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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. 

Les Folies Bergere

Visual Culture

A selection of superb illustrations from Parisian music hall programme albums, 1925-1931. A wide range of brilliant costumes and stage designs (including several by Erte), stage acts, and individual artists, mostly from Les Folies Bergere and the Casino de Paris. A full coverage of the ‘golden age of Parisian music hall.
Lettering

Visual Culture

A selection of superbly lithographed colour plates from LE JOURNAL DES PEINTURES: Modeles de Lettres. Librairie Centrale d’Architecture, Paris, 1884. Featuring ingeniously decorative ‘perspective’, relief and other letter forms and alphabet patterns.
Liverpool Dock Warehouses

Visual Culture

A selection of slides featuring the architecturally impressive warehouses in the dock area of Liverpool, built c 1830 – 1957, including Bibby’s Mill, Harland & Wolff Works, Tobacco Warehouse and the Waterloo Warehouse. Photographed in 1978.
Lovers

Visual Culture

A selection of romantic postcards, c 1903 – 1913, from England, France and Germany, featuring amorous entanglements, clandestine assignations, thrilling kisses, etc.
Modern Brickwork, c 1910

Visual Culture

Another superb selection of plates featuring many examples of decorative brickwork on buildings in France and Belgium. Taken from LA BRIQUE MODERNE… Les Batiments le plus Recemment Construits En Brique et le Décor En Brique Tage, edited by E. Rivoalen. Thezard, Dourdan, c 1910.
Modern Housing - Peterlee

Visual Culture

Photographs of the East Durham new town, in particular the 1960s/70s housing associated with Victor Pasmore’s vision for the town.
Nadar

Visual Culture

A selection of hand-coloured cartoons from LE PETIT JOURNAL POUR RIRE, c 1845