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 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 beautiful designs for light shades and bowls (usually with quintessential 1930s style) from the 1939 catalogue of T.B. Morley & Co. Ltd, Hull.
Visual Culture
A selection of tins decorated in traditional styles (flowers, ‘The Laughing Cavalier’, etc). From the catalogue of Hudson Scott & Sons, Carlisle, 1932.
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
A selection of illustrations from THE SLEEPING BEAUTY & OTHER FAIRY TALES retold by A.T. Quiller-Couch, Hodder & Stoughton, c 1912
Visual Culture
A further selection of Bawden’s illustrations from TRAVELLER’S VERSE, chosen by M.G. Lloyd, Thomas Muller, 1946; and from THE VOYAGES OF LEMUEL GULLIVER by Dean Swift, Folio Society, 1958.
Visual Culture
A selection of illustrations combining painting and photography (mostly featuring pretty girls, actresses, etc), taken from supplements to ‘The Sketch’, 1903-1912. Some very unusual examples of an unusual genre.
Visual Culture
A city centre shopping mall in Newcastle upon Tyne, associated with T Dan Smith / Wilfrid Burns’ plan for modernising the city centre. Photographed c 1980.
Visual Culture
A selection of beautiful designs for electric light fittings – shades and bowls, usually with quintessential 1930s style – from the 1939 catalogue of T.B. Morley & Co. Ltd, Hull.
Visual Culture
A selection of ‘sensational’ English ‘Sex’ novelettes, c 1945-50. Ultra-glamorous illustrated covers from such titles as MAN-BAIT, EASY CURVES, ANGELS BRUISE EASY, HOT DAMES ON COLD SLABS, etc.