| Aug 13, 2006 | Developments in progress | |
| | The speed of development is quite astounding and I'd just like to provide a few examples of work that has taken place over the last ten days. I just want to give a sense of the variety and scale of what is happening.
- The following exhibitions will be coming out shortly: Disderi, New York storefronts of the 1860s and 1870s, the 1894 Photo Club de Paris catalogue, autochrome examples from the French magazine L'Illustration, the remarkable WWI portfolio of Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud in its entirety, pinhole photography, plastic cameras and bromoil prints. Indeed there are so many under development that I can only list a few here.
- The Bromoil prints exhibitions are a good example of what is happening. Two parallel exhibitions are in preparation - the first on the historical prints is being curated by Gene Laughter and the second on contemporary bromoil prints is curated by artist Joy Goldkind. To show the variety of work we are delighted that the exhibition is being supported by the following artists Chuck Kimball, Peter Liepke, Eliza Massey, Maija McDougal, Emil Schildt, Henk Thijs and others. By combining the skills of historians, technical experts and practitioners we start to better understand the variety and historical continuities.
- I'd like to thanks all the experts who are assisting for example Mike Ware on cyanotypes, John Elliott on Woodbury, Jon Goodman on photogravure, William Alschuler and Hans Bjelkhagen on early color photography.
- Thanks also to the contemporary photographers and artists Vasco Ascolini, John Divola, Les Krims, Frank Robick and many others who are supplying portfolios.
The exhibitions on the site are not static and are undergoing continual refinement as new images and textual improvements are supplied by collectors and connoisseurs from around the world. If at anytime you feel you can improve an exhibition send me an email.
This website would not possible without the assistance of all the photographers, collectors, dealers and gallery owners who are supporting this project so actively. I have always said that with collaboration we can create a remarkable resource for everybody and that is proving to be the case. As always you have my best wishes and thanks, Alan.
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| Aug 3, 2006 | Commercial Portraiture of Camille Silvy | |
| | A wonderful collection of English CDVs is in the new exhibition on the Commercial Portraiture of Camille Silvy. This has been kindly prepared by Paul Frecker using the Day Books housed in the National Portrait Gallery in London that list 17,000 photographs. We would welcome information on surviving ledgers that list the sitters in a 19th century portrait studios.
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Exhibition: The Commercial Portraiture of Camille Silvy
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| Aug 3, 2006 | Pictorialism in 1890s Vienna | |
| | In Austria in 1896 the 'Das Kleebatt' (Cloverleaf) group in Vienna was founded by Hans Watzek (1848-1903), Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944) and Hugo Henneberg (1863-1918). To better understand this we have mounted up all the illustrations for the 1894 and 1896 issues of Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien.
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Exhibition: Wiener Photographische Blätter: Herausgegeben Vom Camera-Club In Wien (1894)
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| Jul 28, 2006 | Recent developments | |
| | Thanks to Mack Lee and Erin McGrath of the Lee Gallery (www.leegallery.com) for their remarkable assistance and generosity of spirit in providing biographies of 19th century photographers for the website. Their kind offer of thousands of jpg scans of 19th century works is a tremendous contribution and will provide an immense resource for all. They are also assisting in creating exhibitions on the work of Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alexander Gardner and Peter Henry Emerson.
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| Jul 27, 2006 | Collaborations with photographic magazines | |
| | On the contemporary side collaborations are being made with Daylight Magazine and Eyemazing to share some content. Through the assistance of John Paul Caponigro I will working to establish arrangements with Camera Arts to share some promotional activities. Thanks also to Stephen Perloff for including a note about the Luminous-Lint site in the Photograph Collector Newsletter one of the essential resources for serious collectors.
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| Jul 26, 2006 | Archiving the website for historical permanence | |
| | Weston Naef, curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, has suggested that a secure copy of the Luminous-Lint data and software should be kept at the Getty. As this website is growing very quickly and now contains a large amount of original and rare material this is essential and I will distribute copies on DVD to key institutions to ensure that the entire project is archived for the future.
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| Jul 25, 2006 | New exhibitions released | |
| | New exhibitions released:
- The "Henry Clay" case - with the help of Matt Isenburg.
- The Boer War (1899-1902) - Fabrications. This was created using images generously provided by John Saddy (www3.sympatico.ca/john.saddy.3d/).
- Albumen prints - Made possible through the assistance of many dealers, galleries and collectors.
Each of these exhibitions will improve as I get further information so you are cordially invited to send through corrections and additions. If there is an expert on the albumen print I would be very interested.
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| Jul 18, 2006 | Further exhibitions | |
| | We are moving into a phase of rapid development of exhibitions and I've recently added others - including some major works on documentary photography:
- Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow (1900)
- Edward Sheriff Curtis - The North American Indian - Portfolio IX (1967)
- Serge Levitsky - CDVs of celebrities and the aristocracy
- The work of Herbert Rose Barraud has been incorporated into the Woodburytypes exhibition.
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| Jul 17, 2006 | Woodburytypes and Salt Prints | |
| | An exhibition on Woodburytypes has been created and I'm looking for further examples. Alan Elliott has kindly provided the introduction.
The first part of a multi-part exhibition on Salt prints has been released.
SPECIAL NOTE: I'd like to thank all the anonymous collectors, historians and photographers who are working away behind the scenes to help bring exhibitions together. This website could not flourish without all your knowledge and support.
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| Jul 14, 2006 | Dealers in Fine Photography | |
| | I'd like to thank the photography dealers Carl Mautz (Nevada City) and Paul Frecker (London) for allowing me to include their material. The result of this collaboration is starting to appear with enhancements to the carte de visite and cabinet card exhibitions. Where dealers have specific collections of material that is appropriate for exhibitions this can be very useful. Immediate examples of this are in the exhibitions mounted in the last few days on nineteenth century "Russian Types" showing occupational CDVs from the 1860s and another series on the Passion Play at Oberammergau (1890).
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