Leopoldo Alinari - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Leopoldo Alinari
Pisa, Battistero Nr. 88
1852 (ca)

Salt print
34.0 x 26.1

Private collection of Marco C. Antonetto

Still life: Eggs - New exhibition on Luminous-Lint

Jefferson Hayman
Still Life
2004

Gelatin silver print
5 x 6 in

Provided by the artist - Jefferson Hayman

A new online exhibition, curated by Alan Griffiths, has been added to Luminous-Lint showing how eggs have been incorporated into photographs.

“When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.”
Pablo Picasso
(Spanish Artist, 1881-1973)

Many thanks to all the museums, galleries, dealers and collectors who are supplying images for this exhibition.

With special thanks to:

William Coupon, Jefferson Hayman, Beth Hinrichs, T.O. Immisch (Stiftung Moritzburg), Jens Knigge, Mikhail Kudish, Anne Arden McDonald, Vik Muniz, Burton Pritzker, Ron Reeder, Franziska Schmidt (Villa Grisebach Auktionen GmbH), Vivienne Silver-Brody, David Spahr, Dick Swift, Maggie Taylor and Jerry N. Uelsmann

for additional photographs, information leads and advice.

If you can assist in locating images of eggs by Aenne Biermann, Hans Finsler, Walter Peterhans or other notable photographers not included in this exhibition I would be most appreciative. This exhibition will evolve as other intriguing examples appear and I'm particularly seeking 19th century examples.

Alan Griffiths
alan@luminous-lint.com

There is an online exhibition of this series on Luminous-Lint.

Kusakabe Kimbei - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Kusakabe Kimbei
Man with tattoes
1889 (ca)

Albumen print, tinted
7 3/4x9 3/4 in (19.8x25.7 cm)

Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, May 15, 2008, #2146, Lot 280)

There is an online exhibition of other 19th century photographs of Japan on Luminous-lint.

Art Green - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Art Green
WWII press photo. "Battle Stations" shows the body of a gunner slumped over his wrecked shipboard station
n.d.

Gelatin silver print
9 ¼ x 7 ¼ in

Be-Hold
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 99)

Kamil Vojnar: Flying Blind - Exhibition available on Luminous-Lint

Kamil Vojnar
Free Fall
[Flying Blind]
2006

Mixed Media on canvas
20 x 20 in

Verve Gallery of Photography

"I am trying to explore corners of our souls, where emotions reside. Emotions as reactions to the world outside and conflicting emotions of our most private worlds within. Because don't we cry from immense sadness, but from happiness as well? " (Kamil Vojnar)

Thanks to Kamil Vojnar and the Verve Gallery of Photography for their assistance with this exhibition.

There is an online exhibition of this series on Luminous-Lint.

Bisson frères - Luminous-Lint Photograph of the Day

Bisson frères
Chapiteaux romans
1854-1857 (ca)

Varnished salt or albumen print from paper negative on original mount
28.4 x 25 cm

Galerie Daniel Blau

Exhibition of Rena Small: Artist's Hands available on Luminous-Lint

Rena Small
Mildred Howard, San Francisco, CA
[Artist's Hands]
1999

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Rena Small
© Rena Small 2008

Following the online exhibition Portraits: Parts of body: Hands that went up on Luminous-Lint in June 2008 I was contacted by Rena Small about a series of photographs that she has been taking for over twenty years of the hands of artists.

As Rena relates in her introduction:

"...their hands move unconsciously while we talk shop about their work, ideas, passions from their heart and I listen, respond as the elements of performance art are activated in the art making process too. My role is to simply stop them when I observe the gestures that are crucial for some unknown reasons. That is the art of it for me, those unknown moments of reason."

With grateful thanks to Rena and all the artists who have participated in this project since 1984 and for their permission to include their thoughts and reflections.

There is an online exhibition of this series on Luminous-Lint.