Visual Culture
Beautiful lithographic illustrations from FAIENCERIES DE SARREGUEMINES DIGOIN ET VITRY, Paris, 1905
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 illustrations from OUR OLD NURSERY RHYMES, Augener Ltd. 1911. Henriette Willebeek le Mair was born in 1889 and died in 1966.
Visual Culture
A selection of humorous, often ingenious, pictorial initials (always the first letter of a sentence) from PUNIANA, or THOUGHTS WISE & OTHER-WISE by the Hon. Hugh Rowley, Hotten, 1867. The designs are all by Rowley himself…. MORE PUNIANA and other works of a similar type.
Visual Culture
Photographs of the brutalist modern urban housing approach in the planned town of Killingworth – in particular the Killingworth Towers.
Visual Culture
A selection of carved figures, canoe prows and ornaments from the Asmat tribe of Irian Java, the Indonesian part of New Guinea. This and the other Indonesian slide sets were taken by American photographer, Karen Melvin, who spent two years, 1974-76, in Indonesia recording various aspects of local culture.
Visual Culture
A selection of decorative music covers from 1906-1910, including such numbers as WHERE THE DREAMY WABASH FLOWS, THAT BIG BLONDE MAMA, SUSANNAH’S SQUEAKING SHOES, etc.
Visual Culture
A selection of architectural studies of small-town buildings (c late C19th – early C20th) photographed in America in 1972. Locations include Beverley (West Virginia), Cripple Creek (Colorado), Annapolis (Maryland), Valdosta (Georgia) and others.
Visual Culture
A selection of bold and unusual illustrations from GAMMON AND SPINACH, Blackie & Sons, circa 1920.