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Photography from the South to the North, Travels with Latitude (and attitude)

I've always enjoyed giving talks as it encourages me to slice through the content of Luminous-Lint in different ways.

About five years ago I gave a course of six lectures on Around the World in 80 Days - A Nineteenth Century Photographic Journey. In each lecture I talked about a part of the world that Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout were passing through and the photographs of that region at the time they were travelling. The photography of each country was so different because of the motivations, the sites and the political and socio-cultural changes that were happening. This course would make a splendid book if I ever had the time to write one.

Hippolyte Arnoux, "89. Bassin de Radoub Suez [Suez Canal, Egypt]", 1875 (ca), Albumen print, cropped, Interencheres - Lyon 14 January 2014, Tresors de la Photographie, Lot: 386
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I'm currently preparing for a talk at Princeton University on Photographically illustrated books in the Nineteenth Century - A New Light on the Visual. Fortunately this topic is addressed on the Luminous-Lint page Tipped-in photographs and books illustrated with photographs with 2,390 photographs and illustrations so I will have sufficient to make a selection.

Book cover for J. Forbes Watson & Hohn William Kaye (eds.), 1868-1875, The People of India, (London: India Museum / W.H. Allen & Co.), 1868-1875, Book cover, NYPL - New York Public Library, NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13409080
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In the fall of this year I will be giving a six week course entitled Photography from the South to the North, Travels with Latitude (and attitude). This will be another romp through photohistory with each lecture being a band of 30 degrees of latitude starting with the South Pole and ending at the North Pole. This will examine exploration, the peoples and sites of the world through photohistory. As the explorers, missionaries, exploiters of raw materials and photographers had diverse motives they certainly had attitudes and well as latitudes.

F. Jay Haynes, "The interior of the Haynes Palace Studio Car at Helena (M/T.)", 1886, Uncertain format, Creative Commons - Wikipedia
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This photograph was published with the following note in Edward W. Nolan Northern Pacific views: The railroad photography of F. Jay Haynes, 1876-1905 (Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 1983):

The reception room in the Palace Studio car displayed the wide variety of photograph types available to patrons. In addition to fancy frames, Haynes offered mammoth plate views of Yellowstone for sale. The sitting room was through the door to the left of the desk, and beyond that were the living quarters.

Luminous-Lint includes the resources for thousands of lectures on all aspects of photohistory so use it well. If you require suggestions, or require advice on resources for course planning, do let me know and I will be happy to assist.

Some statistics on Luminous-Lint

The saga continues...

Luminous-Lint uses 125,244 photographs from 4,027 different collections around the world to create detailed and well structured histories of photography.

Luminous-Lint includes 1,032 distinct, but interlinked, histories of photography that are evolving on a regular basis.

Details on 21,089 photographers, using 50,682 different names, are included on Luminous-Lint with examples whenever possible.

The connections between photographs are critical to understanding and Luminous-Lint includes 14,680 visual indexes to assist.

The granularity of photohistory becomes ever finer as the hundreds of millions of connections improve.

Photohistory Quests - Progress to date (7 February 2023)

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

PHOTOHISTORY QUESTS
NINTH SERIES (801-900)

801. Automatons, mechanical toys and other marvels (8 December 2022)
802. Opium (9 December 2022)
803. Stereo photography and propaganda (12 December 2022)
804. Your favorite AI created image (13 December 2022)
805. Stereographs taken by women photographers (14 December 2022)
807. "Signal" and German military propaganda during the Second World War (16 December 2022)
808. Venice (19 December 2022)
810. Bootblacks and shoeshines (21 December 2022)
811. Expedition photography in South America (22 December 2022)
812. Listening to the radio (24 December 2022)
813. Christmas Trees (26 December 2022)
814. Dolls (27 December 2022)
815. Pricing and price lists (28 December 2022)
816. Serbia (29 December 2022)
817. Nuns (30 December 2022)
818. Typologies of objects (2 January 2023)
819. The Maori of New Zealand (3 January 2023)
820. Stereoscopes for military aerial reconnaissance and damage assessment (4 January 2023)
821. Assistance with difficult to decipher backmarks (5 January 2023)
822. Statue of Sheikh el-Belad Representing Kaaper (6 January 2023)
823. The use of unauthorized cameras at the Front during the First World War (7 January 2023)
824. Group portraits and tourists at the Sphinx, Egypt (9 January 2023)
825. Walking for pleasure - rural strolling, hiking, trekking and rambling (11 January 2023)
826. Metallic objects (12 January 2023)
827. Playing with Meccano, Lincoln Logs and other construction toys (13 January 2023)
828. Cabinet cards with scientific subjects (16 January 2023)
829. Air Races (17 January 2023)
830. Destruction of railway infrastructure during war (18 January 2023)
831. Still lifes taken in Central and Eastern Europe (19 January 2023)
832. Greenhouses, Conservatories and Palm Houses (20 January 2023)
833. Bottles of any type (23 January 2023)
834. Two, or more, photographs taken at the same sitting (24 January 2023)
835. The ravaged landscapes of the Anthropocene (25 January 2023)
836. The Italian Lakes (26 January 2023)
837. New Objectivity - Neue Sachlichkeit (27 January 2023)
838. Agricultural landscapes (30 January 2023)
839. Benares, India (31 January 2023)
840. Humorous postcards related to photography (1 February 2023)
841. Tanzania, Zanzibar and the region (2 February 2023)
842. Flowers in vases (3 February 2023)
843. Hand-coloured Daguerreotype portraits (6 February 2023)
844. Hand-coloured salt print portraits (7 February 2023)

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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Photography from the South to the North, Travels with Latitude (and attitude)

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Welcome

Photography from the South to the North, Travels with Latitude (and attitude)

Some statistics on Luminous-Lint

Photohistory Quests - Progress to date (7 February 2023)

Free Trial of Luminous-Lint

Educational subscriptions

Recently updated Themes