Luminous-Lint (or Luminous Lint) is a website on photography, run by Alan Griffiths, on vintage and contemporary photography. The site also serves as a collaborative knowledge base on the history of photography and as of 2023 included more than 126,000 photographs and 1,000 histories, biographies of more than 21,000 photographers, and information about techniques, galleries and dealers, photography timelines and other photography-related issues.
has referred to it as a "top-notch" photographic site.
In 2022, Alasdair Forster described Luminous-Lint as a "dynamically networked, multiply indexed database in the form of a website that classifies photographs as multivalent entities capable of forming many different taxonomic relationships." Forster went on to say, "That more organic, responsive way of considering photographs within the wider history of the medium has proved both useful and effective, establishing this as the go-to site for academics, institutions, collectors, and devotees all over the world."
The site reproduces ''Photo Synthesis'', a series of articles on individual works that
Colin Westerbeck
Colin Leslie Westerbeck Jr. is a curator, writer, and teacher of the history of photography.
Before moving to Los Angeles, where he has taught at UCLA and University of Southern California, USC, he was curator of photography at the Art Institute ...
first contributed to the ''
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
.''
Photo Synthesis
' series at Luminous-Lint
Westerbeck's introduction
to the series.
References
External links
Luminous-Lint website
American photography websites
Online databases
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