NORTHERN LIGHT GALLERY


Danish Museums and Archives
Some of these institutions do not yet have sites of their own and for the time I will act as their server and webmaster. These are indicated by "*"
*Danmarks Fotomuseum
Herning
primarily a camera museum but they cover images as well in a broad collection
*Museum Erotica
Copenhagen
featuring the history of Erotica and Erotic Art
*Dansk Fotohistorisk Selskab
Copenhagen
Association of Camera and Image collectors. (In Danish)
Det Kongelig Bibliotek
Copenhagen
See next entry
Det nationale Fotomuseum
Copenhagen
one of the world's great photographic collections. In the process of being collated and moved to this new institution.
Museum for Fotokunst
Brandt's Klædefabrik, Odense
Scandinavian images both historical and modern.
Fotografisk Center
Copenhagen
gallery and bookstore with primarily modern images
Københavns Bymuseum
Copenhagen
the best source for images of Copenhagen
Det Kongelig Kunstakademie
Fotografisamling

Copenhagen
the School of Architecture has a large holding of Danish and International images
Nationalmuseum, Billedsamling
Brede
Exremely large collection of Danish images.
Musikhistorisk Museum
Copenhagen
many music related images, both Danish and International.
Dansk Folkemindesamling
Copenhagen
images of Danish culture and traditions.

Lists of links
Some lists of links are excessive and others quite productive. If anyone is interested I'll put links to some database searches here, too.
Yahoo! - Photography Resources a rich and varied source of both modern and antique related sites...probably where you found me
Clicio's Links Clicio is a Brazilian photographer who has assembled an impressive list of photography resources.
Photography Gateway images, suppliers, exhibitions and so on.
Photography a list of photographic resources in the Wallace Library, at the Rochester Institute of Technology
Fine Art Forum Photography Exhibits varied photgraphic exhibitions both historical and modern
Alta Vista Search for "Daguerre". Interesting result though many in Italian
Web Crawler Search for History and Photography within 6 words of each other. Gives good results.
Cool Photography Sites various sites and pages.
WWW Resources - Photography images, suppliers, exhibitions and so on.


Various Sites
Oxford University Antique images.
New York Public Library Exhibitions
Paris French collections
National Museum of American Art Secrets of the Dark Chamber
Library of Congress Print and Photographs reading room.
Oregon State University Archives images.
The Latent Image A new site for artistic photography by Clicio Barroso and Betty Schlueter
A.D.Coleman @ byocafe Critique, events, reviews and various writings.
Gl. Fotografier Vintage Photographs Danish photographer who also buys, sells and trades images and books



Reading List

 History

 Bossert, Helmut Theodor and Guttman, Heinrich.  Aus der Fruhzeit der Photographie, 1840-1870. Frankfurt am Main: Societats-Verlag, 1930.  Braive, Michel F The Photograph: A Social History New York: McGraw Hill, 1966.  Christ, Yvan. L'Age d'or de la Photographie. Paris: Vincent Fréal, 1965.  Coe, Brian. The Birth of Photography. The Story of the Formative Years, 1800-1900. New York: Taplinger, 1977.  Coke, Van Deren ed. One Hundred Years of Photographic History: Essays in Honor of Beaumont Newhall. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975.  Coke, Van Deren ed. The Painter and the Photograph. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1964 .         Rev. ed.subtitled From Delacroix to Warhol , 1972.  Colnaghi P. & D. & Co. Photography: The First Eighty Years. London, 1976.  Daniels, Patrick. Early Photography. New York: St. Martin, 1978.  Doty, Robert ed. Photography in America. Intro. by Minor White. New York: Random House, 1974.  Doty, Robert ed. Photo-Secession: Photography as a Fine Art. Rochester, NY: George Eastman House, 1960.  Gernsheim, Helmut. Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends 1839-1960. London: Faber & Faber, 1962.  Gernsheim, Helmut & Alison.  A Concise History of Photography. New York: Grosset &. Dunlap, 1965.  Gernsheim, Helmut. Masterpieces of Victorian Photography. London: Phaidon, 1951.  Gernsheim, Helmut & Alison. The History of Photography: 1685-1914. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.  Hambourg, Maria Morris & Apraxine, Pierre et.al. The Waking Dream. Photography's First Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.  Jeffrey, Ian. Photography A Concise History. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981.  Palme, Sven Ulrik & Meyerson, Åke. Kameraet fortæller Historie. 1850-1918. Copenhagen: Harry N. Abrams, 1958.  Pollack, Peter. The Picture History of Photography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977.

 Techniques

 Burger, Janet. French Daguerreotypes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Crawford, William. Keepers of light. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Morgan and Morgan, 1979. Darrah, William C. Cartes de Visite: In Nineteenth Century Photography. Gettysburg: Darrah, 1981. Darrah, William C. The World of Stereographs. Gettysburg: Darrah, 1977. Reilly, James M. Care and Identification of, 19th-Century Photographic Prints. Rochester, New York: Eastman Kodak Co., 1986. Wood, John. The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography. Iowa: City, 1993.

 Lists &Directories

 Andrews, Ralph W. Picture Gallery Pioneers, 1850 to 1875. New York: Bonanza, 1964.  Arts Council of Great Britain  The Real Thing: An Anthology of British Photographs l840-1850. London  1975.  Beaton, Cecil. British Photographers. London: Collins, 1944.  Bonge, Susanne. Eldre Norske Fotografer-Fotografer og Amatørfotografer i Norge frem til, 1920. Bergen: Universitetsbiblioteket, 1980.  Coke, Van Deren. Avant Garde Photography in Germany, 1919-1939. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.  Edwards, Gary. International Guide to Nineteenth-Century Photographers and Their Works: Based on Catalogues of Auction Houses and Dealers. Boston: G.K.Hall & Co, 1988.  Jammes, André & Janis, Eugenia Parry. The Art of the French Calotype, with a Dictionary of Photographers 1848-1870. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983.  Ochsner, Bjørn. Fotografer i og fra Danmark til og med år, 1920. København Bibliotekscentralens Forlag, 1986.  Palmquist, Peter, ed. & Rudisill, Richard et. al. Photographers: A Sourcebook for Historical Research. Brownsville, CA: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1991.  Söderberg, Rolf & Rittsel, Pär. Den Svenska Fotografins Historia 1840-1940. Stockholm?: Bonnier Fakta, 1983. 

 Critique

 Beaton, Cecil. and Buckland, Gail.  The Magic Image: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.  Buckland, Gail. Reality Recorded: Early Documentary Photography. Greenwhich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1974.  Fabian, Rainer & Adam, Hans-Christian. Masters of Early Travel Photography. New York: Vendome Press, 1983.  Freund, Gisele. Photographie et societe. Paris: Seuil, 1974.  Lansdell, Avril. Fashion a la Carte: 1860-1900. Aylesbury: Shire Publications Ltd, 1985.  Nazarieff, Serge. Der Akte in der Photographie 1850-1930. Berlin: TACO, 1987.  Pare, Richard. Photography and Architecture:1839-1939. Montréal: Callaway Editions, 1982.  Gernsheim, Helmut. Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends 1839-1960. New York: Bonanza Books, 1962.  Lyons, Nathan ed. Photographers on Photography. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1966.  Sontag, Susan. On Photography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.  Szarkowski, John. Looking at Photographs. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1974.  Williams, Val. The Other Observers: Women Photographers in Britain, 1900 to Present. London: Virago Press, 1991. 

On Collecting

 Blodgett, Richard. Photographs: A Collector's Guide: A Complete Handbook For Buying Fine Photographs. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. Dennis, Landt & Lisl. Collecting Photographs: A Guide to the new Boom Market. New York: Dutton, 1977.  Gilbert, Geroge. Collecting Photographica: The Images and Equipment of the First Hundred Years of Photography. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1976.  Haller, Margaret. Collecting Old Photographs . New York: Arco, 1978.  James, H.A. The Price Guide to Photographic Cards. London: Bishopsgate Press, 1982.  Mace, O. Henry. Collector's Guide to Early Photographs. Radnor: Wallace-Homestead, 1990.  MaceMcCulloch, Lou W. Card Photographs: A Guide to their History and Value. Exton: Schiffer, 1981.  Weinstein, Robert & Booth, Larry. Collection, Use and Care of Historical Photographs. Nashville: Am. Assoc for State & Local Archives, 1977.  Welling, William. Collector's Guide To Nineteenth-Century Photographs . New York: Collier Books, 1976.  Witkin, Lee D & London, Barbara. The Photograph Collector's Guide. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. 



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