| May 27, 2008 | NYPL - Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City | | | | The "Sunday Arts" segment on the New York Public Library (NYPL) exhibition "Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City," will be repeated tonight (Tues May 27) on "New York Voices" on PBS, Channel 13 (New York) from 10:30-11 PM.
For those outside of the NYC area, a link to the segment is available online as well:
http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/eminent-domain
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| | May 25, 2008 | Aline Smithson: An Evolving Retrospective | | | |
Aline Smithson writes in her introduction to this exhibition:
"I take photographs to allow myself and the viewer to linger a little longer within an image. I try to look for or create moments that are at once familiar, yet unexpected. The odd juxtapositions that we find in life are worth exploring, whether it is with humor, compassion, or by simply taking the time to see them."
There is currently an exhibition of two of her series, "Stains and Shadows" and "Hugo", at the WallSpace Gallery, Pioneer Building, 600 First Ave, suite 322, Seattle (May 13 - June 28, 2008). I'd like to thank Aline Smithson and Crista Dix for their assistance with this online exhibition.
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Exhibition: Aline Smithson: An Evolving Retrospective
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| | May 25, 2008 | Ephemera: Evites | | | |
"Ephemera is transitory written and printed matter, not intended to be retained or preserved. The word derives from the Greek, meaning things lasting no more than a day."
(Wikipedia, May 24, 2008)
It is not surprising running this website that I receive invitations to a wide variety of events around the world and some of these arrive by mail but an increasing number only have a digital form and these evites are extreme ephemera as they often have no material form and yet they are a small but important part of the history of photography. I welcome receiving further evites of significant exhibitions or visually interesting examples you may have.
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Exhibition: Ephemera: Evites
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| | May 23, 2008 | Cornell Capa (1918-2008) | | | | Cornell Capa died on Friday, May 23rd at his home in Manhattan aged 90. He was a highly respected photojournalist working for LIFE magazine and Magnum and he will be remembered as the founder of the International Center of Photography (ICP).
The New York Times - obituary by Philip Gefter
Portrait courtesy of Bill Jay
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| | May 22, 2008 | Walter Schels: Life before Death | | | |
In the nineteenth century post-mortem photography was both accepted and commonplace with the lower life expectancy making death a very real part of life. There are several excellent books on this topic including:
Ruby, Jay. (1995) Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America Boston: MIT Press
Burns, Stanley B. (1990) Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America Twelve Trees Press
Burns, Stanley B. & Elizabeth A.(2002). Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement in Memorial Photography American and European Traditions Burns Archive Press
Death has become an increasingly taboo subject and the rights associated with it being passed on to funeral directors making it increasingly remote. In 2003 photographer Walter Schels and journalist Beate Lakotta commenced a project to photograph terminally ill patients both before and after death.
"We all know that we are going to die one day, but it is very difficult to believe that it will really happen to us. Our motivation for this project was to overcome our own fear of facing up to death. The project goes some way to explore this."
This is a powerful series and I'd like to thank Beate and Walter for allowing me to include it here.
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Exhibition: Walter Schels: Life before Death
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| | May 22, 2008 | Aaron Siskind: The Egan Gallery Years 1947-1954 | | | |
On the 4th May 2008 I put up an online exhibition Abstract: Abstraction of the real that has proved to be the most popular exhibition this month and there is also an exhibition by Carl Chiarenza: The Nature of Abstraction available. The Robert Mann Gallery in New York (May 15 - June 28, 2008) is currently showing an exhibition of the photographs of Aaron Siskind taken in the 1940s and 50s and have kindly agreed that we can include the exhibition here.
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Exhibition: Aaron Siskind: The Egan Gallery Years 1947-1954
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| | May 16, 2008 | Flip Schulke (1930-2008) | | | | Flip Schulke, a pioneering photographer of the Civil Rights Movement died yesterday aged 77 in West Palm Beach. His Civil Rights Movement work was documented in three books: Martin Luther King Jr.: A Documentary, Montgomery to Memphis (1976); King Remembered (1986); and He Had a Dream (1995). He also covered Cassius Clay (Mohammad Ali) and was a pioneering underwater photographer.
National Press Photographers Association - Obituary
Palm Beach Post - Obituary
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| | May 14, 2008 | Photographic Full Body Map - Please join in | | | | You may have noticed the recent online exhibitions I've added to Luminous-Lint include Hands and Back view - these have been very popular and are being extended with additional contributions from photographers and galleries - many thanks.
The intention is to create a "Photographic Full Body Map" where each part or area of the body has a distinct online exhibition that shows how it has been photographed from the earliest days of photography. Finding good examples is easier for some parts - hands, eyes, legs, backs are common themes but some areas are not so this is your opportunity to assist. I'm seeking unusual and classic photographs of ears, the mouth, feet, single fingers, toes, knees, elbows, the delicate areas and I mean delicate. So if you have a daguerreotype of a mouth, a tintype of just a knee, or any print showing an ear I'd be fascinated and I'm interested in all periods of photography and medical photographs are permissible. Each selected image will be credited and for each image I need full caption details:
- Photographer name
- Title
- Date
- Name of series (if appropriate)
- Photograph type
- Size
- Anecdote (if there is anything you would like to add about the image)
The images can be sent as jpgs at a maximum length on the height or width axis of 1000 pixels at 200dpi. The higher quality I receive the higher the quality on the website but please note that some artefacts may occur due to compression. For screen display images are normally shown at a maximum of 500 pixels on an axis at around 72 dpi.
If there is a website for the images you feel should be included just send me the link - if sending images only send a couple for me to get a sense of and I'll be in touch if I need others. Let's see what treasures we can unearth - Alan. alan@luminous-lint.com
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| | May 14, 2008 | Van Leo: An Armenian Photographer in Cairo | | | |
Leon (Leovan) Boyadjian, better known in as “Van Leo” (1921-2002) was an Armenian photographer who opened a studio in Cairo in 1941 and recorded the businessmen, British officers and actresses who frequented the city. In 1998 photographer Barry Iverson arranged for his negatives and archives to be preserved at The American University in Cairo and there has been an increasing interest in this remarkable body of work over the last decade.
I'd like to thank the American University in Cairo for their permission for this online exhibition and Barry Iverson for his assistance in arranging it. In Italy the work of Van Leo is represented by Galleria Magenta 52 and they hosted an exhibition of Van Leo's photographs in 2007. The introduction to this exhibition is from the book by Martina Corgnati A Photographer called Van Leo, (Skira, 2007) and I'm grateful to the author for allowing it to be included.
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Exhibition: Van Leo: An Armenian Photographer in Cairo
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| | May 13, 2008 | Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) | | | | Robert Rauschenberg died on Monday, May 12. A master of the American art scene and a truly multimedia artist who incorporated diverse forms into single works. As The New York Times obituary (May 14, 2008) says:
Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he thereby helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art - not to mention between art and life.
New York Times
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