| Jun 5, 2010 | Brian Duffy (1933-2010) | | | | I've just heard that Brian Duffy died on 31 May 2010.
One of the iconic photographers and film producers ("Only When I Laugh" (1967-68), "Oh What a Lovely War" (1968-69)) of the 1960s in Britain along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan. One of his seminal projects was the portrait of David Bowie for "Aladdin Sane" (1973). He took powerful fashion and commercial photography including campaigns for Benson & Hedges (1977) and Smirnoff (1978). He was noted for his temper and implusive nature perhaps best demonstrated by his burning of his negatives in 1979 after an assistant told him they had no toilet paper.
There is a BBC documentary "The Man Who Shot the 60s" (2009) about his career.
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| | May 31, 2010 | Norman Kulkin: The Definite Article | | | |
For his series "The Definite Article" Norman Kulkin, a Los Angeles-based photography dealer and artist, has combined his interests in the nineteenth century photography formats of the carte de visite and the cabinet card with collage to experiment with new forms. The introduction by Norman includes his reflections and meditations.
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Exhibition: Norman Kulkin - The Definitive Article
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| | May 31, 2010 | Alan Griffiths: Dark Realms | | | |
As Luminous-Lint has expanded I've frequently been asked if I take photographs and, if I do, where could they be seen? To avoid confusion I've never included my own work preferring to keep it private and stored away in dark places. Recently I've been looking at the work of Bohumil Stepán, Bill Lee and Norman Kulkin who've been using carte de visites and cabinet cards as the basis for their artistic explorations. Seeing these I felt I should break my self-imposed rule as showing some pieces from one of my own series might stimulate discussion.
The series "Dark Realms" was created in 2005 as a parallel history of photography that could never have happened.
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Exhibition: Alan Griffiths - Dark Realms
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| | May 30, 2010 | Satellite imagery of Earth | | | |
When I prepared the "Aerial Photography" online exhibition in April 2010 I had an uneasy feeling that the remote sensing imagery from the ESA and NASA satellites and Google imagery should not be included there. I now feel that the topics need to be split and the satellite imagery that was in "Aerial Photography" has been moved here.
These images can be of such extraordinary beauty that we easily forget that views like this have only been possible in the last fifty years. Sputnik was launched in 1957 but it took a while for high quality imaging systems to be installed on satellites.
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Exhibition: Satellite imagery of Earth
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| | May 30, 2010 | Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) | | | |
On Saturday 29th May 2010 Dennis Hopper died in Venice, California. To say that a person has been iconic, difficult and at the same time driven is rare. Actor, artist, sculptor, writer, film director, photographer and motor cycle rider - he will be remembered.
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| | May 29, 2010 | Architecture: Masters of Architectural Photography - Exteriors | | | |
This online exhibition is far from exhaustive but is rather, in my own defense, a sampling of five images from a number of photographers who have concentrated on architecture.
Charles Marville (France)
Linnaeus Tripe (India)
Thomas Annan (Scotland)
Juan Laurent (Spain)
Fratelli Alinari (Italy)
Henry Dixon (England)
Eugčne Atget (France)
Francis Benjamin Johnston (USA)
Berenice Abbott (USA)
August Sander (Germany)
Bernd & Hilla Becher (Germany)
Lewis Baltz (USA)
Julius Shulman (USA)
Christian Patterson (USA)
I'd welcome suggestions for key photographers I've missed.
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Exhibition: Architecture: Masters of Architectural Photography - Exteriors
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| | May 29, 2010 | 19th century Tableau vivant | | | |
A tableau vivant is a scene played by one or more actors who remain silent and motionless.
When Charles Dickens toured America he was entertained at grand balls which consisted of a combination of dances and tableau vivant. Dickens would have watched or participated in a dance and then presumably behind a curtain a suitably attired group armed with appropriate props would take their positions in a well-known scene from "Oliver Twist" or "Nicholas Nickleby" the curtains would be drawn back to reveal them to the audience with appropriate acclamation. Tableau vivant have declined in popularity along with costume parties, mime and dressing up although the tradition continues with dressed up characters in tourist centers.
The online exhibition includes a "preliminary" typology of tableau vivant with examples. Your thoughts are always welcome.
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Exhibition: 19th Century Tableau vivant
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| | May 23, 2010 | Newsletter 4.03 - May 23, 2010 has been emailed | | | | Luminous-Lint Newsletter 4.03 - May 23, 2010 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. Best, Alan
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| | May 23, 2010 | Documentary: Death | | | |
To grasp the relationship between photography and death a poem from Root's Daguerrean Gallery in New York in 1853 sums it up in a way that is a little difficult for our more cynical times.
Root's Daguerrean Gallery.— He succeeds admirably in taking the likenesses of children. And what mother would not love to preserve the infant features of her children to look upon in after years, especially should they be taken away by death. We have rarely seen a more beautiful illustration of this than in the following:
Sweet child, that angel face must fade,
As years shall come and go.
For time doth ever mar the fair
And bright of all below.
But thy fond mother's jealous care
Hath robbed the yawning tomb,
And by the might of art, hath fixed
For e'er thy youthful bloom.
Within her sacred shrine there hangs
In all its infant grace,
On Root's unequaled, perfect plate,
Her darling's glorious face.
Then, mother of the blooming child,
Trust not the fleeting hours,
But, as this mother did by hers,
Do thou at once by yours.
Then, should the sudden dart of death
Your loved one call away,
You'd bless the hint by which you had
The picture done to day,
By Root, 363 Broadway.
The Christian Parlor Magazine, Volume 10, 1853, p.379.
This online exhibition is a lesson in the changing societal responses to death. In the 19th century it was socially acceptable and indeed expected that death-bed photographs would be taken as memento mori. Here we have family photographs along with those from the criminal and military worlds.
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Exhibition: 19th Century Post-mortem photography and memento mori
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| | May 23, 2010 | Rose-Lynn Fisher: Bee | | | |
When I put up the online exhibition on photomicrographs a few weeks ago Rose-Lynn Fisher contacted me with an theme for an online exhibit. She has just completed a series of scanning electron microscope images of honeybees that has been published in Bee (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). Thanks to Rose-Lynn for sharing these.
The outstanding beauty of these can be seen in my favorite "Wing, 270x" (LL/36995) which appears to be an astral bridge reaching through stars - extraordinary.
A few days ago I was out assisting a beekeeper friend of mine here in Nova Scotia and got stung so I have a certain affinity with these miniature wonders - Enjoy.
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Exhibition: Rose-Lynn Fisher: Bee
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