The Unknown Photographer – (b. 1900 – d. 1999) from the Department of Photographic Records at the Ontological Museum
With dedication and intensity, Thomas Walther, a visionary collector of photography, has been sorting through the seemingly superfluous vernacular photography of this century. Other Pictures is his selection of over Continue Reading
Since the inception of photography in the early nineteenth century, photographs have been made, used, collected, and discarded in greatly increasing numbers. Despite the photograph’s persistence in daily life, until Continue Reading
Are you fascinated by vintage snapshots? Do you look at old photographs and wonder about the stories they tell? Then Tattered and Lost: Vernacular Photographs should be of interest to you. The Continue Reading
BUY NOW: Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard The advent of the Kodak camera in 1888 made photography accessible to amateurs as well as to professionals. Artists were not Continue Reading
BUY Snapshots of Dangerous Women For the awesomely daring women in our lives comes the perfect gift: a jewel of a book that collects vintage candid snapshots of women enjoying Continue Reading
Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images (The MIT Press) An examination of the contradictions within a form of expression that is both public and private, specific and abstract, conventional and Continue Reading