther Gerlach has been working in historical photographic processes for the past 40 years. After apprenticing with Brett Weston for two years and establishing his career as a fine art photographer specializing in ultra large format wet plate collodion, Gerlach began working with the Education Department at the J. Paul Getty museum where he led lectures, demonstrations and workshops for over 20 years.

Luther Gerlach in his studio (2021)
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As a master printer and conservator, Gerlach has applied his meticulous craftsmanship and technical expertise to prints residing in collections including the The Michael Wilson Centre of Photography, the Graham Howe collection, the National Portrait Gallery in London, LACMA, the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution and The Solander Collection.

Today Gerlach's Connecticut barn houses an 800 sq ft darkroom equipped with Cole Weston's Saltzman enlarger and capable of producing mural sized prints in a variety of historical printing processes including platinum, carbon, albumen and silver gelatin.

The photographic studio barn of Luther Gerlach, Connecticut (2021)
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In addition to full service archival printing of photographs and portfolios, clients are welcome to stay in a private apartment while they use the fully equipped darkroom to print independently or with Gerlach's oversight.

Luth Gerlach, 2018, "Burning Bush," Gelatin silver print, unique, 16 x 20 in.
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Luther Gerlach
Fine Art Photographer and Historical Photographic Specialist
1.805.452.8433
luthergerlach@gmail.com
www.luthergerlach.net

Library of Congress: National Stereoscopic Photography Research Fellowship

It is wonderful news to see that the Library of Congress, in conjunction with the National Stereoscopic Association (NSA), is offering a National Stereoscopic Photography Research Fellowship. I hope you are all getting your applications ready as they have to be submitted by April 15, 2022. This is part of a larger collaborative project between the NSA and Library of Congress and I'm sure we all look forward to further information on that as it progresses.

Luminous-Lint: The Stereographs Project

Juan Laurent, "Burgos, Spain", 1870 (ca), Stereoview, Archive Farms, The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2017.778
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Staying with stereographs there are parts of Luminous-Lint that are progressing at a bewildering speed. The Stereographs Project includes multiple parts:

Listings of stereo photographers by country and town, for a general look go to Locations or how about Germany?
Listings of US stereo photographers by state and town or perhaps Stereo photographers in the US
Listings of stereo photographers by theme

Listings by T. K. Treadwell, William C. Darrah, Wolfgang Sell and others have been enhanced, alternative names, index cross-referencing, disambiguation addressed and corrected where possible. The Stereographs Project is an ongoing task and will continue until I shuffle off the mortal coil.

On the Internet we can enhance these listings with examples of the stereographs, their backs, labels, stamps, backlists, advertisements, portraits of photographers and their studios etc. This is underway I would like to thank the hundreds of collectors who have provided examples so far. Thanks for sharing.

So how will the next phases proceed?

Examples of single stereographs and series will be added to the listings of photographers. Initially the ordering of these will be crude but they will be reordered as we proceed.
Bibliographic and research notes will be prepared for each of the lists.
Gaps in the content will be isolated to request examples and additional knowledge.
Texts and footnotes will be prepared as time allows.

Each of these is a large task but far from impossible. Many thousands of stereographs are indexed ready to be incorporated into this vast project.

If you have regional series, knowledge on a specific photographer or interest in a specific theme get in touch.

Tests are now underway and progress will be announced in upcoming newsletters.

Antonella Russo: Italian Neorealist Photography - Its Legacy and Aftermath

Antonella Russo, 2022, Italian Neorealist Photography - Its Legacy and Aftermath, (Routledge History of Photogrtaphy)
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We all have vast gaps in our knowledge and it is a true pleasure to read an insightful volume on a topic I knew little about.

Photohistory Quests - Progress to date (16 February 2022)

We have now completed 600 Photohistory Quests and thanks to all of who have joined in by sharing examples from your collections and leads to institutional examples. We've explored many little known themes of photohistory.

PHOTOHISTORY QUESTS
SIXTH SERIES: 501-600

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 Ottoman 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)
560. Desserts, cakes, jellies, rice pudding and other delights (23 December 2021)
561. Frost (24 December 2021)
562. Links between photography and Freemasons (27 December 2021)
563. France: Lourdes - Buildings, rites and pilgrims (28 December 2021)
564. Telegraph and telephone cables (30 December 2021)
565. Eyewear, opticians and eye charts (31 December 2021)
566. Deer - Cervidae (1 January 2022)
567. Stereoviews taken in Ireland (2 January 2022)
568. Cartes de visite and cabinet cards of French Royalty and Nobility (3 January 2022)
569. Waves (4 January 2022)
570. Vietnam War and the French colonial lead up to it (5 January 2022)
571. Scientists (6 January 2022)
572. Giraudon's Artist (7 January 2022)
573. Army Relief Fair, Albany, N.Y., 1864 (10 January 2022)
574. Series on housing conditions in a single city (11 January 2022)
575. Venezuela (12 January 2022)
576. Percussion (13 January 2022)
577. Leaves (14 January 2022)
578. Solveig Lund (1869-1943) and Norwegian folk costumes (15 January 2022)
579. Caves, grottoes and the photography of the subterranean natural world (17 January 2022)
580. Damaged film, negatives, slides and prints (18 January 2022)
581. Events depicted on cabinet cards (19 January 2022)
582. Socks and stockings (20 January 2022)
583. Photography and the legends of King Arthur (21 January 2022)
584. President John F. Kennedy (25 January 2022)
585. The whaling industry (26 January 2022)
586. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 25 March 1911 (27 January 2022)
587. Tintypes showing Native Americans (28 January 2022)
588. Photographs of street photographers taken by contemporary photographers (29 January 2022)
589. Humorous illustrations of animals with head rests (31 January 2022)
590. Farmyards (1 February 2022)
591. Aerial views of urban development 1930s-1970s (2 February 2022)
592. Tigers (3 February 2022)
593. Charles Barclay Woodham Moravia: Indian architecture (4 February 2022)
594. Salvador Dali (7 February 2022)
595. Romani people (8 February 2022)
596. Stereoviews taken in Spain and Portugal (9 February 2022)
597. Brussels (Bruxelles), Belgium (10 February 2022)
598. Illustrations of stereoscopes (11 February 2022)
599. Public parks around the world (14 February 2022)
600. Stereoscopes on stands or columns (15 February 2022)

The photographs uploaded have now been fully integrated into Luminous-Lint to provide a richer understanding of photohistory. The updating of the texts continues.

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:

Luminous-Lint: Acknowledgements

Thanks again for all your help over the years.

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Photographic Studios - Luther Gerlach

Library of Congress: National Stereoscopic Photography Research Fellowship

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Antonella Russo: Italian Neorealist Photography - Its Legacy and Aftermath

Photohistory Quests - Progress to date (16 February 2022)

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Photographic Studios - Luther Gerlach

Library of Congress: National Stereoscopic Photography Research Fellowship

Luminous-Lint: The Stereographs Project

Antonella Russo: Italian Neorealist Photography - Its Legacy and Aftermath

Photohistory Quests - Progress to date (16 February 2022)

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