http://search39.midley.co.uk/ Notable websites, sources of information and events concerning photography and related arts and sciences. Attention is focussed on the history of photography. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html en-gb Copyright: (C) Midley History of early Photography (R. Derek Wood) http://search39.midley.co.uk/Midley_logo_56.gif http://search39.midley.co.uk/ Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:34:10 GMT Le Monde 04.10.08 - "Picasso et les maitres": trois expositions, au Grand Palais, au Louvre et au Musée d'Orsay confrontent, à partir du 8 octobre et pour quatre mois, plus de deux cents oeuvres des plus grands peintres anciens, de Titien à Goya, et les reprises, variations et métamorphoses qu'elles ont inspirées à l'artiste espagnol. Une telle rencontre n'a jamais été tentée, et jamais ces trois lieux ne s'étaient associés pour une exposition... http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/10/04/picasso-goya-manet-le-troc-de-l-annee_1102999_3246.html http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/10/04/picasso-goya-manet-le-troc-de-l-annee_1102999_3246.html Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:33:30 GMT Politics and Photography in Apartheid South Africa by D. L. Krantz ; Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe... by A. Hammond ; Displaced 'Origins': ...Talbot's The Pencil of Nature by V. Maimon ; Robert Gill and his Circle of Friends in India by D. Patel ; Mary A. Bartlett Illustrator of Children's Books by C. A. Peterson ; ...Photography at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition of 1904 by R. Rogers ; Dogs, Casts and Daguerreotypes in Two Letters to Horatio Walpole by C. Collier ; ...Reminiscence Touching on Margaret Bourke-White by T. Eisner http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g903334128~db=all http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g903334128~db=all Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:26:40 GMT Victorine Meurent, has often been dismissed as a drunk and a prostitute. But as V R Main discovers (The Guardian, Friday Oct 3 2008), she was actually an ambitious artist. Picture the predicament. She is 18, working-class, poor, with a secret ambition to become an artist. He is 30, rich, aristocratic, and a painter... http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/03/women.manet http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/03/women.manet Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:13:35 GMT Liz Jobey (Guardian, Thu October 2) looks at the latest Magnum anthology, spanning six decades of the greatest images in photojournalism: If there were a biopic called The Magnum Story, about the international photographic agency that celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, it would open on a tram travelling down the Boulevard Montparnasse in 1933... http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/02/magnum.photography http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/02/magnum.photography Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:23:35 GMT "Last Three Days of the Daguerreotype. The Subscribers beg most respectfully to inform the Public that owing to their engagements at Quebec their Daguerreotype Rooms can only remain open for the above named period." - Gazette [Montreal], Saturday, Sept. 26, 1840. The "subscribers," Andrew Halsey and Henry Sadd, were onto something... to become the first commercial photographers in what's now the province of Quebec... (John Kalbfleisch, The Gazette (Montreal), Sun, Sept 28, 2008)... http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/story.html?id=31b19f5a-845d-4a61-b632-ba023d76b7fc http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/story.html?id=31b19f5a-845d-4a61-b632-ba023d76b7fc Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:20:40 GMT By Alan Trachtenberg, full text of article from Social Research. vol 75, No 1, Spring 2008: As represented in Blade Runner the kind of picture known as "photograph" (written in light, literally) conveys the traditional association of memory and history with photography. Today that simple idea of a light-based transparent nexus between photograph and a determinate past is undergoing radical reappraisal. The digital revolution... http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_1_75/ai_n27949310 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_1_75/ai_n27949310 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:07:50 GMT Exhibition at Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, Sept 27, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009. At no other time and place was the art of portraiture as rich in expressive potential as early 20th-century Paris. The cult of personality that drove the brilliant careers of Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, and Duchamp demanded new forms of human likeness... See also PDF file at www.brucemuseum.org/aboutus/press/ParisPortraits_PR.pdf http://www.brucemuseum.com/paris_site/learn.html http://www.brucemuseum.com/paris_site/learn.html Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:42:30 GMT A stunning new twist in the story of Capa's iconic war image shows that authenticity is more than just an artistic criterion. ...Was the secret that so tortured Capa the knowledge that without his intervention, Borrell might not have been shot? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/27/photography.pressandpublishing http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/27/photography.pressandpublishing Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:47:30 GMT Richard Avedon was not so much interested in politics as he was in power. His portraits, taken over 50 years, present a chronicle of America. Simon Schama (The Guardian, Sat. Sept 27 2008), who was once one of his subjects, describes the artist at work http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/27/photography http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/27/photography Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:46:39 GMT 'Karsh 100: A Biography in Images' at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, until Jan 19, 2009. It's indisputable that Yousuf Karsh was a very famous photographer and took some of the most famous portraits in the history of his medium. Fame and ubiquity are not the same thing as merit, though http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/09/23/seeing_karsh_in_a_different_light/ http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/09/23/seeing_karsh_in_a_different_light/ Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:39:39 GMT When he accepted a job at Condé Nast, Edward Steichen was criticised for "selling out" - but he turned commercial photography into a true art form. Prior to then [1923], Steichen had exemplified the photographer-as-artist, at a time when the medium was still struggling for acceptance as a legitimate art form http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2008/09/steichen-art-photography-conde http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2008/09/steichen-art-photography-conde Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:39:30 GMT This October, MoMA will publish The Printed Picture, a book by Richard Benson that traces the changing technology of picture making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies. An educational installation of the material will be presented in the Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, Oct 17, 2008 - June 1 2009 http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=9801 http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=9801 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:44:40 GMT 'America and the Tintype' at the International Center of Photography, New York, includes some 200 examples of this democratic form of image making from the museum's collection. The tintype was a populist medium from the very beginning... (New York Times, Sept 18, 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19tint.html?ref=design http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19tint.html?ref=design Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:56:20 GMT Issue 2, pp.115 - 238: Editorial. Articles by Geoffrey Batchen; Patrizia Di Bello; Matthew Kurtz; Sarah J. Kember; Mitchell Whitelaw; Peter Buse. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g902555472~db=all http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g902555472~db=all Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:23:20 GMT The 30 Years Congress of the European Society for the History of Photography ... a transdisciplinary perspective. Renowned photo historians and media theoreticians from Europe and abroad have been invited to deal with a broad spectrum of topics ranging from historical 19th century photography to the photography of our time. A congress volume (in English) is in press. Download PDF file of full Congress Programme: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/md/content/studium/kultur/zbw/eshph/eshph_congress_programme_2008.pdf http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/bildwissenschaft/partnerlinks/eshph/index.php http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/bildwissenschaft/partnerlinks/eshph/index.php Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:13:13 GMT