| Feb 18, 2009 | PhotoWings feature article on James Nachtwey - extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) | | | |
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.
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| | Feb 11, 2009 | Egypt, The Pyramids and other archaeological sites | | | |
This new exhibition examines photographs of the archaeological sites of Egypt taken in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and it includes works by Antonio Beato, Émile Béchard, Henri Béchard, P. Dittrich, Hippolyte Arnoux, Gustave Le Gray, Frank Good, the Zangaki Brothers, Félix Bonfils, Pascal Sebah, Félix Teynard, Maxime Du Camp, Henry Cammas, Francis Frith, Negretti & Zambra and numerous others. There are the familiar angles of the pyramids but as the photographs are shown together one notices trends such as the exposure of the Sphinx over time and the clichéd shots of tourists clambering up the pyramids.
With thanks to all the curators, auction houses, galleries and private collectors who have assisted in providing examples.
OZYMANDIAS
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1818
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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| | Feb 9, 2009 | Still-life: Apples | | | |
One of the most popular online exhibitions we put up on Luminous-lint was Still-life: Pears and I've always felt the fruit bowl was lacking variety so here are the apples. The French painter Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is credited with the line “With an apple I will astonish Paris.” and I hope there are a few slices here to encourage thought. Further examples of well-known and original photographs most welcome to complement this series.
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| | Feb 7, 2009 | John Hannavy: Great Photographic Journeys | | | |
John Hannavy followed in the steps of William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, Francis Frith, Charles Kinnear, Thomas Melville Raven, John Thomson, and Samuel Bourne for his book "Great Photographic Journeys – in the footsteps of Pioneer British Photographers" (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008). The domes of the Cathedral of the Assumption, Moscow that were photographed by Roger Fenton in 1852 were revisited along with the ruins of the mighty temple in Karnak, Egypt recorded on a wet plate collodion negative by Francis Firth. In his book ‘Egypt and Palastine photographed and described' (1859) Francis Firth wrote:
"When I reflect upon the circumstances under which many of the photographs were taken, I marvel greatly that they turned out so well. Now in a smothering little tent, my collodion fizzling – boiling up all over the glass the moment it touched – and, yet again, pushing my way backwards on my hands and knees, into a damp, slimy rock tomb to manipulate, – it is truly marvelous that the results should be presentable at all."
Many thanks to John Hannavy for providing this exhibition and I'd like to hear from others who have revisited the locations where notable photographs have been taken. Best, Alan
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| | Feb 5, 2009 | Pine & Woods: The American Typologies | | | |
On Luminous-Lint we've been fortunate with collectors and dealers who handle vernacular photographs and this exhibition assembles typologies but I'll let the artists Pine & Woods speak for themselves:
We are photo-based artists currently living and working in the Southern California area. We have, for the last ten years collaborated on a series of works, The American Typologies, composed of found photographs. The size and content of each Typology varies and is largely based on Middle America at mid 20th century. Our work depends for its strength on the preferences of two minds and four eyes.
Putting order to chaos is an integral part of our working process. We have assembled an archive in the tens of thousands of images. It is from this cataloged archive that our art is achieved. Finished works can take several months and result from the painstaking process of picking and choosing, arranging and rearranging. Each work is unique and can range in size from 36" x 36" to 72" x 72"containing from 9 to 36 images.
Thanks to Pine & Woods for their patience during my recent move.
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| | Feb 4, 2009 | Portrait: Beggars | | | |
To get things rolling again on Luminous-Lint after my move to Canada here is an exhibition of photographs of beggars. The Italian author and satirical journalist Giovanni Guareschi (1908-1968) best known for his Don Camillo books wrote:
"When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger."
We are seeking further examples for this exhibition and would be particularly interested in Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, albumen prints and tintypes depicting beggars.
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| | Feb 4, 2009 | George Eastman House Exhibition on pictorialism (Feb 7- May 31, 2009) | | | | Truth Beauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art: 1845-1945
Exhibition opens Feb. 7 and continues until May 31, 2009 - George Eastman House
Take in the beauty of more than 100 treasures from the Eastman House collections. Featuring works by such well-known photographers as Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Demachy, Frederick Evans, and F. Holland Day, this remarkable exhibition illustrates the Pictorialism movement's progression from its early influences to its lasting impact on photography and art. TruthBeauty curator and author Alison Nordström will provide a gallery tour of the exhibition on Thursday, Feb. 19, 6:30 p.m.
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Background information on Pictorialism
Thanks to the attentive support of collectors, particularly Photoseed, and galleries Luminous-Lint has been able to mount a number of online exhibitions that include many of the key publications on pictorialism along with exhibitions on significant photographers and schools. For those of you that see Camera Work as the most significant publication this will be a treat and a revelation as the less well known European publications started almost ten years earlier.
Publications
A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1895 (London)
Kodak Portfolio: Souvenir of the Eastman Photographic Exhibition 1897
Alfred Stieglitz: Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies (1897)
Die Kunst in der Photographie (1897)
Die Kunst in der Photographie (1898)
Die Kunst in der Photographie (1899)
Die Kunst in der Photographie (1900)
Die Kunst in der Photographie (1901)
Die Kunst in der Photographie (1897-1908)
G.L. Arlaud: Vingt Études de Nu en Plein Air
Gustave Marissiaux: Visions d’Artistes (1908)
Japanese pictorialism: Bunka Shashin-shu (1922)
Première Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1894 (The Photo-Club de Paris)
Deuxième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1895 (The Photo-Club de Paris)
Troisième Exposition d'Art Photographique - 1896 (The Photo-Club de Paris)
Quatrième Année Salon de Photographie - 1897 (The Photo-Club de Paris)
Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien (1894)
Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien (1896)
American Pictorialism: Camera Work (1903-1917)
Photographers and schools
A. Aubrey Bodine: Baltimore Pictorialist
The Clarence H. White School of Photography
Themes
Erotica: A Pictorialist perspective
Flowers: A Pictorialist perspective
Trees: A Pictorialist perspective
Portraits: A Pictorialist perspective
Japanese Art Photography preserved on Postcards
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| | Feb 1, 2009 | Andrew Garn: Magnitogorsk | | | |
Most of us have everyday lives far removed from that of heavy industry and at times in my life I've worked for large conglomerates such as Firestone Tyres and in the cable and wire rope works of Bridon in the UK. There is a magnificence in heavy industry despite the grime and often terrible working conditions - the scale is awesome and the ingenuity that can create immense plants stretches the mind. The recording of working conditions has a long tradition in documentary photography and it was common in the earliest Daguerreotypes to record workers with the tools of their trades - painters with their brushes, miners with shovels and picks and so on. Lewis Hine recorded aspects of child labor in the USA and the Bernd & Hilla Becher the typologies of industrial buildings. On this website there already exhibitions on the industrial remains of Eastern Europe recorded by Bruce Haley and the English industrial decay photographed by John Darwell.
In this online exhibition New York based photographer Andrew Garn takes us to Magnitogorsk in Russia.
The Magnitogorsk Metal Kombinat (MMK), built in the late 1920s during Stalin's Five Year Plan, is the largest steel plant in the world today. The sheer vastness and architectural complexity of this Siberian metal city, conceived with the ambition to become the "Pittsburgh of the East", is unparalleled throughout the world. An important record of political, social and manufacturing history, Magnitogorsk is also a feat of engineering and socialist ideals. The Russian steel plant, constructed on an uninhabited barren and hostile plain near the Ural River and a mountain rich in iron ore, stretches for over thirteen miles. By comparison, the great US Steel plant in Pittsburgh, PA, was a third of this size.
Thanks to Andrew Garn for his assistance with this exhibition.
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| | Jan 25, 2009 | Graphoscopes | | | |
As the photograph of the day is a graphoscope I thought that I would share a few other examples with you. Graphoscopes are magnifying viewers used largely in the 19th century. They consist of two parts - an easel to hold the image be it a photograph, engraving, object or piece of text and one large magnifying lens or two smaller ones. Charles John Rowsell of Stockwell Villas, South Lambeth Road, Surrey in England patented the first stereographoscope on February 1, 1864 in England for "Improvements in apparatus for viewing photographic and other pictures, coins, and medals, which is also applicable in the production of drawings and paintings." and versions of this magnifying viewer were made by notable optical instrument makers including Negretti and Zambra.
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Exhibition: Stereo images: Storage and display
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| | Jan 25, 2009 | Giacomo Brunelli: Animals | | | |
Some time ago we put up an exhibition of the work of Giacomo Brunelli and I'm pleased to see that Dewi Lewis has published a book on his work. The Animals with a foreword by Alison Nordström of George Eastman House. (Hardback, clothbound 72 pages, 33 tritone photographs, 300mm x 247mm, ISBN: 978-1-904587-71-2). These photographs show a darker side of the ordinary - moments in the lifes of animals caught in their own fables. Giacomo has a website at http://www.giacomobrunelli.com/ for those that wish to explore.
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