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WELCOME
Luminous-Lint went a bit quiet over the summer as I had a holiday catching up with friends. I hope you are all refreshed again and ready for future projects. Thanks again for your support and enthusiasm, Alan
NEW ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
- Postcards with a message (1980-2000) These postcards are a visual snapshot from about 1980 until around 2000. They combine photographs, images, graphics and texts to get their message across.
The postcards in this online exhibition are shown under the Fair Use provisions of Copyright Law for educational non-commercial purposes. I‘ve not been able to contact, or have not received replies from, all the people and organisations whose work is included. If any publisher, artist, photographer or copyright holder would like an image removed please let me know and I‘ll do it as quickly as possible. No commercial use whatever can be made of these images.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on Photomontage include:
- The Gernsheim Collection This online exhibition coincides with the exhibition Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection at the Harry Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe Streets, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
September 7, 2010—January 2, 2011
- Portrait: The Unknown Sitter - African American Portraits of the 1860s-1880s As the prices for photographic prints declined through the nineteenth century portraits became available for everybody. Studios proliferated within even the smallest centers of population and itinerant photographers travelled in wagons and by train to seek business opportunities wherever they could. With paper-based photographs, such as salted paper or albumen prints, information on the sitter could be written directly upon the paper if required but with those on glass (ambrotypes) or metal (Daguerreotypes, tintypes otherwise known as ferrotypes, melainotypes or Neff plates) a label had to be affixed or the details scratched onto the plate. This was rarely done and so by far the majority of Daguerreotype and tintype portraits are of unknown sitters. Without a knowledge of the sitter or the photographer it can be difficult to establish dates or historical context to advance scholarship.
To raise awareness of this issue this online exhibition shows a collection of portraits of African American sitters in the collection of Princeton University Library that were presumably taken between the 1860s and the 1880s in the United States. We welcome these images being shared to assist in the identification of any of the sitters and the photographers involved.
Julie L. Mellby - jmellby@princeton.edu, Graphic Arts Library, Princeton University Library
A related Luminous-Lint exhibition on African Americans:
- Painting on photographs: A 19th century perspective
The artist that rubs out the freckles from a lady‘s photograph, blots out truth and substitutes falsehood. If the conscience of society is not above the approval of such things, it is because artists have educated society down to that level. A true artist owes it to himself to be truthful. If artists would spend as much pains trying to bring out the living realism of nature as they do in trying to improve nature, both art and morals would be vastly the gainers.
(Rev. W.P. M‘Nary "Art as a Teacher" in The Evangelical Repository, First Series, Vol.LVI, No.11, April 1880, p.365-366)
- Painting on photographs: Supporting materials To improve this online exhibition I am seeking boxes of photographic colours (colouring kits), photographs or engravings of colourists at work, advertisements for colourists and nineteenth century trade catalogues.
- Scientific: 19th Century Expeditions The Introduction includes the table "Expeditionary Fields of Inquiry Objectives, Artists’ Subjects and Pictorial Information" taken from Roger Balm’s essay, "Expeditionary Art: An Appraisal" (Geographical Review, October 2000).
This online exhibition makes no claim to being comprehensive given the vast number of expeditions that were carried out during the 19th century. The intention is rather to stimulate interest in this area for more a complete survey of the subjects. Within this exhibition there are images that will be new to most visitors.
Future additions to this exhibition will include photographs relating to:
- Heinrich Barth and his work with the Central African Mission (1849-1855)
- John Hanning Speke and the search for the source of the Nile (1857-1863)
- Robert O‘Hara Burke and his crossing of Australia (1860-1861)
- Francis Garnier and the Mekong River Expedition (1866-1868), the travels of Commander Doudart de Lagrée and the expeditions of Henri Mouhot (1826-1861) one of the first Westerners to visit Angkor
- Nikolai Przhevalsky, remembered for the wild horses named after him, whose expeditions led to a far greater understanding of Central Asia (1871-1888)
- Charles Doughty and his memorable travels in "Arabia Deserta" (1876-1878)
- The Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and the North East Passage (1878-1879)
- Francis Younghusband (1863-1942) and his work in Tibet
- Mary Kingsley and her explorations in West Africa (1893-1895)
If you have a series on these, or any other scientific expeditions, I‘d be fascinated to learn about it.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on 19th century Scientific Expeditions include:
- Documentary: 19th century Charles Nègre and the Vincennes Imperial Asylum The following contemporary account was published on the "Imperial Asylum at Vincennes for Convalescent Workman" The Medical News and Library, Vol.XVIII, December, 1860, No. 216, p.184-185
Imperial Asylum at Vincennes for Convalescent Workman. - The Moniteur Universal of the 9th of July contains an interesting account of the convalescent hospital, established by the Emperor of the French, in the neighbourhood of Paris, from which we extract the following particulars: —
The Asylum of Vincennes was founded by a decree of the 8th March, 1855, for the temporary reception, during their convalescence, of workmen who had received injuries or contracted diseases. The building having been finished, and the internal arrangements completed, the inauguration of the Imperial Asylum took place on the 31st of August, 1857. It has now been in operation for nearly three years.
- Documentary: 19th century William Notman and the Victoria Bridge, Montreal, QC, Canada (1858-1860) The Victoria Bridge in Montreal was one of the great engineering feats of the nineteenth century and the construction was photographed by William Notman.
- Documentary: 19th century Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Lives As the quality of the halftone images in the nineteenth century books of Jacob Riis are poor I‘m seeking scans of photographs.
As an introduction to this exhibition I‘ve included a report on a lecture Jacob Riis gave to The Society of Amateur Photographers that Jacob Riis gave on 25th January 1888 as given in The Photographic Times and American Photographer (Vol.XVIII, February 3, 1888, No.333, p.58-59).
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on 19th century documentary photography:
- Photograms An evolving survey of the photograms. If you have additional examples I would be most interested as I would like to build up a reference set.
- 19th Century Photographic Studios: Supplies This online exhibition makes no claim to be exhaustive but rather provides a starting point for more detailed investigations of the companies that provided the cameras, lenses, instruments, chemicals and supplies to the expanding photography industry through the nineteenth century.
Related Luminous-Lint exhibitions on 19th century photographic studios:
I‘m seeking examples for future online exhibitions:
- Bauhaus - The photographic courses and works of the Bauhaus.
- 19th century documentary projects - Exhibitions on the documentary work of Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives), William Notman (Victoria Bridge, Montreal, QC, Canada) and Charles Nègre (Vincennes Imperial Asylum) have recently been added. I‘m still seeking documentary studies.
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