| Newsletter for Collectors - Vol 10.1 | January 10, 2016 | | | Home • What‘s New • Photographers • Online Exhibitions
Contents • Alphabetical • Styles and movements • Articles
Visual Indexes • Galleries & Dealers • Timelines • Techniques
Library • Contact us HAPPY NEW YEAR - Welcome to another Luminous-Lint Newsletter.
Happy 10th Anniversary - Yes we are 10... |
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Mikhail Kalshnikov & N. S. Troshin
Front cover for USSR in Construction, no. 7, The Twentieth Year of the Revolution
1937, july
Magazine cover
16 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 1/8 in. (41.9 x 30.8 x 0.3 cm)
International Center of Photography (ICP)
Museum Purchase, 2012, Accession No. 2012.13.46
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Last month was the 10th anniversary of the public announcement of Luminous-Lint on the Yahoo PhotoHistory list (message #6457) and how the years have rolled by. Along the way there have been many tests of ideas that have fallen by the wayside - these have included newsfeeds on photography and attempts to keep up with institutional exhibitions. These took too much time and were a distraction from essential work. The focus of the website has changed over the years - at first the preparation on Online Exhibitions was essential to build up the content quickly and to commence the organisation of photographs into coherent groupings. This resulted in hundreds of exhibitions on different aspects of photohistory.
The Online exhibitions are still a key part of Luminous-Lint but they do not go into photohistory at a fine enough level and so I'm now putting together Visual Indexes. This is an ongoing task and brings together images in different ways such as:
- The fronts and backs of images
- Similar images by different photographers
- Photographs taken in the same geographical location
- Photographs taken using the same process
- Photographs and the woodcuts, engravings and prints made from them
- etc etc...
There is really no limit to how visual indexes are used and they serve as a source of inspiration for photo-aficionados such as yourself.
Around January 2013 the most significant project on Luminous-Lint commenced and it was one I started with trepidation.
With the images well organized the Online Exhibitions and Visual Indexes could be placed into meaningful sequences for each of the the Themes within Photohistory. The Themes had been set up earlier as they were needed as categories to organise and retrieve content but now they had an enhanced purpose. Once the sequences of images were brought together texts could be added along with the supporting references and footnotes. This means that each Theme on photohistory gradually evolves into a book-like structure with links to all the other content on Luminous-Lint. When I started this in 2013 the Themes were naive but that is no longer the case and Luminous-Lint Subscribers will appreciate that they are improving rapidly and contain continually improving and well-researched detail.
So progress has been made over the last 10 years and there is still a long way to go. You can explore the discoveries so far by taking out a Subscription - and thanks to all of you who already have.
All the best for the next decade
Alan
Recent arrivals
Every day images are added in to Luminous-Lint from around the world and here are three that recently arrived. Thanks to Richard Hart, Nigel Maister and Marília Peres for these. Each is a piece of the puzzle of Photohistory. | 
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The pleasures of a good review... |
Bringing all the different parts of this project together is a continual fascination and each day I have no idea what will arrive in. Some time ago Lee Eltzroth dropped me an email to say she was going to prepare a review of Luminous-Lint - I said fine and answered any questions as they popped up. The review was posted on January 6th on her "Hunting and Gathering" blog as
Wednesday Website: Looking at Luminous-Lint. As a website creator you are never sure how you are doing so it was a pleasant surprise that I appear to be doing well and deserve applause - who knew?
Thanks to Lee for taking the time to investigate Luminous-Lint in such detail - we‘ve still got a long way to go but the content so far is pretty amazing and the material in the Themes is rich indeed. I note that the finest institutions, collectors and dealers have taken out subscriptions so I must be doing something right!
Courses at the George Eastman Museum |
George Eastman House Workshops
For those who want to understand and master historic processes. | 
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One of my regrets is that I've not attended any of the courses at the George Eastman Museum. Any budding photographer, teacher of photography or photohistorian interested in the historical processes, that are the bedrock of everything we are interested in, should take advantage of these opportunities. During 2016 there will be a wide-ranging selection given by Mark Osterman and Nick Brandreth including workshops on spirit photography, carbon tissue, ambrotypes, the American Ivorytype and many others. A course that will be of particular interest is the three-day workshop "Evolution of Photography" (2-4 November 2016) and I'm sure that will fill up quickly. For a list: Workshops
One further point - if you don't see the course you'd like to do contact Mark Osterman (mosterman@eastman.org) and he'll do everything he can to arrange it. He also gives courses around the world when there is sufficient demand.
George Eastman House Workshops
Thanks to Nick Brandreth for supplying these photographs of the 2015 workshops. | 
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Ephemera
Thanks to the 434 private collectors who share material with Luminous-Lint we now have large amounts of ephemera from around the world providing insights into how photography was created and marketed in the past. Thanks to Jan Hubicka, Jim Linderman and Pat Street for these examples. | 
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The Luminous-Lint PhotoHistory Visualizer (For subscribers) |
The PhotoHistory Visualizer (PhV) is available for Subscribers and behind its straightforward design there is a powerful tool for researchers. It has taken over a decade of research to locate images from all periods of photography to create swift pathways through the labyrinths of photohistory that are stored in thousands of scattered collections. The PhV highlights connections between images unexpected ways and allows you to quickly explore Dates, Themes, Technical processes, Date and Photographers.
Click on the image above to see a larger version
The example above shows a screenshot for a single photogram by László Moholy-Nagy and notice how on the right hand side in this truncated example the PhV offers suggestions for Dates, Photographers, Online Exhibitions etc that you might be interested in along with the Themes to further your research. These are finely tuned to provide the best possible results from around the world.
The information supporting the PhV is deeply layered and can be used to support interactive displays for exhibitions and research. If you are interested in collaborative projects to create new experiences for researchers or the public please contact me to discuss ideas - alan@luminous-lint.com
Requests for further information... |
Photography assimilated into popular culture
How photography has affected popular culture during different periods is fascinating. This Theme will include literature, poetry, painting, book covers, record sleeves and a host of related topics. At the moment this is a melting pot for ideas and I welcome your thoughts. | 
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The social life of photographs
This new Theme examines how photographs were marketed, sold, organized, stored and displayed right through history. This Theme includes advertising, sales catalogues, albums, framing and wall displays - examples from around the world will be much appreciated. | 
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Alain Fleischer (1944, 10 January - ) was born - France, Paris. French photographer and filmmaker.
Josef Koudelka (1938, 10 January - ) was born - Czechoslovakia, Moravia, Boskovice nr. Brno. Czech photojournalist working with Magnum. It was his work with gypsies that helped to establish his reputation.
Nathan Lyons (1930, 10 January - ) was born - US, NY, Jamaica. American photographer and teacher. Founder and director of the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY (USA).
F. Maxwell Lyte (1828, 10 January - 1906, 4 March) was born - Great Britain, Devon, Lower Brixham. Mining engineer by profession but a user and innovator of photographic processes. For health reasons he lived in France from 1853 until 1880 and became interested in photography in the company of John Stewart and Jean-Jacques Heilmann. He helped to More...
Will McBride (1931, 10 January - 2015, 29 January) was born - US, MO, St. Louis. American photographer.
B.J. Ochsner (1869, 10 January - 1953, 20 December) was born - US, WI, Prairie-du-Sac.
John Sanchez (1973, 10 January - ) was born - US, CA, Santa Barbara. American photographer who has done a series of portraits of artists and the art world.
John Nicholas Tressider (1819, 10 January - 1889, 27 May) was born.
Heinrich Zille (1858, 10 January - 1929, 9 August) was born - Germany, Radenburg nr Dresden. German painter, printmaker and photographer.
Major General James Graham Robert Douglas MacNeill (1842, 11 February - 1904, 10 January) died.
William Pearl (1832, October - 1899, 10 January) died - England, London.
Alfred Raquez (1865 - 1907, 10 January) died - France, Marseille. He travelled in China (Shanghai), Laos, Cambodia and Tonkin (Vietnam). Became editor of the Revue indochinoise and wrote articles on Laos that he illustrated with his own photographs. La Pagode (Decoly) of Saigon published many of his More...
Leon Van Loo (1841, 12 August - 1907, 10 January) died - US, OH, CIncinnati. Photographer, portrait painter, art collector - Born Ghent, Belgium, August 12, 1841. Active in Cincinnati from 1857 until retiring in 1866. Raised in Italy and Brazil, he attended college in Ghent, where he studied photography under Charles More...
Bradford Washburn (1910, 7 June - 2007, 10 January) died - US, MA, Lexington. Had a long relationship with National Geographic and accompanied many expeditions. Respected for his mountaineering photography and his aerial photography of remote areas.
In 1980 the Alexander Graham Bell Medal of the National More...
Marius De Zayas (1880, 13 March - 1861, 10 January) died - US, CT, Stamford. Mexican artist, writer and gallery owner who was involved with Camera Work and the artistic circle of Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession at "291" in New York. |
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