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Stereoscopy Day (21 June 2022) - Stereographs Project

The Stereographs Project on Luminous-Lint is progressing well with the indexes to photographers being continually updated. The next phase is adding in stereograph examples for the photographers, locations and themes and this will be an ongoing process extending far into the future.

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Unidentified photographer, A school class using stereocards and stereoviewers, 1920s, Gelatin silver print, 5 x 7 ins, Private collection of Jules Martino
LL/65197

To celebrate Stereoscopy Day, initiated by The London Stereoscopic Company Ltd, the second phase of the Stereographs Project is now available to all. Within this phase of the project examples are being added in for each theme. At this early stage the ordering of the over 11,000 stereographs is still rudimentary but it will improve as we go forward and I welcome your thoughts.

Examples of countries:

Switzerland
Germany
Russia

Examples of US States:

New York
Pennsylvania

Examples of themes:

Events
Rivers and streams
Trees

These examples are starting points and will be enhanced with contributions by members of the stereographic collecting community. Any indexes created will be under Creative Commons licenses for use by others.

W.M. Chase, Backlist for "Selected from Chase's Celebrated Collection of National Views.", 1860-1900, Stereoview, back, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s07895 (digital file from original, front) LC-DIG-stereo-2s07895 (digital file from original, back)
LL/108474

A Backlists webpage is also available and there are a couple of forthcoming enhancements. The first is to speed up display by breaking the content down into smaller chunks. The second is that we need access to the higher quality scans and that will be added in shortly. Please note that there are refinements in the ordering of the backlists to improve sequencing for research purposes.

Research work on disambiguation and the attribution of stereographs by as-yet-unknown photographers will be a key part of this project.

I very much hope you will all find The Stereographs Project useful and we can fully ensure that stereoscopy is integrated into the many histories of photography.

If you would like to be involved in this project please let me know.

Interviews on Luminous-Lint - Explaining what is happening...

In May I was interviewed by Jeff Douglas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) about Luminous-Lint so if you have a desire to hear my dulcet tones this is the place...

Mainstreet NS with Jeff Douglas: Halifax man on a quest to create the world's most comprehensive online photography archive (24 May 2022)

This follows on from a written interview I gave to Dr. Alasdair Foster of the Talking Pictures: Interviews with Photographers around the World website back in April.

Luminous-Lint: A Dynamic Genealogy of the Photograph (30 April 2022)

Moving forward at the same time as staying backwards

Luminous-Lint now has wide-ranging coverage with nineteenth century material being particularly strong. The over one thousand themes are progressing well but are far from complete. Almost all the themes, with the exception of abstraction, performance art, land art and a few others have early traces within the first century of photography.

If we use fabricated realities as a single example. In the theater backdrops, props, costumes and lighting create an illusion of time and place. Daguerreotypes almost from their earliest days used the same techniques to create mood and a sense of place and time. The plates of Samuel Broadbent (1810-1880) can be recognized by the distinctive trees painted on the studio background. Early photographs of actors, and sometimes the play, can be distinguished by their clothing and props.

Judd & McLeish, "72. Interior Wietling Opera House" [Syracuse and Its Surroundings], 1878 (published), Stereoview, half, James E. Arsenault & Company
Published in: H.P. Smith; Judd & McLeish (photographers), 1878, Syracuse and Its Surroundings, (Syracuse: Hamilton Child, Publisher, Journal Building)
LL/106339
As the theme fabricated realities continues through the history of photography in myriad forms we can isolate different kinds to establish typologies. By the time we get to the present day we will include the works of Sarah Hobbs, Paolo Ventura, Lori Nix, Stan Douglas, Gregory Crewdson, Cortis & Sonderegger and numerous others who are exploring worlds of the imagination with different approaches.

Sarah Hobbs, "Insomnia", 2000, Chromogenic print, 48 x 60 ins, Provided by the artist - Sarah Hobbs
Insomnia - materials represent construction of mental space/ problem (while each piece is very controlled I do try very hard to be open to changes - sheets, it is often change for the better, night sky, post-its low on the bed gives a feeling of the weight of a sleepless night. Source: From a lecture given by Sarah Hobbs at Augusta State University (29 September 2011)
LL/47820
Each theme is a series of spiralling threads through photohistory and the next task on Luminous-Lint is to document and analyze them. The long term, and it is very long term, objective now is to track trends, innovations and changes through to the present day. The frameworks to do this are already available on Luminous-Lint and now these need to filled in with examples, texts, footnotes and references.

Wish me luck and join in when you have images, knowledge and diverse perspectives to share.

All the best, Alan

Photohistory Quests - Progress to date (21 June 2022)

The Photohistory Quests are continuing on Facebook and my grateful thanks to all those involved.

PHOTOHISTORY QUESTS
SEVENTH SERIES: 601-700

601. Nineteenth century hand-painted landscape photography (16 February 2022)
602. The landscapes of war (17 February 2022)
603. Cartes de visite of China photographed by John Thomson (18 February 2022)
604. Photographic Archives - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (19 February 2022)
605. Stereoviews of Alabama (21 February 2022)
606. Ancestral images of the bizarre (22 February 2022)
607. Cartes de visite and cabinet cards of politicians (23 February 2022)
608. Ukraine (24 February 2022)
609. Ambrotypes of landscapes and urban settings (25 February 2022)
610. Daguerreotypes of landscapes (2 March 2022)
611. Yellowstone (3 March 2022)
612. Maurice Tabard (4 March 2022)
613. Chinatowns of North America (7 March 2022)
614. Machine parts (8 March 2022)
615. Calligraphy and photography (9 March 2022)
616. Physique photography studios (10 March 2022)
617. Inscriptions and squeezes (11 March 2022)
618. Match boxes and match books related to photography (14 March 2022)
619. Record album and CD covers with famous photographs as a part of the design (15 March 2022)
620. Subterranean Poland (16 March 2022)
621. Contemporary comics, cartoons and photography (17 March 2022)
622. Censorship (18 March 2022)
623. Picture in Picture (21 March 2022)
624. Evidence of a fear of photography (22 March 2022)
625. Accordions, harmoniums, melodeons and concertinas (23 March 2022)
626. Performance Art (24 March 2022)
627. Photographic studio catalogues by stereo photographers for internal use (25 March 2022)
628. Guitars (28 March 2022)
629. Wholesaler, bookseller, stationer and print seller labels and stamps (29 March 2022)
630. Beggars and those seeking money on the street (30 March 2022)
631. Evidence of copying photographs - The photographs themselves (31 March 2022)
632. Pirated stereoviews (1 April 2022)
633. Neo-Classical portraiture (4 April 2022)
634. Advertising for copying services. (5 April 2022)
635. Photography themed fabrics (6 April 2022)
636. In celebration of Jerry Uelsmann, 1934-2022 (7 April 2022)
637. Advertising on real photo postcards (11 April 2022)
638. The "Stans" of Central Asia (12 April 2022)
639. Cartes de visite and cabinet cards of street vendors (13 April 2022)
640. Sculptors who were also photographers (14 April 2022)
641. Jugglers (19 April 2022)
642. Fires in photographic studios (20 April 2022)
643. Clowns and mime artists (21 April 2022)
644. Tightrope walkers, wire walkers, high wire and trapeze artists (22 April 2022)
645. Poetry, however bad, and photography (25 April 2022)
646. Photo studio artistic back designs for real photo postcards (26 April 2022)
647. Dahabieh / Dahabeya on The Nile (27 April 2022)
648. Baseball (28 April 2022)
649. Skiing and ski jumping (29 April 2022)
650. Airports - real and imagined (2 May 2022)
651. Sinai (3 May 2022)
652. Peter Henry Emerson (4 May 2022)
653. The Erechtheion or Temple of Athena Polias, Acropolis, Athens (5 May 2022)
654. Conjoined twins (6 May 2022)
655. Syria (9 May 2022)
656. Dmitry Ermakov and his photographs in Georgia and the Caucasus (10 May 2022)
657. Kodak Fiends (11 May 2022)
658. Textile mills and their workers (12 May 2022)
659. The landscapes of Norway (13 May 2022)
660. The cities, towns and villages of Sweden (16 May 2022)
661. Prisons (17 May 2022)
662. Fashion photography in the 1960s (18 May 2022)
663. Mathematics (19 May 2022)
664. Information, disinformation and misinformation during the Russia-Ukraine conflict (20 May 2022)
665. Firemen, fire fighting equipment and fire stations (24 May 2022)
666. Sailors (25 May 2022)
667. Holy Communion (26 May 2022)
668. Peasants (27 May 2022)
669. Rabbits and hares (30 May 2022)
670. Reptiles (31 May 2022)
671. Hong Kong (1 June 2022)
672. f/64 (2 June 2022)
673. Kitchens (3 June 2022)
674. Cameras in the landscape (6 June 2022)
675. Women smoking hookahs (7 June 2022)
676. Colonialism, photography and the representation of power, status and labour (8 June 2022)
677. Missionaries and their works (9 June 2022)
678. Car interiors (10 June 2022)
679. Human Zoos (13 June 2022)
680. Sápmi: Lapps (Sami or Saami) (14 June 2022)
681. Cabinet cards and propaganda (15 June 2022)
682. Waiters, bartenders and barmaids (16 June 2022)
683. Roger Fenton in Russia in 1852 (17 June 2022)
684. Paper negatives and calotypes taken in the Indian subcontinent (20 June 2022)
685. The Cawnpore (Kanpur) Massacres 1857 (21 June 2022)
686. Iceland - Industry and landscapes (22 June 2022)
687. Milan (23 June 2022)
688. Colour rendition for different photographic processes (24 June 2022)
689. Urban centers, streets and buildings in South America (27 June 2022)
690. Photographic galleries of the world (28 June 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:

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Stereoscopy Day (21 June 2022) - Stereographs Project

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Photohistory Quests - Progress to date (21 June 2022)

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Video feeds, audio feeds, and enhanced media documents

Welcome

Stereoscopy Day (21 June 2022) - Stereographs Project

Interviews on Luminous-Lint - Explaining what is happening...

Moving forward at the same time as staying backwards

Photohistory Quests - Progress to date (21 June 2022)

Free Trial of Luminous-Lint

Recently updated Themes