AMERICAN PORTRAITS: MIDWEST MUNDANE

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.

DULL TOOL DIM BULB
Centerpiece of the Jim Linderman blog network.  A blog about surface, wear, form and authenticity in art, antiques, design and photography. Dull tool and dim bulb were the only swear words his father ever used. Items from the Jim Linderman collection of vernacular photography, folk art, ephemera and curiosities.  Weird, wonderful, wicked and smart.
http://dulltooldimbulb.blogspot.com/

VINTAGE SLEAZE

Profiles and examples of the forgotten artists and illustrators of vintage sleaze.  From the virtually unknown African-American master Eugene Bilbrew to the well-known drawings of Eric Stanton, and every cocktail napkin and matchbook illustrator inbetween.  Low Art becomes High Art on Vintage Sleaze.

GALS GAMS GARTERS: The Virgina Stockings Scrapbook Published 2009

An eccentric scrapbook of an anonymous artist who collaged hundreds of stocking clad legs from girly magazines of the 1950's.  Dumpster dived by a student in Virgina 50 years ago, the material has been republished as a book again by Victor Minx and Jim Linderman

SHY SHAMED SECRET SHADOWED HIDDEN: Vintage Vernacular Erotic Photography Hardcover 80 pages over 100 illustrations Jim Linderman with Victor Minx   Published 2009

100 original photographs from the collection of Victor Minx, the pseudonym of a prominent collector of vintage photographs. All the photographs pre-date the digital era. That is, all are unique, original, vintage photos printed on paper at or near the time of their being taken. Some were printed in editions and sold "under the counter" or in the back pages of men's magazines, others were taken as a memento by an amateur photographer for his own use. All fit the criteria indicated by the title of the exhibition.

TAKE ME TO THE WATER: IMMERSION BAPTISM IN VINTAGE MUSIC AND PHOTOGRAPHY 1890-1950   Published 2009  GRAMMY NOMINATED 12/09
Photographs from the Jim Linderman collection with a CD of historic early recordings. Produced by Steven Lance Ledbetter. Essays by Jim Linderman, Luc Sante.  Published 2009 by Dust to Digital.  Reviews, Film, Press Releases, etc.  A published hardcover book with CD 2009.  Site contains film, reviews, press-kit, links.
http://jimlinderman.blogspot.com/

THE PAINTED BACKDROP  Behind the Sitter in American Tintype Photography 2010 The art of the hand-painted backdrop in 19th Century American Tintype Photography, this book will open a new dialog on the relationship between painting, art and photography.   With stunning illustrations from the Jim Linderman collection, the book opens a whole new dialog on the history of both painting and photography in 19th century America.

CAMERA CLUB GIRLS: Bettie Page and the Work of Rudolph Rossi
2010
The extraordinary hand-painted photographs of Rudolph Rossi. Rossi was an informal member of the New York City Concorde Camera Club in the repressive 1950's. For a ten dollar fee, he photographed Bettie Page and a plethora of interracial models, then later meticulously hand-painted the photographs creating the illusion of color photography. An exceptional body of work by a previously unknown and unrecognized photographer and erotic artist from a time when such activity was taboo.
http://cameraclubgirls.blogspot.com/

OLD TIME RELIGION
Vernacular religious detritus from the Jim Linderman collection of photography and ephemera. Jesus is my jet plane and I have the Lord on speed dial. Old Time Religion is a natural line extension from Dull Tool Dim Bulb, where posts of this nature occur every Saturday night while the rest of you are sinning. Wake up, it is Sunday morning!  Praise the Lord and Click to Enlarge!
http://old-time-religion.blogspot.com/