| Feb 5, 2012 | Different versions of Photographs | |
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We are interested in building up reference sets to show how the same plate or negative could be used to create different photographs. If you have, or know about, examples please send me an email - alan@luminous-lint.com
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Exhibition: Different versions of Photographs
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| Feb 5, 2012 | William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples | |
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The photographs in this online exhibition are taken from William de Wiveleslie Abney Thebes and its Five Greater Temples, (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876) in the collection of the University of Heidelberg Library.
William de Wiveleslie Abney was in Egypt in 1874 to photograph the Transit of Venus and whilst awaiting that event took photographs of the archaeological monuments of Thebes. As he was on an official scientific expedition he was well equipped and accompanied by three members of the Royal Engineers of the British Army - and their names are given in the Preface to his 1876 book as Corporals Laffeaty, Milne, and Farr. There is a discrepancy in the names as in "Paper IX. The Recent Transit of Venus" by Captain Abney, R.E. p.73 in Papers on Subjects connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers, New Series XXIII, 1876 they are given as Sapper Laffeaty, 2nd Corpl. Mitre and Sapper W. Farr.
The quality of these tipped-in albumen plates is exceptional and reflects well on the training of the team.
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Exhibition: William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples
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| Feb 5, 2012 | Enrico Van Lint: Ricordo di Pisa | |
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This online exhibition shows the type of souvenir album that could be purchased when visiting tourist sites in the nineteenth century. The album was created by the notable photographer of Pisa Enrico Van Lint (1808-1884) and there is a biography kindly provided by Giovanni Fanelli. Many thanks to Christoph Laubsch for providing this example from his collection.
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Exhibition: Enrico Van Lint: Ricordo di Pisa
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| Feb 5, 2012 | Woodward's Solar Enlarger - A personal story | |
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Collecting photography is a long term passion and this online exhibition traces the story as Matt Isenburg, one of the leading American collectors of nineteenth century photography and a caring friend, tells how he took forty years to acquire a Woodward's Solar Enlarger from his friend Frank. Read the introduction to understand the passion for collecting.
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Exhibition: Woodward's Solar Enlarger - A personal story
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| Feb 1, 2012 | The Afghan Box Camera Project 2012 | |
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Curated by
The Afghan Box Camera Project
Afghan Box Camera Project
Lukas Birk & Sean Foley
Editorial note
Firstly a disclaimer - I do not know and have not met the people who run this project.
Secondly - I haven't used Luminous-Lint to back projects financially because I feel it is not appropriate but here I'm making an exception.
The Afghan Box Camera Project is timely and significant as it is documenting a way of taking photographs that is vanishing around the world and deserves to be recorded. The Afghan Box Camera Project has clearly demonstrated that they are serious, have thought it through, and have done an excellent job and will continue to do so - it deserves our support.
Help out if you can - thanks, Alan Griffiths
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KickStarter - Afghan Box Camera Project 2012
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Exhibition: Afghan Box Camera Project
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| Jan 31, 2012 | 26.5 million is not a small number... | |
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My memory can be terrible and I forget bits of software I've written. Yesterday I found a bit I wrote in late 2007 that has been logging page views on www.luminous-lint.com since then. I just checked and there have been 26.5 million page views since January 2008. Currently it is running at well over 500,000 a month so I think some of you may be interested in photography.
[Posted to Facebook: 31 January 2012]
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Jan 22, 2012
** Ongoing **
Help required | Paintings and prints based on photographs or vice versa | |
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It can be difficult to locate examples of paintings that have provably been based on photographs, or vice versa, and so this exhibition brings together some notable examples and it will be improved over time. If you have examples let us all know.
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Exhibition: Paintings and prints based on photographs or vice versa
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Jan 22, 2012
** Ongoing **
Help required | Photographs that are stylistically similar to paintings | |
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At certain times people have sought to raise the "artistic" value of photography by showing how similar it was, or is, to painting. Within pictorialism "hand-worked" prints were the natural way to go with this and although it was a dead end as it denied what made photography unique it was a significant period in widening the acceptance of photography as an art form. This exhibition brings together a series of photographs that demonstrate how photographers have been influenced stylistically by painting and printmaking.
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Exhibition: Photographs that are stylistically similar to paintings
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| Jan 22, 2012 | Art and Photography | |
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This online exhibition is an overview for educational use of issues surrounding art and photography.
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Exhibition: Art and Photography
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Jan 22, 2012
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Help required | Photographic reproductions of works on paper and canvas | |
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One of the earliest applications of photography was the reproduction of artworks and Joseph Nicéphore Niépce did this in the 1820s with his work on the portrait of Cardinal d'Amboise. Henry Fox Talbot in The Pencil of Nature , published in 1844, included a "Fac-simile of an Old Printed Page" (Part 2, pl.9), a " Copy of a Lithographic Print" (Part 2, pl.11) and "Hagar in the Desert" (Part 6, pl.23) to stress the importance that photography would have in historical and art research. As photography developed some photographers and companies specialized in selling copies of masterpieces of art history and this exhibition includes texts on these and the associated legal issues over copyright protection of photographs.
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Exhibition: Photographic reproductions of works on paper and canvas
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