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 magnificent theatre posters, music hall programmes, invitation cards, etc, taken from LES PROGRAMMES ILLUSTRES DES THEATRES ET DES CAFES-CONCERTS, Nilsson, Paris, c 1890.
Visual Culture
Beautiful lithographic illustrations from FAIENCERIES DE SARREGUEMINES DIGOIN ET VITRY, Paris, 1905
Visual Culture
A selection of studies showing the domestic architecture of Georgian York, c 1700-1835. Photographed c 1980.
Visual Culture
A selection of illustrations from a typical high quality children’s annual, including first-rate work by Patten Wilson, W. Heath Robinson, Mary Tourtel, et. Scores of children’s annuals were published in the early years of this century (and indeed still are). Many are long forgotten (and rightly so), but some were excellent anthologies of children’s literature and illustrations. This and Blackie’s Children’s Annual, 1905 are some of the best examples.
Visual Culture
A selection of early decorative cards, including embossed and ‘fretwork’ types. Very attractive.
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 illustrations from THE FOX’S FROLIC, or A DAY WITH THE TOPSY TURVY. No publisher, c 1912, 24 colour slides. The English illustrator Harry B Neilson was born in 1861 and died in 1941.
Visual Culture
A selection of heating stoves (slow combustion, hot air, etc) taken from the catalogue of Dobbie, Forbes & Co., Larbert, Scotland, c 1910.
Visual Culture
A selection of heating stoves (slow combustion, hot air, etc), laundry stoves, plumber’s stove, tinsmith’s stove. Taken from the catalogue of Dobbie, Forbes & Co., Larbert, Scotland, c 1910.