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To the many hundreds of you that have signed up recently for this Newsletter welcome and I hope you find it informative. It highlights changes and additions to Luminous-Lint.
Luminous-Lint is a collaborative project to gradually weave together a coherent history of photography online. One of the key resources we‘ve never had is a thorough online history of photography and that is going to change this year with the assistance of a generously spirited author and an understanding publisher. Imagine a free online history of photography with hundreds of supporting exhibitions, over 30,000 illustrations and details on over 6,000 photographers and that is just for starters. This is very exciting so keep watching and I‘ll pass on further details when I can.
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James Nachtwey - Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB)
James Nachtwey speaks at the VII Seminar, in conjunction with the New York Photo Festival
Courtesy © 2008 Susan Katz
Famed war photographer James Nachtwey has brought the full force of his artistic vision and a brilliant international media campaign to bear on the underreported and ever-growing pandemic of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). Supported by the TED community (an organization of the world‘s cutting-edge thinkers and doers), the photographer is using his 2007 TED Prize to harness both the power of new media and his moving photos of worldwide XDR-TB victims. From large-scale, outdoor slideshow projections in the capitals of the world to a takeover of YouTube‘s home page, the photographs are alerting the international community to the entirely preventable spread of dangerously mutating and often lethal strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The word is getting out.
The XDR-TB project uses photography to promote awareness of an alarming health issue and is an example of photo-activism at its best. To see examples of the photographs, video clips and to learn more about how you can be involved read the article:
James Nachtwey & TED‘s creative campaign to fight the XDR-TB pandemic on the Photowings website.
The Recession or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Photographs!
Luminous-Lint takes a look at the Photographic Art Economy.
Since March 2008 the US S&P 500 fell 51%, the German DAX fell 41%, and the Japanese Nikkei 300 fell over 44%. With turmoil in the global financial markets seriously downgrading the value of traditional investment products, the need for more reliable alternative investment assets has never been more acute.... read complete article
NEW ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
The following exhibitions have been added to Luminous-Lint in last few weeks and there are some fascinating series here from little known collections and contemporary photographers:
Quite a list...
I‘m seeking examples for upcoming exhibitions:
- Nineteenth century Scientific expeditions
- Chess players, card players, gaming tables and gamblers
- Celluloid photo badges and early objects with photographs on them
- Photographic identity cards and badges
Refresh your spirit and soul with the subjects you love and join in when you can. Thanks to everybody who has assisted with these exhibitions and to all those around the world working away on the upcoming ones.
Luminous-Lint on the Internet |
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What‘s New on Luminous-Lint |
Roger Camp (1945, 19 February - ) was born - US, WA, La Crosse. Contemporary American photographer and educator.
Charles François Daubigny (1817, 15 February - 1878, 19 February) died - France, Paris. French landscape painter, etcher, wood engraver, lithographer with some surviving photographs. In 1904 the municipality of Auvers-sur-Oise erected a bronze monument in his memory. His grave is in Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise, Paris, France.
James E. Hinton Jr. (1936 - 2006, 19 February) died - US, NY, New York. American photographer and documentary film maker. His photographs of the social upheavals in the USA brought about by racial issues and the Vietnam War are significant social documents of a divisive period.
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