Photography has never been a simple mirror of reality; it has always been a site of intervention and alchemy. From Victorian spirit photography to the solarizations of the Surrealists, Luminous-Lint explores the history of the "unseen" and the technical manipulations that pushed the medium beyond its limits.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to experimental and manipulated photography |
| Removal of distracting elements |
| 2 | Manipulating negatives |
| Trick photography |
| 3 | Bust or statuette portraits |
| 4 | Multiple portraits taken using mirrors (Multigraphs or mirror portraits) |
| 5 | Decapitated heads |
| 6 | Spirit photography |
| 7 | Reduction |
| 8 | People in bottles |
| 9 | Photo caricatures |
| 10 | Photograms of seaweed |
| 11 | Stamps and stamp portraits |
| 12 | Electrical photographs |
| 13 | Crayon daguerreotypes and vignettes |
| 14 | The simulation of night |
| Composite and combination prints |
| 15 | Composite and combination prints: Defined |
| 16 | C.W. Applegreen creates a composite photograph |
| Distortions |
| 17 | Introduction to distortions |
| 18 | Louis Ducos du Hauron: Transformiste (Distortions) |
| Reflections |
| 19 | Reflections in water |
| Softening portraits |
| 20 | The softening technique of Andrei Denier |
| Composite portraits |
| 21 | Composite and combination prints: Portraits |
| Cliché verre |
| 22 | Cliché verre |
| Painting on photographs |
| 23 | Introduction to painting on photographs |
| 24 | Nineteenth century Japanese artists and colourists |
| 25 | John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong |
| Photojournalism and painting on photographs |
| 26 | Press photographs with paint or instructions |
| Photograms |
| 27 | Photograms |
| Solarization |
| 28 | Introduction to solarization |
| 29 | Examples of solarization |
| 30 | Edmund Teske: Duotone solarizations |
| Mordançage |
| 31 | Mordançage examples |
| Sculptural forms |
| 32 | Working with paper and card |
| Exaggeration photo postcards |
| 33 | Exaggeration postcards |
| 34 | William H. Martin: Exaggeration photo postcards |
| Polaroids |
| 35 | Experimental and manipulated Polaroids |
| 36 | Ellen Carey: Pulls |
| Photographers |
| 37 | Juan Pedro Chabalgoity: Photo-collages on cartes de visite (ca 1875) |
| 38 | Hannah Maynard: Self portraits |
| 39 | Alexander Rodchenko: Using different viewpoints |
| 40 | Francis Bruguière: Cathedral montages |
| 41 | Roger Parry: Banalité (1930) |
| 42 | Nathan Lerner and the New Bauhuas, Chicago |
| 43 | Frederick R. Archer: Experimental works |
| 44 | Francis Bruguière: Cut-paper abstractions |
| 45 | Man Ray: Solarized nudes |
| 46 | Man Ray: Les vois lactées (1974) |
| 47 | Lotte Jacobi: Photogenics |
| 48 | Carl-Heinz Chargesheimer: Experimental photography |
| 49 | Heinz Hajek-Halke: Experimental photography |
| 50 | Kurt Wendlandt: Lichtgraphik |
| 51 | Jaroslav Rössler: Abstractions |
| 52 | Milos Korecek: Abstractions (Fokalke) |
| 53 | Edmund Kesting: Ein Maler sieht durch's Objektiv (1958) |
| 54 | Weegee: Kaleidoscopic photographs |
| 55 | Frederick Sommer: Cut paper |
| 56 | Henry Holmes Smith: Portfolio Two, Center for Photographic Studies |
| 57 | Ladislav Postupa: Experimental vision |
| Cinema and experimental photography |
| 58 | Dziga Vertov:The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) |
| Integrity |
| 59 | Image integrity in documentary photography and photojournalism |
