Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Photography and mining |
| 2 | Mining towns, infrastructure and impact |
| 3 | Miners |
| Gold |
| 4 | Californian Gold Rush (1848-1855) |
| 5 | Alaskan Gold Rush (1896-1899) |
| 6 | Thomas Houseworth & Co: Nevada |
| 7 | Walter Woodbury: Australian goldfields (1850s) |
| 8 | Carleton Eugene Watkins: Mining Claims, Butte County, Cal. |
| Diamonds |
| 9 | South Africa: Diamond mining areas around Kimberley and Griqualand-West |
| 10 | Antoine Fauchery & Richard Daintree: Australia: Goldfields in Victoria (1858) |
| 11 | Unidentified photographer: South African Gold Mining - Durban Roddepoort Deep Mine |
| Fossil fuels |
| 12 | Introduction to oil and gas extraction |
| 13 | Lufkin: Lufkin's Photographic Views - Oil Regions of Pennsylvania |
| 14 | West & Waddell: Stereoscopic views of the Pennsylvania Oil Regions. (1860-1890) |
| 15 | W. Kochne & Co.: Oilfields, Azerbaijan (ca 1883) |
| 16 | Gustave Marissiaux: La Houillère (1904-1905) |
| 17 | Lewis W. Hine: Coal mines |
| 18 | Unidentified photographer: Im Pütt (1953) |
| 19 | Bill Brandt: North |
| 20 | Chris Killip: Seacoal (1983-1984) |
| 21 | Robert Yarnall Ritchie: Commercial Modernist |
| 22 | Carl Uytterhaegen: Cité3 |
| Mining in South America |
| 23 | Mining in Bolivia (1870s-1930s) |
| 24 | Roberto M. Gerstmann: Mining in Bolivia |
| 25 | Henry Moulton: Rays of Sunlight from South America (1865) |
| Other types of mining |
| 26 | Timothy O'Sullivan: The mines of Nevada (ca. 1868) |
| 27 | Luis Boudat Ducollier: Album de las Salitreras de Tarapaca (1889) |
| 28 | J.C. Burrow: Mongst Mines and Miners; or Underground scenes by flash-light (1893) |
| Quarrying |
| 29 | Edward Burtynsky: Quarries |
