| Jun 13, 2010 | Congratulations to lots of people this week | | | |
The last week or so there have been a host of congratulations due to friends and colleagues.
Romanian photo-historian and author Dr. Adrian-Silvan Ionescu was awarded the Regele Mihai pentru Loialitate [King Mihai for Loyalty] medal at the Elizabeth Palace in Bucharest. Well deserved and I raised a glass in his honour.
In France the "Prix de la Photographie, Paris" (Px3) winners were announced this week and a number of friends have won awards.
Mitch Dobrowner won 1st Place in the "Nature" and 1st in "Nature - Sky"
Claudia Kunin won 1st Place in "Fine Art - Abstract" and 2nd place in "Fine Art"
Isa Leshko won 2d Place in " Photojournalism - Nature/Environmental "and 3rd Place in "Book (Series Only) - Nature"
Tom Chambers won 2nd Place in " Fine Art - Digitally Enhanced"
Staying in Paris it was the 35th anniversary on 10th June of the Agathe Gaillard Gallery at 3 rue du Pont Louis Philippe. This gallery is the longest running gallery in Paris dedicated solely to photography and its foundation was encouraged by a group of photographer friends including Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Ralph Gibson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertesz, Edouard Boubat, Robert Doisneau and Gisèle Freund. Congratulations to Agathe.
Sarah Hoskins kindly provided an online exhibition for Luminous-Lint some years back on her long running documentary project "The Homeplace" covering the "Negro Hamlets" near Lexington in Kentucky. I just heard that her project was featured on NPR a while back.
Photographer Finds Kinship With A Black 'Homeplace'
Kentucky's African-American Hamlets: A Photographer's 'Homeplace'
Always great to see friends being recognized. Fond congratulations to you all, Alan
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| | Jun 12, 2010 | Eva Leitolf: German Images - Looking for Evidence 2006-2008 | | | |
In 'German Images - Looking for Evidence' photographer Eva Leitolf turns her attention to racist crimes in Germany and the ways they are discussed in society. In the early 1990s she photographed crime scenes, victims and perpetrators, and uninvolved bystanders. Returning to the theme in 2006, she reduced the visual content to nothing more than the places where the crimes had been commited, combined her images with meticulously researched texts about the events themselves and the way they were dealt with afterwards politically, by the courts, and in the media. Conceived as a long-term study, this work challenges the way society deals with racist violence and in the process tests the bounds and possibilities of what can be said visually.
A more detailed list of text sources can be found in the artist´s book, Eva Leitolf Deutsche Bilder - eine Spurensuche (Snoeck 2008, with texts in German and English)
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Exhibition: Eva Leitolf: German Images - Looking for Evidence 2006-2008
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| | Jun 12, 2010 | John Wood: Endurance and Suffering - Narratives of Disease in the 19th Century | | | |
This online exhibition contains images and texts that may be considered disturbing and if you are of a sensitive disposition, or under 18, I would advise against viewing them. You have been warned.
Editorial note by Alan Griffiths
The book Endurance and Suffering - Narratives of Disease in the 19th Century is a complex work with multiple narratives and messages and is not easy viewing. The origins are in the case studies and notes of George Henry Fox (1846-1937) a leading American dermatologist. He arranged to have his patients photographed and most, but not all, of these were photographed by O.G. Mason the photographer at Bellvue Hospital in New York. Photomechanical prints were made for three books by Fox and they were hand-colored by Dr. Joseph Gaertner. With this we have the setting - medical illustrations but what do they tell us about the people?
Here this exhibition takes a different route and beneath the medical case notes are the poems by John Wood, photo-historian and poet, which take us into imagined realms of possibility. Make no mistake this is difficult viewing and reading and no American publisher would release it. When it was published in Germany it received the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis - Gold Medal for 2009 for Historical and Theoretical Photography. Luminous-Lint will continue to explore all aspects of the complex history of photography.
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Exhibition: John Wood: Endurance and Suffering - Narratives of Disease in the 19th Century
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| | Jun 12, 2010 | Niagara Falls | | | |
A nineteenth century account of a visit to Niagara Falls...
We discovered in the ferry-house at the top of the long staircase leading down to the ferry opposite the Clifton Hotel, a daguerreotypist's emporium, whose wares consisted of correct views of of the Falls taken from various points of observation, as also a number of the luckless Dutchman as he appeared in the boat which had lodged in the rapids leading to Iris Island, and who was hurried over after remaining there some forty-eight hours. Several months ago, another view presented him as he was plunging towards the brink of the Fall, his arms wildly, hopelessly tossed towards heaven. Such morbid and depraved tastes for the awfully tragic is peculiar to the other side. Fancy such a picture contributing to the embellishment of a drawingroom! It is disgusting; lamentably so! But Dollardom can turn grind-stones with the Falls, and dig down the river banks for a railroad track; so any innocent triumph of a daguerreotypist is of little consideration anyhow. "he will nasal to you!" Our British blood was boiling almost to effervescence, so we endeavored to allay it by copious exhaustings of sherry cobblers and dishes of ice-cream and strawberries, which Jonathan knows well how to prepare.
Published in "A Student Tramp to Niagara Falls", The Anglo-American Magazine, Volume 5, 1854, p.354
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Exhibition: Niagara Falls
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| | Jun 10, 2010 | Agathe Gaillard Gallery - 35th anniversary | | | |
The Agathe Gaillard Gallery was founded in June 1975 and is the longest running gallery in Paris dedicated solely to photography. This small and very personal exhibition, selected by Agathe, is a celebration of 35 years of the gallery and the photographers who have worked with it over the years. Founded with the support of photographer friends including Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Ralph Gibson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertesz, Edouard Boubat, Robert Doisneau and Gisèle Freund it has continued a tradition of well established photographers being involved with younger photographers establishing their careers.
Congratulations to Agathe and thanks for sharing this intimate view.
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Exhibition: Agathe Gaillard: 35th Anniversary of the Parisian Gallery
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| | Jun 6, 2010 | Earliest War Photographs | | | |
This reference set brings together some of the widely scattered examples that are referred to when the earliest war photography is mentioned.
There is little agreement as to what constitutes the first war photograph - is it the first person in military uniform, the first images of a group parading to war, the first scene of the logistics of war, the first photographs taken in the vicinity of where a war had occurred, the first battlefield scene or the first casualties? The difficulty also arises as to what war is and do civil conflicts, revolts and popular uprisings such as the Hungarian Revolution (1848) of Lajos Kossuth or the barricades in Paris (1848) photographed by M. Thibault qualify?
This exhibition has gaps or is seeking better quality examples:
1. The Daguerreotypes of the Mexican-American War taken around Saltillo, Mexico in 1847.
2. Any surviving images of the Hungarian Revolution (1848).
3. The works of Bengal Army Surgeon John McCosh who served with the Bengal Artillery during the Second Sikh War (1848-49) and the Second Burma War (1852-53). Albums of this work are held at the National Army Museum (London).
4. Battlefield photographs taken by Carol Szathmari in 1854 during the Danubian campaign of the Crimean War.
The intention here is to add missing examples as we proceed and I'd be pleased to hear your suggestions for improvement so we can expand this into a useful resource for the community - alan@luminous-lint.com
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Exhibition: Earliest War Photographs
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| | Jun 6, 2010 | Brian Duffy (1933-2010) | | | |
"Before 1960, a fashion photographer was tall, thin and camp. But we three are different: short, fat and heterosexual!"
[Duffy explains the history of UK fashion photography in a single sentence.]
When I heard yesterday that Duffy had died on 31st May I realized that Luminous-Lint had no examples of his photographs and so I asked the Chris Beetles gallery, that represents him in London, to allow me to include some to which they kindly agreed. This online exhibition is dedicated to the memory of a great photographer.
With special thanks to Giles Huxley-Parlour.
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Exhibition: Brian Duffy (1933-2010)
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| | Jun 6, 2010 | 19th Century Objects incorporating photographs | | | |
This exhibition includes 19th and early 20th century objects in which photographs have been used as a key component. It includes jewelry, printed or hand-written items where photographs have been added, game boards, fans, lamps and other items.
I'd welcome additional examples so we can create a reference set.
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Exhibition: 19th Century Non-paper-based objects incorporating photographs
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| | 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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