| Sep 30, 2008 | Norman McBeath: City Stories | | | |
Norman McBeath is an independent photographer, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His work focuses on people and places. The National Portrait Galleries in Edinburgh and London have fifty of his portraits in their permanent collections. This online exhibition of his series City Stories has been published in Norman McBeath "City Stories" (Easel Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9552859-2-9).
Award-winning novelist Janice Galloway has kindly provided an introduction to this exhibition. Her introduction begins with Nothing is strange. And everything is. which is a fitting description of street photography - which encompasses banal moments, accidental discoveries and juxtapositions along with the fractions of a second that become iconic images of an age. As Janice Galloway concludes:
McBeath’s images jostle, suggest competing interpretations, bring evocations to the surface that pop and melt like bubbles. Within them, nothing is strange. And everything is. QED. The complexity of what we sloppily call “everyday life” is no secret, yet it’s seldom taken this seriously, its counterpoints made central, not just a quirky backdrop to a more cleanly-interpreted foreground. This rich black and white gallery permits the reframing of the stage set we walk through every day, helping us grasp the full remarkableness of the ordinary.
Thanks to Norman McBeath and Janice Galloway for their assistance with this online exhibition.
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Exhibition: Norman McBeath: City Stories
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| | Sep 17, 2008 | Lori Nix | | | |
Lori Nix creates worlds and stories and then photographs them. As Lori writes in her introduction:
"My photos begin as highly detailed dioramas I construct from everyday items such as wood, plaster, and foam as well as scale model supplies. I build them with one eye towards reality and creating a believable landscape. Drawing on my surroundings for inspiration, I want to create a world that is familiar to the viewer, with recognize able details, that causes them to believe that it is a legitimate place. I want to fool the viewer, but only up to a point. I also want them to discover, in the course of looking at the photograph, that it is an imagined environment."
My thanks to Lori for all her help with this online exhibition.
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Exhibition: Lori Nix
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| | Sep 16, 2008 | Peter Feldstein & Stephen G. Bloom: The Oxford Project | | | |
"In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every resident of his town, Oxford, Iowa (pop. 676). Twenty years later, he did it again. But this time those same residents did more than pose. With extraordinary honesty, they shared their memories, fantasies, failures, secrets and fears with writer Stephen G. Bloom. The result is a riveting collection of personal stories and portraits that tell much more than the tale of one small Midwestern town. Because beneath Oxford’s everyday surface, lives a complex and wondrous community that embodies the American spirit."
Thanks to Peter Feldstein, Stephen G. Bloom and Lena Tabori of Welcome Books for their assistance with this exhibition.
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Exhibition: Peter Feldstein: The Oxford Project
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| | Sep 15, 2008 | Rick Dingus: An Evolving Retrospective | | | |
Rick Dingus in this online exhibition explores the nature of place as he describes in his introduction.
"I photograph places that interest me because they contain details that pose questions related to a broadly defined notion of "Landscape." I'm interested in any situation that prompts contemplation of the curiously complex connections we share with the larger patterns of existence. Remote wilderness and rural settings, vernacular byways, urban environments, ancient pathways, ruins, historic, mythic and spiritual pilgrimage sites, scientific and technological research facilities, folk and professional museums, shrines, collections, displays, and dioramas all fascinate me because these places reflect individual and collective responses, understandings, and a myriad of relationships to the same world I live in. I've shifted frames of reference continually, seeking new insights that might be hidden behind the details that are in plain view."
Thanks to Rick Dingus for his enthusiasm and assistance with this exhibition.
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Exhibition: Rick Dingus: An Evolving Retrospective
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| | Sep 14, 2008 | Are you a passionate enthusiast and collector? | | | |
Do you collect photography-related items but don't have the desire or time to build a website?
Would you like to share your passion with fellow enthusiasts?
Well read on.... if you have a collection that relates to any area of the history of photography I'm interested.
- Photographs of combs, mountaineers and mountaineering, famous aviators, scientific equipment, feet or any other subject
- Studio stamps, signatures and portraits of photographers
- Early photographically illustrated books and exhibition catalogs
- The backs of carte-de-visites and cabinet cards
- Photographs of a particular region, locality or building
- Labels for photography societies and exhibitions
- Every model of Brewster stereocard viewer
Whatever your interest in photography is, and even if your partner and friends no longer want to hear about it, I do. If you have fellow enthusiasts who would like to work together to pool knowledge and examples even better. For some online exhibitions on Luminous-Lint we bring together teams of people to work collaboratively and that is rewarding for everyone.
I'll need a set of images, a caption list and a short introduction. It's a very straight forward process - so no matter what aspect of photography you are passionate and knowledgeable about send me your idea for an exhibition and we'll discuss it.
Best,
Alan
alan@luminous-lint.com
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| | Sep 13, 2008 | The Roz Leibowitz Collection: Snapshot Disasters | | | |
Soon after I put up the recent exhibition on Abstract: Multiple exposures - Snapshots on August 22, 2008 I received an enthusiastic email from Roz Leibowitz of New York with the generous offer of some additional images. In a flurry of emails I learnt that Roz is passionate about the snapshot and so we decided to do an online exhibition on Snapshot Disasters and her CD arrived through yesterday. We are entering a weird world here as Roz explains in her introduction:
"First it was the light flashes, which I still believe are a sign of other worlds making their presence known on this plane. Then it was the hidden writing on the back or even the front of the photos. Such a perfect matching of text and image still takes my breath away. Then I noticed the multiple exposures. ‘She clicked it twice!‘ a woman named Nell screams from the back of a snapshot I call ‘whole lotta shaken going on‘. That’s the rational explanation. And professionals can tell me where all these lights and orbs and lines and streaks come from. I do not care. Nell knew what I know, that the snapshot disaster is often the one we remember and save for others to share."
It takes a collector with a different view of the world to preserve these visual oddities and thanks to Roz for sharing items from her collection. With the help of collectors around the world we are able to share themes in the ever-evolving history of photography that have rarely been seen. I know I keep saying it but thanks to you all for your support.
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Exhibition: The Roz Leibowitz Collection: Snapshot Disasters
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| | Sep 12, 2008 | The Annenberg Space for Photography | | | | In Spring 2009 the Annenberg Space for Photography will open in Los Angeles and it will have the advantage of being independent from the commercial pressures of a private gallery and the politics that can be so divisive within public art galleries and museums. As the center will not collect it will have the freedom to choice themes and bring together exhibitions from diverse parts of the community and not need to be focused on an individual perspective or collection. The space will include exhibition gallery, along with a classroom, a digital projection room, and a library making it a place for the exploration of photography. The merging of the showing of traditional prints in conjunction with access to digital archives will make for a richer experience.
This project is supported by the Annenberg Foundation.
(Source: Los Angeles Times, Calendar section, E2, Sept 12, 2008)
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| | Sep 11, 2008 | Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) - Request for examples | | | |
Norman Kulkin of Select Vernacular just sent me an email that is an excellent idea and I'd like to see what we can do as a community of fellow enthusiasts.
The Getty Center in Los Angeles is about to have an exhibition Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California (October 14, 2008–March 1, 2009) and the press release says:
"Dialogue among Giants presents the photographs of Carleton Watkins (American, 1829-1916) in the context of the birth and evolution of photography in California. The exhibition considers the social, political, economic, and artistic developments in California between the time of statehood in 1850 and the mid-1880s. It includes approximately 150 works, from daguerreotypes by unknown makers to mammoth-plate photographs by Watkins and his contemporaries."
A Catalog Raisonne of his approximately 1,300 plus mammoth plates is being prepared by Weston Naef for a forthcoming book.
What you can do to assist
I'd like to hear from collectors, dealers and galleries with examples of the photographs of Carleton Watkins that we can include in an online exhibition on Luminous--Lint to coincide with the exhibition at the Getty Center. All ideas, links and scans gratefully received - Alan alan@luminous-lint.com
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| | Sep 11, 2008 | The Hill Collection: Architectural Photography in the 19th Century | | | |
To develop a significant collection requires knowledge, a desire to learn and passion. By concentrating on a single theme, period or technique the collection is honed and this is what Toronto-based architect, architectural historian and architectural photographer Robert G. Hill has achieved. His collection of over 1,000 prints from the mid-19th century is over 90% albumen prints and focuses exclusively on architecture.
The collection includes works by the masters of 19th century architectural photography including the Alinari Brothers, Gioacchino Altobelli, James Anderson, Edouard Baldus, Antoine Beato, Henri Bechard, Francis Bedford, Auguste R. Bisson, Felix Bonfils, Samuel Bourne, Adolphe Braun, Domenico Bresolin, Giacomo Brogi, Charles Clifford, Pietro Dovizielli, Roger Fenton, Francis Frith, Juan Laurent, Robert Macpherson, Charles Marville, Carlo Naya, Etienne Neurdien (ND), Antonio Perini, Carlo Ponti, Pompeo Pozzi, Achille Quinet, James Robertson, Pascal Sebah, Giorgio Sommer, Charles Soulier, James Valentine and George W. Wilson.
I'd like to thank Robert G. Hill for his patience and enthusiasm in sharing these prints from his remarkable collection. As Robert wrote in an email "I hope this generates some interest in the subject of architectural photography." - I'm sure it will given these examples.
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Exhibition: The Hill Collection: Architectural Photography in the 19th Century
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| | Sep 9, 2008 | Phyllis Galembo: West African Masquerade | | | |
At the Fowler Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles there was a remarkable exhibition on Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas (April 6 - August 10, 2008) that showed the material complexity of a highly significant spiritual personality within the traditions and beliefs of Africa and the African Atlantic. Mama Wata, the water spirit with numerous guises, is one of the cast of characters who appears in this exhibition by New York-based photographer Phyllis Galembo.
Since 1997 Phyllis has attended festivals or sought out the masked performers who participate in the rituals of Benin, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. She has also followed the paths of the African diasporas to the Caribbean and recorded carnival in Haiti. Her portraits of costumed performers show us the material culture of the spirit world - the fashions of belief.
Thanks to Phyllis Galembo for her assistance with this exhibition.
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Exhibition: Phyllis Galembo: West African Masquerade
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