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Dear friends of Art Blart. A call for help!Just putting this out there in the ether of the cosmos because you never know, its spirit might hear you.I am looking for a research fellowship or postdoc…Continue
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Started Nov 20, 2019
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Art Blart is a mainly photography based art and cultural memory archive that started in November 2009. The website has become a form of cultural memory, to record the passing of many photography exhibitions, to make comment on them and to archive the postings for future reference and research.
The website posts excellent quality images from all the major galleries around the world. The website has a readership of 1,500 people a day with over 5,000 Likes on Facebook. The website itself is being archived by Pandora from the National Library of Australia.
There is an archive of all blog posts both international and Australian with lots of my own writing and research under Marcus Bunyan Writings.
Dr Marcus Bunyan, Melbourne, Australia
What is interesting to me is not just Atkins choice of the new medium of photography to describe, both scientifically and aesthetically, the beauty and detail of her collection of seaweeds; but within that new medium of photography, she chose not the photogenic or calotype process, but the graphic cyanotype process with its vivid…
Posted on December 26, 2018 at 8:00
This portrait (below) shows Captain Alexander Leslie-Melville (1831-57), known as Lord Balgonie. He was the eldest son of the 8th Earl of Leven, a Scottish peer. Lord Balgonie served in the Grenadier Guards during the war, and died only a couple of years after returning to Britain. At the time, his death was attributed to the hardships of the war. Fenton has photographed him…
Posted on April 3, 2018 at 10:30
I grew up on a farm for the first thirteen years of my life. I played in the fields and forests of England, and wandered the cart paths with my brother. I saw him for the first time in thirty years last August, after the passing of my father. We went back and walked those very same paths where we grew up and looked at the magnificent trees planted along the edge of the…
Posted on March 26, 2018 at 10:00 — 1 Comment
November 2017: This was the best photography exhibition which wasn't an exhibition - because it was a "display" - that I saw on my recent trip to Europe. Why was it the best? Because this is what strong, insightful photography can do: it can capture life; it can document different cultures; and it can be a powerful agent for social change.
I remember London in the 1970s. I lived in Clapham (Claiff-ham Heights) and Stockwell (we called it St. Ockwell)…
ContinuePosted on November 22, 2017 at 10:00
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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