Visual Culture
A selection of plates from ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS by Owen Jones, Day & Son, 1864.
Visual Culture Slides
In the early days of the Amber Collective, members took on paid work for colleges and broadcasters, and generated businesses, sharing the income amongst the group to allow them take their artistic practice forward. In 1972 Amber launched the Lambton Visual Aids slide library, producing sets of transparencies for Higher Education.
This imagery, created to illustrate potential lectures on a host of subjects, included copies of historical works and original slides alongside new images which included projects on: urban architecture, fairground arts, Blackpool Illuminations, shop fronts and other topics.
In addition to the images from the the Amber Film & Photography Collective, other photographers were commissioned to develop sets of slides in international topics under Lambton Visual Aids.
Visual Culture
A selection of magnifincent illustrations, featuring animals in human guises and activities, from DER GESANGVEREIN BRULLARIA UND SEIN STIFTUNGFEST, Ackermann, Munich, 1893. Illustrations by Ludwig Bechstein. And from KONIG NOBEL, EIN HEITERES BILDERBUCH, Wiskott, Breslau, no date (c 1880). Illustrations by Fedor Flinzer. Two books which exemplify both the hight quality of German children’s books and the bizarre nature of some of their illustrations. (For an English equivalent, see LVA 1010)
Visual Culture
A wide ranging selection of advertisements, usually for upmarket goods, and reflecting the style of the period. Taken from THE SPHERE 1915
Visual Culture
A selection of slides featuring Albert Dock – designed by Jesse Hartley and opened in 1846 – Liverpool’s first enclosed dock warehouse system. The selection includes general views of the dock, warehouses and bridges, and details of dock machinery. Photographed in 1978. 24 colour slides.
Visual Culture
A selection of exhibition kiosks, pavilions and posters from the Wembley Exhibition of 1924. Taken from EXHIBITIONS AND THE ART OF DISPLAY by Lawrence Weaver, Country Life, 1925.
Visual Culture
A selection of iron stoves and ranges, from portable cooking ranges to enormous kitchen ranges (‘suitable for public institutions, mansions, asylums’) taken from the catalogue of Dobbie, Forbes & Co, Larbert, Scotland, c 1910.
Visual Culture
A wide-ranging selection of Dunlop advertisements, covering a period of seven years, taken from ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, 1924-31. 23 colour and b/w slides.
Visual Culture
Beautiful lithographic illustrations from FAIENCERIES DE SARREGUEMINES DIGOIN ET VITRY, Paris, 1905
Visual Culture
A selection of illustrations from OUR OLD NURSERY RHYMES, Augener Ltd. 1911. Henriette Willebeek le Mair was born in 1889 and died in 1966.