Doug Dubois - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Doug Dubois
Untitled
[Barbershop, Avella, PA]
1994-1997

C-print
20 x 24 in

Provided by the artist - Doug Dubois

LL/30321

Lori Nix - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Lori Nix
Library
[The City]
2007

C-print
Provided by the artist - Lori Nix

LL/30392

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
The Mothers Grave
1860s

Stereocard, detail
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)

LL/30138

Bill Eppridge - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Bill Eppridge
The burned master vintage print that was used for reproduction in LIFE magazine of Senator Robert F. Kennedy Shot, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, June 5, 1968
1968, 5 June

Gelatin silver print
16 x 20 in

Monroe Gallery Of Photography

LL/30407

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
Portrait of a female psychiatric patient, "Melancholia"
1875-1885 (ca)

Carte de visite
Private collection of John Toohey

LL/30379

Bob Gomel - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Bob Gomel
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali posing in front of the Alvin Theater during production of play "The Great White Hope", NY
1968

Gelatin silver print
16 x 20 in

Monroe Gallery Of Photography

LL/30423

Phyllis Galembo - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Phyllis Galembo
Atam Masquerader, Alok Village, Nigeria
[West African Masquerade]
2004

Ilfochrome
30 x 30 in

Steven Kasher Gallery
Courtesy of the Steven Kasher Gallery and the artist Phyllis Galembo

LL/30343

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
Moon partially eclipsed
1912, 1 April, 9:10 pm

Gelatin silver print
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs

LL/30257

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
{Three young ladies with long hair]
1905-1915 (ca)

Real photo postcard
Private collection of Brian Smolens

LL/30194

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
Portrait of a young woman in a black coat wearing a pink bow in her hair, and a pink bow and brooch at her throat.
n.d.

Tintype, whole plate, hand painted
J. Cosmas Vintage Photography

LL/30069

Littleton View Company - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Littleton View Company
1774 Heart and Hand
1896

Stereocard, double exposure, detail
Stereoviews: Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs
Courtesy of David Spahr (www.stereoviews.com)

LL/30066

Peter Feldstein & Stephen G. Bloom: The Oxford Project

Peter Feldstein
Book cover for Peter Feldstein "The Oxford Project" (Welcome Books, 2008)
[The Oxford Project]
2008

Book cover
Welcome Books

LL/30404

"In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every resident of his town, Oxford, Iowa (pop. 676). Twenty years later, he did it again. But this time those same residents did more than pose. With extraordinary honesty, they shared their memories, fantasies, failures, secrets and fears with writer Stephen G. Bloom. The result is a riveting collection of personal stories and portraits that tell much more than the tale of one small Midwestern town. Because beneath Oxford’s everyday surface, lives a complex and wondrous community that embodies the American spirit."

Thanks to Peter Feldstein, Stephen G. Bloom and Lena Tabori of Welcome Books for their assistance with this exhibition.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

Rick Dingus: An Evolving Retrospective

Rick Dingus
Mound That Recedes When Approached
[Navajo Places]
1992

16 x 20 in

Provided by the artist - Rick Dingus

LL/30739

Rick Dingus in this online exhibition on Luminous-Lint explores the nature of place as he describes in his introduction.

"I photograph places that interest me because they contain details that pose questions related to a broadly defined notion of "Landscape." I'm interested in any situation that prompts contemplation of the curiously complex connections we share with the larger patterns of existence. Remote wilderness and rural settings, vernacular byways, urban environments, ancient pathways, ruins, historic, mythic and spiritual pilgrimage sites, scientific and technological research facilities, folk and professional museums, shrines, collections, displays, and dioramas all fascinate me because these places reflect individual and collective responses, understandings, and a myriad of relationships to the same world I live in. I've shifted frames of reference continually, seeking new insights that might be hidden behind the details that are in plain view."

Thanks to Rick Dingus for his enthusiasm and assistance with this exhibition.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

Are you a passionate enthusiast and collector?

Do you collect photography-related items but don't have the desire or time to build a website?

Would you like to share your passion with fellow enthusiasts?

Well read on.... if you have a collection that relates to any area of the history of photography I'm interested.

• Photographs of combs, mountaineers and mountaineering, famous aviators, scientific equipment, feet or any other subject


• Studio stamps, signatures and portraits of photographers


• Early photographically illustrated books and exhibition catalogs


• The backs of carte-de-visites and cabinet cards


• Photographs of a particular region, locality or building


• Labels for photography societies and exhibitions


• Every model of Brewster stereocard viewer

Whatever your interest in photography is, and even if your partner and friends no longer want to hear about it, I do. If you have fellow enthusiasts who would like to work together to pool knowledge and examples even better. For some online exhibitions on Luminous-Lint we bring together teams of people to work collaboratively and that is rewarding for everyone.

I'll need a set of images, a caption list and a short introduction. It's a very straight forward process - so no matter what aspect of photography you are passionate and knowledgeable about send me your idea for an exhibition and we'll discuss it.

Best,
Alan
alan@luminous-lint.com

Sarony - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Sarony
Bayard Taylor
1850s (ca)

Carte de visite
Private collection

LL/30063

Ogawa Kazumasa - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Ogawa Kazumasa
XXII. Nagara Gawa Railway Bridge
[The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891]
1891 (taken) 1892 (printed)

Halftone, possibly the Meisenbach process
Private collection

LL/30060

Frederick H. Evans - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Frederick H. Evans
Wells Cathedral: A Sea of Steps
1903

Platinum print
23.4 x 19.2 cm

Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc.

LL/30028

Thomas Kellner - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Thomas Kellner
66#07 Mexico, Munal (Museo Nacional de Arte)
[Dancing Walls]
2006

C-print
68.2 x 90 cm / 26.6 x 35.1 in

Provided by the artist - Thomas Kellner

LL/30051

The Roz Leibowitz Collection: Snapshot Disasters

Anon.
dog
[Snapshot Disasters]
1955

Gelatin silver print, snapshot
3 x 5 in

Private collection of Roz Leibowitz

LL/30869

Soon after I put up the recent exhibition on Abstract: Multiple exposures - Snapshots on August 22, 2008 I received an enthusiastic email from Roz Leibowitz of New York with the generous offer of some additional images. In a flurry of emails I learnt that Roz is passionate about the snapshot and so we decided to do an online exhibition on Snapshot Disasters and her CD arrived through yesterday. We are entering a weird world here as Roz explains in her introduction:

"First it was the light flashes, which I still believe are a sign of other worlds making their presence known on this plane. Then it was the hidden writing on the back or even the front of the photos. Such a perfect matching of text and image still takes my breath away. Then I noticed the multiple exposures. ‘She clicked it twice!‘ a woman named Nell screams from the back of a snapshot I call ‘whole lotta shaken going on‘. That’s the rational explanation. And professionals can tell me where all these lights and orbs and lines and streaks come from. I do not care. Nell knew what I know, that the snapshot disaster is often the one we remember and save for others to share."

It takes a collector with a different view of the world to preserve these visual oddities and thanks to Roz for sharing items from her collection. With the help of collectors around the world we are able to share themes in the ever-evolving history of photography that have rarely been seen. I know I keep saying it but thanks to you all for your support.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
Untitled
1940 (ca)

Gelatin silver print, double exposure
3.5 x 2.5 in

Private collection of David & Kim Leggett

LL/30035

Frederick H. Evans - Luminius-Lint Photograph of the Day

Frederick H. Evans
Section through a Shell of the Nautilus
1900-1915 (likely)

Gelatin silver print
21.9 x 17.0 cm.

Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc.

LL/30029

Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) - Request for examples

Carleton E. Watkins
#4504 Santa Monica Landing
[Watkin's New Series]
n.d.

Stereoview
Jefferson Stereoptics
Courtesy of John Saddy (Auction, Tues. August 29th & Thurs. August 31st, 2006, # 06-3, Lot 27)

LL/13793

Norman Kulkin of Select Vernacular just sent me an email that is an excellent idea and I'd like to see what we can do as a community of fellow enthusiasts.

The Getty Center in Los Angeles is about to have an exhibition Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California (October 14, 2008–March 1, 2009) and the press release says:

"Dialogue among Giants presents the photographs of Carleton Watkins (American, 1829-1916) in the context of the birth and evolution of photography in California. The exhibition considers the social, political, economic, and artistic developments in California between the time of statehood in 1850 and the mid-1880s. It includes approximately 150 works, from daguerreotypes by unknown makers to mammoth-plate photographs by Watkins and his contemporaries."

A Catalog Raisonne of his approximately 1,300 plus mammoth plates is being prepared by Weston Naef for a forthcoming book.

What you can do to assist

I'd like to hear from collectors, dealers and galleries with examples of the photographs of Carleton Watkins that we can include in an online exhibition on Luminous--Lint to coincide with the exhibition at the Getty Center. All ideas, links and scans gratefully received - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com

The Hill Collection: Architectural Photography in the 19th Century

Giacomo Brogi
Milano, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
1870 (ca)

Albumen print from glass plate negative
25 x 19 cm (image)

Private Collection of Robert G. Hill, Toronto, Ont.
www.hillcollection.com - Acc: 584

To develop a significant collection requires knowledge, a desire to learn and passion. By concentrating on a single theme, period or technique the collection is honed and this is what Toronto-based architect, architectural historian and architectural photographer Robert G. Hill has achieved. His collection of over 1,000 prints from the mid-19th century is over 90% albumen prints and focuses exclusively on architecture.

The collection includes works by the masters of 19th century architectural photography including the Alinari Brothers, Gioacchino Altobelli, James Anderson, Edouard Baldus,Antoine Beato, Henri Bechard, Francis Bedford, Auguste R. Bisson, Felix Bonfils, Samuel Bourne, Adolphe Braun, Domenico Bresolin, Giacomo Brogi, Charles Clifford, Pietro Dovizielli, Roger Fenton, Francis Frith, Juan Laurent, Robert Macpherson, Charles Marville, Carlo Naya, Etienne Neurdien (ND), Antonio Perini, Carlo Ponti, Pompeo Pozzi, Achille Quinet, James Robertson, Pascal Sebah, Giorgio Sommer, Charles Soulier, James Valentine and George W. Wilson.

I'd like to thank Robert G. Hill for his patience and enthusiasm in sharing these prints from his remarkable collection. As Robert wrote in an email "I hope this generates some interest in the subject of architectural photography." - I'm sure it will given these examples.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anonymous
[Figure study]
1950 (ca)

Gelatin silver print, double exposure
Select Vernacular Photographs / Norman Kulkin

LL/30022

Case & Draper - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Case & Draper
S.A. Crawford on the Summit of White Pass [British Columbia]
1905, 3 September

Photographic print
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection [LC-DIG-ppmsc-01711]

LL/29786

Phyllis Galembo: West African Masquerade

Phyllis Galembo
Mami Wata Mask, Cross River, Nigeria
[West African Masquerade]
2004

Ilfochrome
30 x 30 in

Steven Kasher Gallery
Courtesy of the Steven Kasher Gallery and the artist Phyllis Galembo

LL/30362

At the Fowler Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles there was a remarkable exhibition on Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas (April 6 - August 10, 2008) that showed the material complexity of a highly significant spiritual personality within the traditions and beliefs of Africa and the African Atlantic. Mama Wata, the water spirit with numerous guises, is one of the cast of characters who appears in this exhibition by New York-based photographer Phyllis Galembo.

Since 1997 Phyllis has attended festivals or sought out the masked performers who participate in the rituals of Benin, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. She has also followed the paths of the African diasporas to the Caribbean and recorded carnival in Haiti. Her portraits of costumed performers show us the material culture of the spirit world - the fashions of belief.

Thanks to Phyllis Galembo for her assistance with this exhibition.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

F. Florán - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

F. Florán
Telescopio traído por la Comisión Francesa para fotografíar el tránsito de Venus frente al Sol (Bragado, Provincia de Buenos Aires)
1882

Albumen print
Private collection of Roberto A. Ferrari

LL/30027

Thomas Kellner: Dancing Walls

Thomas Kellner
66#11 Mexico, Basilica de Guadelupe
[Dancing Walls]
2006

C-print
68.2 x 69.7 cm / 26.6 x 27.2 in

Provided by the artist - Thomas Kellner

LL/30052

From the introduction to this new exhibition on Luminous-Lint of the works of Thomas Kellner:

Each photographic work since 1997 is methodically made up of horizontally placed film strips of up to one thousand two hundred and sixty nine individual pictures. Every single one of these smaller images were taken with the camera from a slighlty shifted perspective and subsequently combined into an overall picture, creating an entirely new image. As an artistic photomontage – originally fused as a group of film strips, then as an exposed contact print, presently prepared digitally – each large-scale color photograph reveals its creation process upon closer inspection. With this his approach Thomas Kellner stands together with traditional procedures in photography history that examine not only the camera as an apparatus for producing images, but also the process in which we perceive images.

“Kellner is closer to David Hockney and his idea of grasping something with multiple pictures, since a single photograph simply isn’t enough. (…) Thus, Thomas Kellner does not photograph architecture, but perceptions of architecture. He reconstructs our picture memory. He doesn’t document, he archives.”

Reinhold Misselbeck, former Curator of Photography, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in: Eikon Vol. 38, Vienna, Austria, 2002

Thanks to Thomas Kellner for his help with this exhibition.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
{Streetlight abstractionl]
n.d.

Snapshot, Double exposure
Private collection of Nigel Maister

LL/29866

Newsletter 2.12 - Sept 7, 2008 has been emailed

Luminous-Lint Newsletter 2.12 - Sept 7, 2008 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. Thanks to everybody for your help with this group of exhibitions a lot of rarely seen work has arrived in recently. Best, Alan

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anonymous
[Motorcyclist]
1930s (ca)

Gelatin silver print, double exposure
Select Vernacular Photographs / Norman Kulkin

LL/30026

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
2-headed boy
1900 (ca)

Tintype, double exposure
Private collection of Andrew Daneman
Andrew Daneman Collection of American Tintypes

LL/30013

Real Photo Postcards - Portraits: The Brian Smolens Collection

Anon.
[Boy on tricycle]
1905-1915 (ca)

Real photo postcard
Private collection of Brian Smolens

LL/30531

During this week I've been contacted by three private collectors with extraordinary material and over the coming weeks exhibitions will be appearing on Luminous-Lint. One of these collections has been amassed over the last 35 years by Brian Smolens and consists of over 8,500 American real photo postcard portraits. The real photo postcard in the USA was a specific photographic format that was popular from about 1905 until 1920. Although the more widely known picture postcards were printed mass-market items, the real photo postcards comprising the archive are individually developed photographs. Many were unique prints originally and most of the remainder are the only surviving copies.

Although there are a few highly sophisticated collectors of real photo postcards, such as cosmetics executive Leonard Lauder, most photography dealers and collectors remain unaware of the significance of this photographic format. One of the truly great real photo postcard collections to be created was assembled by Andreas Brown, noted New York bookseller and author of Prairie Fires and Paper Moons: The American Photographic Postcard, 1900-1920. Much of the Andreas Brown collection was subsequently sold to The J. Paul Getty Museum, but is not believed to be publicly exhibited.

Thanks to Brian for sharing some of his remarkable collection and in discussions I gather that he is interested in selling the entire archive. Given the scale and quality of the collection this is a rare opportunity for an institutional purchase.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

It Was Forty Years Ago Today...

Joseph Louw
Dr. Martin Luther King assassination, Memphis, Tenn.
[LIFE Magazine Photographers]
1968, 4 April

Gelatin silver print
16 x 20 in

Monroe Gallery Of Photography
© Time Inc.

This new exhibition on Luminous-Lint examines the 1960s through the famous images of the period. Eddie Adams and the Street execution of a Viet Cong prisoner, Saigon (1968), the Bill Eppridge images of Senator Robert F. Kennedy on the night he was shot, Joseph Louw on the Dr. Martin Luther King assassination, Memphis, Tenn. and the overtly political 1968 Olympics Black Power salute taken by John Dominis - these are the images that serve as the mental "post-its" for significant historical moments of the 1960s.

Thanks to Sid Monroe and the Monroe Gallery (Santa Fe) for his assistance with this exhibition of iconic images.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

Toni Frissell - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Toni Frissell
[Victoria Station, London]
1951

Photographic print
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [LC-USZC4-4320]

LL/29830

Anon. - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Anon.
Encouraged by the photographer --
1920 (?)

Drawing, charcoal and wash
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Cabinet of American Illustration [CAI - Fuhr, no. 32 (A size)]

LL/29782

Chen Jiagang: The Great Third Front

Chen Jiagang
The Great Third Front #11
[The Great Third Front]
2008

C-print
Edwynn Houk Gallery
© Chen Jiagang, Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

LL/30440

Chinese contemporary photography is a vibrant mix of the old and new with commercial astuteness blended into a questioning of socio-cultural values. Chen Jiagang's photographs examine the industrial legacy of the "Third Front" of the 1960s when heavy industry was moved from border regions towards the more secure interior.

A self-described expressionist photographer, Jiagang’s photographs conjure a type of industrial fairy tale. With the digital addition of an element of the fantastic, a young girl elegantly dressed in the Maoist collar and dress (Qipao), Jiagang’s photographs allude to a former glory, a nostalgia for a period now lost to the more powerful forces propelling China into the future.

Thanks to the Edwynn Houk Gallery (New York) for their assistance with this exhibition.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

Sarony - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Sarony
Sarony, N.Y., photographing me
1872-1925

Drawing, pen and ink
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Cabinet of American Illustration [CAI - Furniss, no. 3 (A size)]

LL/29780

Doug Dubois - Barbershop

Doug Dubois
Untitled
[Barbershop, Avella, PA]
1994-1997

C-print
20 x 24 in

Provided by the artist - Doug Dubois

LL/30322

Thanks to Doug Dubois for granting permission to include his Barbershop series on Luminous-Lint.

"In the mid 1990’s, I spent much of my summer photographing in Avella, a vanishing Pennsylvania coal town located at the edge of the West Virginia panhandle. There are no restaurants in Avella, only a few mean looking bars that I wasn’t ready to enter. To get out of the heat, my only choice was the barbershop.

The pictures I made of the customers took three summers to get right. The first set suffered from an uneven light that left their feet dark and out of focus. The second summer had better lighting but the back door was sometimes open, sometimes closed.

By the third summer, the barber, Dominic, took control. After each haircut he would announce my intentions: This fellow wants to take your picture. He teaches college out in New Mexico. He's doing a project on Avella. His Grandparents came from here.

Without waiting for a response he would turn the chair to a profile, shut the back door and tell me to hurry up and take the damn picture.

What I garnished from those three summers was more than the skills required to photograph in a barbershop. During the haircuts, I listened carefully to the stories and conversations. Some of the talk centered on their ageing bodies – hemorrhoids being an almost universal complaint. But in essence, the barbershop was the place for male gossip: a lively mix of politics and nostalgia with a more than a few dirty jokes on the side. It was my entrée into the life of the town and my first successful attempt at making portraits in a series."

Doug Dubois
Sept 1, 2008

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

Scientific: Astronomical Snapshots - 1911-1915

Anon.
Partial Eclipse of Moon
1911, 16 November, 11:00 pm

Gelatin silver print
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs

LL/30248

This exhibition on Luminous-Lint highlights the work of an anonymous British amateur who was taking astronomical photographs between 1911 and 1915. It includes a series of photographs of Comet Brooks taken between August 14 and October 11, 1911, partial lunar and solar eclipses and a variety of nebulae, galaxies, stars and solar spectra.

We may never know who took these photographs but there is a strange fascination with the slow build up of expectation over the sixteen photographs that make up the Comet Brooks series from the first sighting to its rise to brillance and eventual passing. His observations may have been curtailed by the First World War (1914-1918) but this is not certain.

Thanks to Christopher Wahren for his assistance with this exhibition.

There is an online exhibition on Luminous-Lint.

Albrecht Tübke - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Albrecht Tübke
Untitled
[Twins]
2000-2004

C-print
15 x 18 in

Provided by the artist - Albrecht Tübke

LL/29998