| Feb 25, 2008 | Japanese Art Photography preserved on Postcards | |
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On this website we have included many of the leading photographers of 19th century Japan including Felice Beato (ca. 1825 - ca. 1908), Baron Raimund von Stillfried (1839-1911) and Adolfo Farsari (1841-1898) and included exhibitions on Japan in the 19th century and Japanese Ambrotypes. This exhibition takes us into the little studied area of the pictorial photographs by anonymous Japanese photographers taken in the first few decades of the twentieth century.
Thanks to Rob Oeschle for kindly providing this exhibition.
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Exhibition: Japanese Art Photography preserved on Postcards
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| Feb 19, 2008 | Improvements to Luminous-Lint | |
| | Over the coming weeks there will quite a number of significant enhancements to the website that will improve the ways in which you can find information. There will also be some exciting additional resources added to the site but more on those later...
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| Feb 16, 2008 | Joel Salcido: Spain - Millenium Past | |
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As Joel Salcido writes:
"My photography depicts a Spain of soulful traditions that include fiestas and brave bulls; both visually elegant and poetic. These images were perhaps meant to be painted but instead became photographs. May Spain remain forever odd, precarious and precious."
Spain has an extremely rich photographic history as the book 150 Years of Photography in Spain (Lunwerg, 2000) by the Spanish photo-historian Publio López Mondéjar attests. The same intertwined religious and secular traditions that Joel documents have been recorded by pictorialists such as José Ortiz-Echagüe (1886-1980) whose photographic archive at the University of Navarra must be one of the finest photographic legacies left to any country.
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Exhibition: Joel Salcido: Spain - Millenium Past
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| Feb 15, 2008 | The Photomicroscopy of Carl Strüwe (1898–1988) | |
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Prof. Gottfried Jäger of the Carl Strüwe-Archiv (Bielefeld, Germany) has graciously provided this series of microphotographs by the German graphic designer Carl Heinrich Jakob Strüwe (1898–1988).
From the earliest days of photography the scientific potential was appreciated and Henry Fox Talbot took examples of specimens with microscopes as did John William Draper and René Patrice Proudhon Dagron. Joseph Janvier Woodward in the USA used microphotography at the time of the American Civil War to document his scientific research and later the French photographer Laure Albin-Guillot took color microphotographs to reveal abstractions within nature.
Carl Strüwe spent his career as a graphic designer and this shows in his photographs - at first they were unmanipulated representations of magnified natural forms but when he combined these using multiple exposure and solarization they morphed from capturing an accurate image into photographs concerned with graphical impact. With the plants of Karl Blossfeldt in Urformen Der Kunst. Photographische Pflanzenbilder (Berlin, 1928) it was about recording the actual shapes of plants as a source of study with Carl Strüwe it was increasingly about visual impact and the later microphotographs such as Crystals (Komposition aus Kristallen) (1947) and Kalkkörper vom Seewurm - Synapta (Anker-Komposition) (1952) clearly show this.
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Exhibition: Scientific: Photomicroscopy of Carl Strüwe (1898–1988)
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| Feb 8, 2008 | Amy Stein: Domesticated | |
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The series Domesticated by Amy Stein examines the relationships between the human and animal worlds as they mingle...
The photographs in this series are constructed based on real stories from local newspapers and oral histories of intentional and random interactions between humans and animals. The narratives are set in and around Matamoras, a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania that borders a state forest.
Thanks to Amy for being kind enough to provide this series.
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Exhibition: Amy Stein: Domesticated
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| Feb 7, 2008 | Irving Penn - The Small Trades acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum | |
| | The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired the master set of The Small Trades series taken by Irving Penn. The series was started in 1950-51 as an assignment for Vogue in Paris but became an ongoing project. In all 252 portraits were taken depicting skilled workers in their work clothes and with their tools. The Getty is planning a book and an exhibition for September 2009.
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| Feb 7, 2008 | Robert Gardner: Borroro male beauty | |
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"There was a little dancing in the morning but virtually none last night. All I have done is to make a few Polaroid SX-70 portraits of the younger males. A Polaroid made is most likely a photograph lost, so intent are the subjects on possessing them. I had the idea of doing a series on the male dancers to see if there was any agreement about what set of facial features defined the ideal Borroro. But I have been unable to keep more than a few of the many I have made."
[Ethnographic fieldnotes of Robert Gardner, August 23rd 1978, Niger]
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Exhibition: Robert Gardner: Borroro male beauty
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| Feb 5, 2008 | Vernacular photography: Photobooths | |
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Welcome to the private world of the photobooth. Those who saw the 2001 French film 'Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain', better known by the shorter title of 'Amélie', starring Audrey Tautou will remember that part of the story resolves around torn up photobooth portraits. In this exhibition we may not know the people involved but these small images can be amusing and strange. Over recent years the interest in these has grown and there are now a number of books including examples:
Nakki Goranin (Author); & David Halberstitch (Foreword) American Photobooth (W. W. Norton, 2008)
Babbette Hines Photobooth (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002)
Babbette Hines Photobooth - 30 Postcards (Chronicle books, 2005) This includes examples from the book Photobooth (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002)
MTV MTV Photobooth (Universe Books, 2002)
Brett Ratner (Photographer); & Robert Evans (Introduction) Hilhaven Lodge: The Photo Booth Pictures (powerHouse Books, 2003)
Thanks to the galleries, dealers and private collectors who have provided examples. I'd like to expand this exhibition so if you have intriguing examples send them through. For the photobooth enthusiasts I'd like to add a solid historical introduction on the photobooth.
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Exhibition: Vernacular photography: Photobooths
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| Feb 4, 2008 | John Cleary the Houston gallery owner died on Friday Feb 1, 2008 | |
| | I'm sad to report that John Cleary died last Friday. He had a large personal collection of 1,200 photographs of children including works by Ansel Adams and Henri Cartier-Bresson. His gallery on 2635 Colquitt Street in Houston hosted many exhibitions including those by André Kertész, Brett Weston and Henry Horenstein.
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| Feb 4, 2008 | My Lint - Under development | |
| | My Lint is currently under development and will be a secure and personalized area of Luminous-Lint. My Lint will customize Luminous-Lint to your interests. For example, it will update you on the photographers you collect, tell you about events and auctions and provide you with availability of specific photographs and rare books. It will help you build, refine and dispose of collections by putting you in touch with the precise organizations and people that can assist. My Lint will be your portal to the world of Fine Photography.
My Lint will be all about you - if you have ideas for widgets and information that would be incredibly useful, enhance your interest in photography and be enjoyable send me an email and I‘ll try to oblige. There will be exciting news on this in future so keep watching... alan@luminous-lint.com
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