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ILAB Library - All You Need To Know About Rare Books and the Antiquarian Book Trade
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[+] More Preserving the photographic heritage of the Middle East
Published since 18 Mar 2011"When Bank of America Merrill Lynch launched its $1m conservation grant programme in May 2010, the Arab Image Foundation (AIF), a Beirut-based non-profit organisation, applied and hoped for the best. When the recipients were announced, the young foundation was among distinguished institutions such as the Courtauld in London, the Hermitage in St Petersburg and Madrid’s Reína Sofia to have conservation projects selected. Now that the project is under way, the foundation’s director Zeina Arida admits she was surprised to be selected." Snippets from an article by Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper.
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[+] More A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase
Published since 13 Jan 2011For seven decades the negatives – known as “The Mexican Suitcase” – were considered lost. The photographs document the duration of the Spanish war, beginning with David Seymour's pictures of marching Republican dignitaries in April 1936, three months before the conflict broke out, and ending with Robert Capa's portraits of Republican refugees in concentration camps in Southern France in March 1939. Dan Kaufman tells the story of “The Mexican Suitcase” and describes the photographs hidden in it for such a long time.
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[+] More La photo qui parle - Rimbaud
Published since 05 Oct 2010Cinq mois après sa publication, la photographie de Rimbaud que nous avons retrouvée est devenue le plus documenté des neufs clichés connus où il apparaît. Elle date d'août 1880, et donc des tous premiers jours de la nouvelle vie de Rimbaud. Elle a été réalisée par l'explorateur Georges Révoil, qui a utilisé une technique toute nouvelle (c'est l'une des plus anciennes photos "instantanées" conservées en France).
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[+] More Rare Books, Book Illustration, and the DADA movement: Hannah Höch - Brushflurlets and Beer Bellies
Published since 01 Sep 2010Rare books, book illustration, book art and the DADA movement – Hannah Höch was born in Gotha, Germany. From 1912 to 1914 she studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin under the guidance of Harold Bergen. In 1915, Höch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausmann, since then she was involved in the Berlin Dada movement. She designed dress and embroidery patterns for Die Dame and Die Praktische Berlinerin, published by Ullstein. From 1926 to 1929 she lived and worked in the Netherlands. She was one of the leading DADA artists, and a pioneer of the photomontage. Her collages, photographs and illustrations were statements about life and art in the Dada movement – and are well-known to art and rare book collectors. Snippets …
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[+] More Did Ansel Adams take these photos? Are they worth $200 million? Depends who you ask
Published since 29 Jul 2010"Rick Norsigian, the antiques buff who bought a couple of boxes of old-fashioned glass-plate photographic negatives at a garage sale 10 years ago in Fresno, then set out to prove they were taken by Ansel Adams early in his career, is back in the news."
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[+] More Frank Hurley 1885-1962
Published since 13 May 2010Frank (James Francis) Hurley was an Australian photographer and film maker, and "one of the great Antarctic photographers of all time" (Michael Rosove). He joined Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914, the British, the Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-1931, he travelled with Ernest Shackleton to the Polar Regions and made films in Papua. Michael Treloar recounts the life of the artist and the adventurer.
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[+] More The Leaning Tower of Photography Books
Published since 06 Jan 2010One of the joys of dealing in modern literary first editions is the neat and nearly uniform size of the vast majority of one's inventory. Your basic octavo volume, when packed for a book fair, nestled convivially amongst its fellows, will fit neatly in a standard document storage box. After having done a few hundred fairs, one can pack up quickly and neatly, leaving no space in a box for the books to shuffle about, with the resultant deterioration in condition that loosely packed books usually suffer. I particularly recommend books of poetry and drama for this purpose – usually slim volumes that, when inserted between other books, tighten one's box load to a satisfying solidity.
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[+] More Photographically illustrated Books
Published since 15 Dec 2009It is widely known that in 1839 William Henry Fox Talbot invented the positive-negative system of photography that effectively was the medium until the digital age supplanted it 150 years later. It is less wellknown that from 1852 he concentrated on perfecting his photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure, which revolutionized high-quality book illustration and art reproduction from the 1880s.
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[+] More La photographie ancienne
Published since 08 Dec 2009The history of photography is closely connected with the history of rare book selling in the 20th century. The books and the covers that are illustrated by famous photographers like Laszlo Moholy-Nagy have become works of art - and attractive objects of the high end antiquarian book market. Serge Plantureux looks back in history.