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Bettie Page Perfect from Behind Original Photograph collection Victor Minx circa 1955 from the Book (and ebooks $5.99) Camera Club Girls: Bettie Page, her Friends and the Work of Rudolph Rossi.
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American Folk Art in Place
Early Photography of Backyard Visionaries In Situ: American Folk Art in Place by Jim Linderman and Dull Tool Dim Bulb Books
by bestshill 23/02/2010
In Situ: American Folk Art in Place by Jim Linderman shows his long time collection of vernacular art makers from the early part of the last century to more recent years. Many of the photographs, never seen, show early artisans and eccentrics at work on unusual yard environments, buildings, sculpture, carvings and religious shrines. A large section of the photographs show circus sideshow banners and religious signs, all “in situ” and in place. Little text but wonderful images, and a small but nice contribution to our understanding of backyard artists from the past. Linderman maintains the noted Dull Tool Dim Bulb art and photography site as well as Vintage Sleaze , a fun and sexy look at the early illustrators, artists, photographers and merchants of American Erotica from the 1960s. A portion of his photography collection was used to illustrate the Grammy nominated Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography from 2009, this book continues the display of Arcane Americana and extraordinary photographs he has assembled over the last 20 years. In Situ: American Folk Art in Place is the third publication from Dull Tool Dim Bulb books , which specializes in unusual art and photography books. Previous volumes covered early amateur erotic photography “Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden” in which dozens of vintage vernacular photographs of women hiding their facial features from the camera were shown, and “Gals Gams and Garters” which documented a most curious scrapbook found in Virginia in the 1960s. Linderman has numerous projects in the works, many of them are linked at his directory HERE .
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Untitled (Tintype Studio) Anonymous Tintype circa 1870 Collection Jim Linderman
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American Portraits Midwest Mundane by Jim Linderman
Not celebration, but documentation of a people, place and time which existed briefly in captured snaps of Central Michigan during and immediately after the Second World War. In Middle America on the cusp of the 1950s, a family fights isolation with few choices, missing sons distant neighbors and a seemingly bleak, unfortunate reality. Black and white portraits by an anonymous photographer, these are the images he left behind.
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Camera Club Girls Bettie Page and her Friends The Work of Rudolph Rossi
by Jim Linderman Available from Blurb.com Dull Tool Dim Bulb
For over 50 years, the extraordinary Hand-Painted Original Photographs of Bettie Page and nude models of the 1950s taken by Rudolph Rossi lay hidden. Now, for the first time, over 100 have been published in Camera Club Girls by Jim Linderman. 114 pages, 35 pages of text and 180 pictures, the book tells the story of the informal groups of early camera enthusiasts in New York City who paid ten dollars each to photograph naked women, including Bettie Page, in dingy studios and outdoor excursions. As much the history of early erotic photography and Times Square smut as it is the story of the exceptional personal vision of an artist, master photographer and painter which has not been told until now. The photographic find of the decade, and an amazing story which combines passion, painting, photography and early porno in a tale never told.
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Untitled (Baptism in Ice with Cameraman) circa 1920
from Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography
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The Painted Backdrop by Jim Linderman is The first Art book to discuss the relationship between the painter and the photographer in 19th Century America. More Information and photographs HERE
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The Painted Backdrop: Behind the Sitter in American Tintype Photography
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The Painted Backdrop Behind the Sitter in American Tintype Photography
by Jim Linderman AVAILABLE NOW
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Baby at the “Beach” Tintype Photograph circa 1880
collection Jim Linderman
from forthcoming book The Painted Backdrop
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