The Mexican Suitcase

R.I.P. Marc Lagrange

TENERIFE. 25/12/2015. Christmas. Antwerp photographer Marc Lagrange died in road accident in Tenerife. He built an international reputation with his artistic nude photography. His book Diamonds and Pearls in 2013 was published worldwide.

Diamond and Pearls photographs on www.marclagrange.com

He had something in common with Helmut Newton which is female nudity photography. Newton's work was more filmic compared to the work of Marc Langrange.

Jeff Curto's Cyanotype Podcast link

Cyanotype

Modernity and Realism Pt 1: Becoming Modern

Brownie history

HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY PODCAST 10 : THE KODAK BROWNIE

Image First Brownie shipped in 1900
Brownie Name
Brownie in motion project

Jeff Curto's History of photography podcast series introduction.

Jeff Curto's History of photography introduction. First of Jeff Curto's History of photography podcasts. An introduction.

Name mentioning in Reference work "De Belgische Beeldende Kunstenaars" by art historian Paul Piron.

Vandaag bericht ontvangen van kunsthistoricus Paul Piron (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Piron) dat ik word vermeld in de nieuwe uitgave van het naslagwerk "De Belgische Beeldende Kunstenaars", waarvan de eerste publicatie verscheen in 1999. Today I received a message from art historian Paul Piron. My name is mentioned in the new publication of reference work "De Belgische Beeldende Kunstenaars." First publication 1999.

Mary Allen Mark

Mary Allen Mark

Autochrome

• Autochrome 

• Heinrich_Kühn

Lost in Nepals quake but preserved in photos

Lost in quake Nepal but preserved in photos

Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky

Book – Nostalgia: The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II Captured in Colored Photographs by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia

Timeline

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry

History of photographers who prefer the streets to the museum

Photography against the walls

Susan Meiselas

Susan Meiselas

Jeff Curto's website

website history of photography by Jeff Curto

Jeff Curto's links

Moma

objectphoto

Wonderland by Kirsty Mitchell

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2015/03/27/daughter-channels-grief-into-stunning-wonderland-photos/

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent: Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition

http://mskgent.be/en/exhibitions/2015/agenda-2015

http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/Culture/1.2264403

Other names of women in the early years op photography are Anna Atkins, Geneviève Elizabeth Disdéri, Lady Clementine Hawarden, Mrs. John Dillwyn Llewelyn and Constance Talbot in Europe and Mary Ann Meade in the United States. (Rosenblum 2007, 52)
Book link...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-History-Photography-Naomi-Rosenblum/dp/0789209373/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Rosenblum, N. (2007) A world history of photography

Visit 04/05/2015 4 Apr 2015 Annick Vanderschelden ‘Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Pioneer of Photography’ Exhibition Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent. Organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum. London.14.3-14.6.2015 About Cameron’s unsharp albumen photographs. One of the reasons I wanted to visit this exhibition is that I’d like to view the albumen prints. How do they look? So I wanted to see the end result of the wet-plate collodion negative-positive process introduced by Frederick Scott Archer in 1850-51. With this negative-positive process one could achieve a better sharpness compared to William Henry Fox Talbot’s negative-positive process (1841). Talbot’s paper negative versus Archer’s better glass plate negative without paper fibers. Due to Archer’s process one could more or less combine the quality or sharpness of the Daguerreotype (to a certain extent) which was one of a kind image and the ability to make multiple prints which was possible through the Calotype or Talbotype. But of course Julia Margaret Cameron’s images are different. They’re not sharp. On the contrary they’re out-of-focus or the sitter moved during exposure resulting in an unsharp image. Although some of the sitters are almost in focus such as the portrait of Julia Jackson (1867). But most of them are quite unsharp. For a moment I thought her well known portraits of John Frederick Herschel (1867) and Charles Darwin (1868) were sharper compared to most of her work. In that respect I thought about her the sitting of Hershel writing: ‘When I have such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavoured to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man.’ After all she started photographing at the age of 48 as an empty nester and was introduced to photography by that same Hershel, a scientist by the way. Maybe here she just tried to achieve a better photograph technically spoken. But I don’t think so because after all she was the most flamboyant of seven sisters known for their artistic eccentricity and other famous people portraits are totally unsharp. William Klein’s answer to Henry Cartier-Bresson’s kind of romantic photography and rules was an iconoclastic one. Maybe she was an iconoclast or at least rule-breaking in her Victorian England. Probably she broke the photography rules on purpose and maybe it’s good thing a scientist introduced her to photography and thus avoiding the photo school effect as John Szarkowski would put it later on. Picture is manipulated iPhone pic wet-plate collodion cameras such as being used by Julia Margaret Cameron.

History of photography website by Jeff Curto

http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com

The genius of photography Part 3

http://watchdocumentary.org/watch/the-genius-of-photography-episode-03-right-time-right-place-video_41bb1deea.html
The genius of photography Part 3

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The genius of photography Part 2

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v7279508h5dT6DeQ
Watch Genius of photography - 2 in Entertainment  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

James Agee "The camera seems to me....the central instrument of our time."

Karl Blossfeldt

Anna Atkins

The genius of photography part1

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v6979965Z5ZpMaRd
Watch Genius of Photography - 1 in Entertainment  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com Another link:

The Genius Of Photography Deel 1 from Marcel Wiegerinck on Vimeo.

James VanDerZee

James VanDerZee in The Art Institute of Chicago
Jeff Curto's History of photography podcast 4 about James VanDerZee
Funerary portraits "VanDerZee applied a darkroom technique he used in some of his studio portraits to his funerary photographs, using photo montage to insert poems and spiritual imagery around the subject" Read more: Death in Harlem: James VanDerZee’s Funerary Portraits