| Jun 21, 2010 | Joe Deal (1947-2010) | | | | I'm saddened to say that I just received an email from the Robert Mann Gallery in New York saying that Joe Deal passed away Friday, June 18, 2010 in Providence, Rhode Island following an eight year battle against cancer. Actively involved in the influential New Topographics exhibition of 1975 he continued to photograph the landscapes of the American West. The Joe Deal Archive is housed at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.
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Past issues of the newsletter are in the library on the Luminous-Lint website. Best, Alan
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| | Jun 19, 2010 | Roger Fenton | | | |
English photographer - best known for his work March 8 to June 26, 1855 during the Crimean War (1854-1856). This however does not do justice to the range of photographs he took that include still lifes, royal portraits, landscapes, museum record shots and architecture. A richly varied output was achieved in the ten year period (1852-1862) that he was involved in photography.
He was the founder and first Secretary of the Photographic Society of London in 1854. Fenton terminated his photographic career in 1861, after which his equipment and negatives were bought by Francis Frith. Prior to this, he had a varied photographic career and was one of the first photographers to photograph scenic views, stately homes and art works with an eye to selling copies to the public. A perfectionist in all things, Fenton worried about his photographs fading but some of his prints in the Royal Photographic Society Collection are in near mint condition.
[With thanks to Pam Roberts]
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Exhibition: Roger Fenton
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| | Jun 19, 2010 | Scientific: Astronomy - Early examples | | | |
Some other resources you might enjoy if you are interested in astronomy.
The Ultimate Resource for Eclipse Photography
Information on eclipse and astro-photography. Includes an online edition of the book Totality- Eclipses of the Sun.
The Transit of Venus
There have been only three transits of Venus since the discovery of photography in 1839 and these were in 1874, 1882 and 2004 with a further one coming in 2012. This website includes a detailed listing of the expeditions to observe the transits of Venus in 1874 and 1882. The Netherlands, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Egypt, France, USA all had observation teams for the 1874 transit.
Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "The First Stereoscopic Pictures of the Moon", Am. J. Phys., 40, 536-540 (1972)
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Exhibition: Scientific: Astronomy - Early examples
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| | Jun 19, 2010 | New York | | | |
A starting point for an online exhibition on the photography of New York. including photographs by:
Alfred Stieglitz
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Jacob A. Riis
Lewis W. Hine
Samuel Gottscho
Eugene De Salignac
Berenice Abbott
Ben Shahn
Margaret Bourke-White
Ruth Orkin
Helen Levitt
Weegee
Todd Webb
Saul Leiter
Arthur Leipzig
André Kertész
György Lorinczy
William Klein
Philip Trager
Barbara Mensch
Sean Perry
Michael Massaia
Thanks to all the photographers, galleries and organizations who have kindly provided examples. Other suggestions will be most welcome.
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Exhibition: New York
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| | Jun 19, 2010 | Erotica: Comment me preferez vous?" [How would you like to see me?] | | | |
I must lead a sheltered life as this is the first time I've seen one of these late nineteenth century compact albums with the French title Comment me preferez vous? [How would you like to see me?]. The album contains twelve 15.5 x 11 cm albumen prints showing a lady at various stages of undressing and posing. It is so tame by modern standards but shows a combination of erotica mixed with the artistic pretensions of the picture frame, moody backgrounds, selected props and posing styles.
Thanks to 19th century photography in The Netherlands for providing this example.
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Exhibition: Erotica: Comment me preferez vous? [How would you like to see me?]
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| | Jun 16, 2010 | Bièvres International Photofair, France (4th-5th June, 2010) | | | |
The annual Bièvres International Photofair outside Paris is a key event in the calendar for dealers and collectors seeking out photographs and photo-collectibles. I've never been and so I asked a friend to take some photos for me this year to get a sense of it. Thanks to Alain Masson and Steven Evans for these views.
If you have additional photographs of Bièvres or similar events I'm always interested.
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| | Jun 16, 2010 | Roger Fenton: Oriental series | | | |
In his studio at Albert Terrace in London in the Summer of 1858 Roger Fenton created his "Oriental" series of around fifty negatives. The photographs were taken in conjunction with Frank Dillon (1823-1909) who was a English landscape painter who also featured in some of the series and may have assisted in their composition. Photographs from this series are rare and the albums that contained them were mostly given as gifts by Fenton. A group of five previously unknown prints from this series are coming up as Lot 638 at Dominic Winter Auctions in the UK on Thursday, 17 June, 2010.
For further information see:
Gordon Baldwin, Roger Fenton: Pasha and Bayadere, (Getty Museum, 1996).
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| | Jun 13, 2010 | Scientific: Astronomy - The Modern Age | | | |
A visual journey through the known universe with NASA and ESA.
In a 1615 letter from Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) to Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany he wrote...
Some years ago, as Your Serene Highness well knows, I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age. The novelty of these things, as well as some consequences which followed from them in contradiction to the physical notions commonly held among academic philosophers, stirred up against me no small number of professors — as if I had placed these things in the sky with my own hands in order to upset nature and overturn the sciences. They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts; not their diminution or destruction.
Source: Perry McAdow Rogers Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Sources in History (Prentice Hall, 1988)
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Exhibition: Scientific: Astronomy - The Modern Age
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| | Jun 13, 2010 | Chris Steele-Perkins: England, My England | | | |
Photographs jog the mind.
Photographs can embrace you in a warm hug of memory, a shocked pause of recollection, or a visual jolt of the unexpected. I lived in England through most of the period that Chris Steele-Perkins documents in his book England, My England: A Photographer's Portrait (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Northumbria Press, 2009). I can remember times in pubs with drunken men stretched on the floor, I was at one of the Anti-Nazi League demonstrations in Lewisham in the late 1970s, I've been at street carnivals in Brixton and walked on seaside beaches with donkeys. So the photographs are familiar - there are no visual tricks here just a desire to show Britain as it was during the period. It is an honest view of the complexities of society in an age when themed photo-essays often replace complexity with message.
The photographs here are not judgemental but inclusive of diversity in all its aspects. The homeless and the poor have their places along with an alfresco picnic at the Glynebourne Opera where cows have extra roles as ruminating food critics.
Alan Griffiths, June 2010
Chris Steele-Perkins England, My England: A Photographer's Portrait (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Northumbria Press, 2009) ISBN: 978-1-904794-38-7
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Exhibition: Chris Steele-Perkins: England, My England
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