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 often superb advertisements, taken from ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, 1928-31.
Visual Culture
A selection of advertisements for popular consumer products from the magazine EVERYBODY’S, 1951-54.
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 advertisements, taken from SATURDAY EVENING POST, 1949 and featuring fourteen different names.
Visual Culture
A selection of architectural studies of wooden clapboard churches (late C19th – early C20th), photographed in America in 1972. Locations include Wardensville (West Virginia), Elk Park (North Carolina), Fannetsburg (Pennsylvania), and many others.
Visual Culture
A selection of magnificent full-colour cover illustrations by Andre Gill, from the magazine L”ECLIPSE for the year 1868/69. Superb examples of bold and extravagant caricature.
Visual Culture
Various examples (mainly Victorian) of architectural embellishment to be found in Newcastle upon Tyne. Photographed in 1976.