| Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 7.2 | April 25, 2013 | | | Home • What‘s New • Photographers • Online Exhibitions
Contents • Alphabetical • Styles and movements • Articles
Visual Indexes • Galleries & Dealers • Timelines • Techniques
Library • Contact us Welcome to another Luminous-Lint Newsletter.
If this is your first Luminous-Lint Newsletter |
Welcome - This newsletter is different from all previous ones as it concerns the next phase of Luminous-Lint. Here is the
last Newsletter - Vol 7.01 (February 10, 2013) and you can see others in the
Library. Do join in where you can to build better resources for all on the History of Photography.'
Over the coming month I‘ll be running a Kickstarter project to raise $50,000 to improve Luminous-Lint for all of us.
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Do you love photography?
Do you want to improve your understanding and enjoyment of photographs?
Want to help create the best website on the History of Photography?
Well, you’ve come to the right place.
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Passion, Enthusiasm and Community |
My personal passion is to learn the History of Photography and share what I’ve learned. This Kickstarter project is to expand and build on all we’ve already achieved.
The Story Begins With A Personal History….. |
About 10 years ago, I decided to learn the History of Photography. I had always been interested in it, but never had the time to do so properly. I created Luminous-Lint to share the huge amount of material I’ve collected and created.
Many thousands of you have watched this project evolve over the past decade. I have had the pleasure of getting to know some of you personally, and look forward to meeting more of you who share my enthusiasm for the History of Photography. A great many collectors, curators, estates of photographers, gallery owners and dealers around the world receive the Newsletters, which are all online.
The richness and depth of Luminous-Lint as a resource is astounding and this Kickstarter project will take us to the next level. I‘m excited about it and here is where you can join in.
A Brief Overview of Luminous-Lint |
So how far have we got?
- Luminous-Lint currently has more than 10 million page views a year (yes, you read correctly: more than 10 million).
- It is a free, vast and expanding non-commercial resource on all aspects of the History of Photography.
- It already includes more than 1,000 Themes, 700 Online exhibitions and 7,000 photographers.
- It has been created with contributions from more than 2,300 institutions, galleries, dealers and individuals.
- It includes many images that can be found nowhere else as they come from private collections around the world.
- Luminous-Lint is well-respected and has a well-proven track record - thanks to you all.
Take a look at the current website to see how far we have come:
... and these are just the tip of a very large iceberg. To get a sense of the scope of the project take a look at the Contents page. This project will concentrate on the Themes (and not the Geographical Regions or Techniques which will be covered later).
In the most recent Luminous-Lint Newsletter (February 2013) I announced that each Theme is starting to be filled out with examples from the most significant institutional and private collections around the world and this is rolling along with over 50,000 images added so far.
This Kickstarter project is to enrich the content on Luminous-Lint and continue to provide it free of charge to benefit us all.
If we educate ourselves and make friends along the way so much the better.
As I‘ve mentioned, there are currently over 1,000 Themes on Luminous-Lint . During this project I plan to:
- Ensure that we have representative photographs for each Theme.
- Ensure that the 700 online exhibitions are linked to each Theme.
- Integrate video materials where appropriate.
Within each Theme I will be developing texts, footnotes, reading lists, visual indexes, preparing additional online exhibitions where there are gaps. Where specialized texts are required experts (such as yourself) will be asked to assist. By the end of this project the structure of the Themes will be greatly improved and ready for the next step.
With Kickstarter it is all or nothing - either we make the $50,000 goal or we get nothing. With your support we - as a community - can make Luminous-Lint an outstanding free, and international, resource.
Your pledges are essential so help where you can.
If you have expertise on a specific area and are able to carry out research, improve the graphic design, add programming skills, provide examples from your collection or those of your institution, or can prepare content or share pieces you have already written please get in touch. Luminous-Lint is a collaborative project.
If you see the opportunities that Luminous-Lint is creating for education and scholarship and are able to do more to support then please contact me at alan@luminous-lint.com. There are a number of innovative and far-reaching projects that can be discussed.
You may want to sponsor a topic that you feel should be improved or included. If you are an expert in a particular Theme let me know and help out where you can – if not suggest a curator or photo-historian who might be able to assist.
I hope you will make a pledge as there are some great rewards including a Special Edition Print that fine art photographer Paul Biddle has graciously created for this project. Thanks Paul.
This print will be a significant part of the History of Photography as it will be the first print issued by Luminous-Lint and the first ever issued to support a crowdfunding project on the History of Photography. Don`t miss this opportunity as it will only be available during this project. Who knows what it will be worth in a few years....
All prints and their ownership will be logged on Luminous-Lint.
If you are a collector of photography this is the only opportunity to obtain this print.
Galleries and dealers
I have created a package of 5 of the special edition prints specifically for you. This is to allow you to market or gift them on to your clients as a unique thank you for the business they have given you over the years.
If you are pledging at the print level many thanks and I‘d be grateful if you would let me know right away so I can get you a bit of additional publicity.
It would be a nice gesture to let your collectors know about this opportunity as soon as possible as there are limited numbers available.
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All funds raised will be used to improve Luminous-Lint.
MAKE A PLEDGE
One Final Word... That Special Edition Print... |
Did I mention that the Special Edition Print will be a significant print in the History of Photography and possibly worth gazillions in the future? Don't say later on that I didn't tell you personally about it !!!
Thanks for taking a look at this project and I hope that you will pledge - and rest assured that I will do all I can to Help Build the History of Photography.
Best as always,
Alan
alan@luminous-lint.com
p.s. Thanks to all of you who have shared your photographs, knowledge and friendship along the way as Luminous-Lint has evolved.
As I always say...
SHARING MAKES THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. |
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815, 27 April - 1897, 21 May) was born - US, SC, Charleston. American-born Jewish painter and photographer of Spanish-Portuguese descent. He accompanied the 1853-1854 expedition of the explorer John C. Frémont through the territories of Kansas, Colorado, and Utah searching for a railroad route to the Pacific.More...
Bruno Chalifour (1956, 27 April - ) was born - France, Limoges. French-born photographer, educator and photo-historian.
Peter Keetman (1916, 27 April - ) was born - Germany, Wupperthal-Elberfeld. In April 1953 he photographed a Volkswagen factory and this series is amongst his most famous work.
Julius Adolph Paul Kuntze (1848, 27 April - 1905, 25 October) was born - Germany, Berlin. German photographer who worked with Gustav Adolph Selle.
Samuel F.B. Morse (1791, 27 April - 1872, 2 April) was born - US, MA, Charlestown. American inventor and painter. He met Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in Paris on 7th March 1839 and publicized the daguerreotype in the United States.
Jack Welpott (1923, 27 April - 2007, 24 November) was born - US, KS, Kansas City. American photographer.
Antoine Fauchery (1827? - 1861, 27 April) died - Japan, Yokohama. French photographer who arrived in Melbourne 2 November 1857 and worked as a photographer with a studio at 132 Collins Street East. He took high quality photographs of early Melbourne, the countryside of Victoria and the goldfields. In 1859 he went More...
Frederick Gutekunst (1831, 25 September - 1917, 27 April) died. American studio photographer mostly active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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