| Jun 25, 2011 | Conference announcement: Carol Szathmari (14-16 May, 2012, Bucharest) | | | |
Call for Papers
SZATHMARI, PIONEER PHOTOGRAPHER
First Announcement
An international conference focused on the recent findings on Carol Szathmari’s work as photographer at the dawn of war reportage, ethno-photography and art photography.
Co-organized by the "George Oprescu" Institute of Art History and The "6th Dorobantzi" Association.
14-16 May, 2012
The Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Dear Colleagues
On the occasion of Szathmari’s birth bicentennial (1812-2012), the "G. Oprescu" Institute of Art History takes great pleasure in inviting you to the SZATHMARI, PIONEER PHOTOGRAPHER conference to be held on 14-16 May, 2012, at the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.
Conference Objective and Goals
The three-day conference will present the results of new, unpublished research on Szathmari’s work. The proceedings of the conference will be published in a book.
Conference Themes
- Carol Popp de Szathmari (1812-1887), his life and his work
- Szathmari and his contemporaries (statesmen, painters, writers, journalists, photographers)
- Szathmari’s albums and pictures in state and private collections outside Romania
- Scientific investigation into Szathmari’s photographs
- Conservation and preservation issues related to Szathmari’s plates and prints
Related Events
Conference participants will enjoy the unique and unprecedented opportunity to view a selection of the most important pictures by Szathmari in the collections of the Library of the Romanian Academy.
A guided tour of Bucharest, pointing out the monuments pictured by Szathmari will complete the conference offering the participants a bit of 19th century Romania.
The event will close with a gala projection of the documentary movie The Eyewitness (2002, directed by Gabriel Cobasnian, screenplay and starring A-S. Ionescu).
Registration
| Regular registration | 50 € | | Student registration at reduced rate | 20 € |
The participants will pay the registration fee at the registration desk in the first day of the conference.
Procedure
Please send the title and an abstract of your paper (max. 300 words) as well as a curriculum vitae, to the following addresses: istartro@yahoo.com and adriansilvan@hotmail.com.
Deadline: 1st December 2011
The papers can be filed in English, French, German, Italian or Romanian but the language used during the conference will be English and Romanian only.
Authors of selected papers will be notified by 30 December 2011.
We would highly appreciate if you would be prepared to submit your paper of max. 10.000 words (notes and bibliography included) before 15 April 2012.
The organizational team is looking forward to your applications!
For further information please contact adriansilvan@hotmail.com
The board of organization:
Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, Alan Griffiths, Ruxanda Beldiman, Cornelia König
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| Jun 25, 2011
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Help required | Fashion photography | | | | The following online exhibitions form the basis for a section on fashion photography. One group of exhibitions shows the different styles of clothing worn during the 19th century while another shows fashion photographs taken during different decades of the 20th century - 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. We will fill in gaps as we go forward.
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| | Jun 24, 2011 | Fashion 1960s | | | |
The 1960s remains one of my favourite periods of Fashion Photography as I was living in London at the time - a bit young to be involved but I do remember in the early 1970s being almost run over when crossing an alley in Soho by a car in which Twiggy was a passenger. She was one of the faces of the 60s for the best of reasons - she was stunning and photographed well. This was the period when David Bailey, Brian Duffy and Terence Donovan demonstrated their talents in fashion photography.
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Exhibition: Fashion 1960s
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| | Jun 24, 2011 | Fashion 1950s | | | |
Continuing on with online exhibitions of Fashion Photography here is the 1950s with Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Irving Penn, Fritz Henle, Norman Parkinson and others.
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Exhibition: Fashion 1950s
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| | Jun 24, 2011 | Fashion 1940s | | | |
An online exhibition of the Fashion Photography of the 1940s including works by Norman Parkinson, Toni Frissell, Cecil Beaton, Horst and other photographers.
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Exhibition: Fashion 1940s
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| | Jun 24, 2011 | Fashion 1930s | | | |
An online exhibition showing a selection of Fashion Photography from the 1930s including classics such as Martin Munkácsi "Lucille Brokaw" (1934) and Horst "The Mainbocher Corset, Paris" (1939).
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Exhibition: Fashion 1930s
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| | Jun 19, 2011 | Wilson A. Bentley: Snowflakes | | | |
Working away on the tags and Visual Indexes has delayed progress on the Online Exhibitions and other projects over the last few months. It was well worth it as the indexes make the website far better integrated but It is now time to continue building up the online exhibitions so here is the first of a new batch.
On the website snowflakebentley.com operated by the Jericho Historical Society (Jericho, Vermont, USA) there is a quotation that sums up his mission:
"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind."
The snowflakebentley.com website includes some fascinating graphs by Duncan C. Blanchard on the work of Wilson A. Bentley.
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Exhibition: Wilson A. Bentley: Snowflakes
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| | Jun 5, 2011 | Dates added to the Visual Indexes | | | |
For a time I've been thinking that to better understand trends chronological lightboxes showing significant photographs, publications, medals etc would assist and I've now added a way of exploring by Date.
Click on a year to start your visual journey - "Pathways for the Visual Mind"...
1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848
1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858
1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868
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NOTE: The year of an image shown throughout Luminous-Lint may be clickable.
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| | May 15, 2011 | Visual Indexes | | | | Seemingly things have been quiet on Luminous-Lint over the last month but that is an illusion as regular visitors will have noticed. I‘ve been pondering how images can be linked together into meaningful groups. Using fixed tags is not sufficiently flexible and so I‘ve come up with
a rather more fluid system of Visual Indexes that will change and allow photographs to be connected to each other using geography, photographic processes or any other visual or conceptual linkage we come up with in the future.
The examples below show how this becomes a useful research tool that we can build on by using images from the over 2,000 organisations and private collections on Luminous-Lint.
EXAMPLE: Spirals
Visual similarities and patterns throughout the history of photography can be explored in novel ways and there are many surprises to be found.
EXAMPLE: The Forum Romanum - Rome
In the auction catalogue for the upcoming Bassenge auction there is in Lot 4027 a photograph by Tommaso Cuccioni showing the Forum Romanum and the notes mention that the trees on the Via Sacra were planted in 1855. Using Visual Indexes we can see sequences of photographs that show the growth of the trees and this will assist in refining the dates photographs were taken.
EXAMPLE: Visual indexes by technique
There are many ways of exploring including key Techniques and common ones include...
EXAMPLE: Textiles and photography
These examples of photographs with fabric each take us to clusters of photographs related to textiles.
EXAMPLE: Portraits of photographers
On Luminous-lint there are large numbers of portraits of photographers, including 116 for Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre alone, Visual Indexes bring these portraits together for the first time.
EXAMPLE: Visual indexes by geography
Here you can explore photographs taken at specific locations. The benefit of this approach is that you can see multiple photographs of the same location revealing different stylistic approaches.
Using these you can go down to the level of cities and in some cases individual buildings.
EXAMPLE: Visual connections
Here any photograph is a starting point for a visual Odyssey for those with better vision than sheep-stroking Polyphemus.
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