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Posted on Tuesday April 29, 2025
Updated on Tuesday April 29, 2025
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Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured line engraving.
Sign languages are completely developed natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon.This means that they are not universal and are not understood everywhere though they carry some similarities.
Wherever there are communities of deaf people, sign languages have developed. They are also used by those who can hear but are unable to physically speak, those who have trouble with spoken language due to a condition or disability and those with deaf family members.
Each country has it's own native sign language and some countries have more than one, but it is still unclear how many currently exsist around the world.
Discover this small but unique high resolution dataset from the Wellcome Collection on the alphabet in sign language. These sign language engravings are in French, English and German.
From around 1907 to 1913, film makers were seeking to make distinctive images that went beyond everyday life representations. Their curiosity brought on the concept of “cinema of attraction”, a term coined by the film researcher Tom Gunning. These films draw viewers to focus on the animation and thrill of the images as if watching theatre play or being at a circus instead on the narrative.
This dataset from Filmoteca de Catalunya explores this concept with the works of Segundo de Chomón (1871 – 1929). He was a pioneering Spanish film director, cinematographer and screenwriter. Due to his repeated camera tricks and visual fallacies he has been compared to the French illusionist and film director Georges Méliès and was regarded as the most significant Spanish silent film director at the time.
Gösta Florman (1831 - 1900) worked as a photographer with his own studio in addition to his military career. In 1871 he left the military and acted as a portrait photographer in Stockholm.
Floman's portraits were characterized by the continental, fashionable style of brown-tinted photographs, purposefully deployed props and elegantly dressed models.
