| Jul 20, 2008 | George Eastman House on Flickr | | | | I'm absolutely delighted to be informed tonight that George Eastman House with its quite remarkable photographic holdings is now adding sections from their collections onto Flickr. To start with three online sets have been added:
- Chusseau - Flaviens
- Southworth & Hawes
- Autochromes
http://flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/
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| | Jul 20, 2008 | Newsletter 2.10 - July 20, 2008 has been emailed | | | | Luminous-Lint Newsletter 2.10 - July 20, 2008 has been emailed to all those on our mailing list and you can subscribe to these free newsletters if you haven't already done so.
Past issues of the newsletter are in the library on the Luminous-Lint website.
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| | Jul 18, 2008 | Stereo images: Storage and display | | | |
There are so many online exhibitions that it is difficult to select favourites but I've noticed how consistently popular this one is and I thought I'd share it with you all again. Here we can see the different ways of storing, displaying and viewing stereo images along with contemporary photographs of the diverse systems in use. So many people have given permission to include images on Luminous-Lint that at times they don't get the full credit they deserve in improving our understanding and at the same time affording us such pleasure - so here is to all of you.
If people are interested we can consider creating online reference catalogues of the different viewers - Holmes-Bates, Brewster, table top stereoscopes, Graphoscopes etc. Get in touch if this is an idea that appeals. alan@luminous-lint.com
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Exhibition: Stereo images: Storage and display
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| | Jul 14, 2008 | Over 400 online exhibitions now running on Luminous-Lint | | | | In March 2006 I added the first exhibition to Luminous-Lint on Harry Lapow: Coney Island and New York using photographs kindly provided by his daughter, this was followed by one on Autochromes: Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud and from these tentative beginnings the content on this website has grown. I just noticed that there are now over 400 online exhibitions on this website and this is quite a milestone - the exhibitions cover a vast range from the history of photography and have been provided by photographers, estates, private collectors, museums, local historical societies, publishers, galleries and a host of others. Over the years better indexes have been created and the content is slowly being linked into the available texts on photo-history. It is far from perfect but we've achieved an amazing amount in less than 30 months.
So many thanks to all of you for participating and sharing your collections and knowledge.
Now let's see what we can do in the next 30 months.....
Alan
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| | Jul 14, 2008 | Abstract: Distortions | | | |
A new exhibition on distortions has just been added to Luminous-Lint.
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
distort
–verb (used with object)
- to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed.
- to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent: to distort the facts.
The online exhibition is a part of the larger series of exhibitions on diverse forms of abstraction:
Abstract: Abstraction of the Real
Abstract: Viewpoint: Above
Abstract: Viewpoint: Below
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Exhibition: Abstract: Distortions
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| | Jul 13, 2008 | Still life: Eggs | | | |
“When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more,
you must end up with an egg.”
Pablo Picasso
(Spanish Artist, 1881-1973)
Many thanks to all the museums, galleries, dealers and collectors who are supplying images for this exhibition.
With special thanks to:
William Coupon, Jefferson Hayman, Beth Hinrichs, T.O. Immisch (Stiftung Moritzburg), Jens Knigge, Mikhail Kudish, Anne Arden McDonald, Vik Muniz, Burton Pritzker, Ron Reeder, Franziska Schmidt (Villa Grisebach Auktionen GmbH), Vivienne Silver-Brody, David Spahr, Dick Swift, Maggie Taylor and Jerry N. Uelsmann
for additional photographs, information leads and advice.
If you can assist in locating images of eggs by Aenne Biermann, Hans Finsler, Walter Peterhans or other notable photographers not included in this exhibition I would be most appreciative. This exhibition will evolve as other intriguing examples appear and I'm particularly seeking 19th century examples.
Alan Griffiths
alan@luminous-lint.com
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Exhibition: Still-life: Eggs
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| | Jul 11, 2008 | Kamil Vojnar: Flying Blind | | | |
"I am trying to explore corners of our souls, where emotions reside. Emotions as reactions to the world outside and conflicting emotions of our most private worlds within. Because don't we cry from immense sadness, but from happiness as well? " (Kamil Vojnar)
Thanks to Kamil Vojnar and the Verve Gallery of Photography for their assistance with this exhibition.
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Exhibition: Kamil Vojnar: Flying Blind
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| | Jul 10, 2008 | Rena Small: Artist's Hands | | | |
Following the online exhibition Portraits: Parts of body: Hands that went up on Luminous-Lint in June 2008 I was contacted by Rena Small about a series of photographs that she has been taking for over twenty years of the hands of artists.
As Rena relates in her introduction:
"...their hands move unconsciously while we talk shop about their work, ideas, passions from their heart and I listen, respond as the elements of performance art are activated in the art making process too. My role is to simply stop them when I observe the gestures that are crucial for some unknown reasons. That is the art of it for me, those unknown moments of reason."
With grateful thanks to Rena and all the artists who have participated in this project since 1984 and for their permission to include their thoughts and reflections.
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Exhibition: Rena Small: Artist's Hands
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| | Jul 10, 2008 | Luminous-Lint on the Internet | | | | Although this website is the bedrock of Luminous-Lint there are other pieces developing on the Internet that you might wish to explore and participate in. These including Facebook and YouTube.
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| | Jul 7, 2008 | A Biographical Index of Daguerreotypists in Canada 1839-1871 | | | | There is a new CD book entitled "A Biographical Index of Daguerreotypists in Canada 1839-1871" by Graham W. Garrett. The CD is a PDF file with multiple indexes containing 465 pages of intense research - including examples, biographical information with where advertisements were placed, and finding aids. For anybody with a serious interest in North American Daguerreotypes this will prove a highly useful resource.
This item (Cat. No. CA0246) can be purchased for $55 (presumably plus shipping and handling) from:
Archive CD Books Canada Inc.
President: Malcolm Moody
PO Box 11
Manotick
Ontario, K4M 1A2
Canada.
(613) 692-2667
info@archivecdbooks.ca
www.ArchiveCDBooks.ca
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