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Month: August 2017

Summer Pleasures: The Shadow Chasers

25 Aug 2017: (The Leader thinks he has no need for special glasses – where have I seen that before?) Have no fear that the half-century old headline on this Life magazine will tempt me down the wrong editorial path. I shall rise above this – way above it – in tribute to this week’s total solar eclipse. …

Summer Pleasures: ‘Good things come to those who wait’

18 Aug 2017: guest post by Brian Liddy Not all advertising slogans are popular, but Guinness’s ‘Good things come to those who wait’ is a favourite. I never thought I’d ever say this out loud, never mind bring it up in a blog, but when I think about the Talbot Catalogue Raisonné it reminds me of pint of …

Summer Pleasures: Algae in Blue, Auld Reekie in Brown, & Rooms In Your Head

11 Aug 2017: This has been a fruitful summer for photographic exhibitions. Not so much for the blockbuster kind that will provide fodder for hopeful art historians in the coming years, but more for ones that are important in that they dare to approach familiar subjects with solid grounding, a refreshing take and a bit of flare. I’ve …

Summer Pleasures: Slicing through Ishmael

4 Aug 2017: guest post by Brian Liddy First, may I raise a reminder that the Catalogue Raisonné is still in beta and is a very much a work in progress? Bearing that in mind, a current search for “Hagar in the Desert” already brings up a dozen variant negatives. Talbot chose this copy of a lithograph as …
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