- SepiaTown is a new site geo-mapping historical photos of New York, Moscow, London, and other cities—you can upload your own too. And I just noticed that they’re using some Smithsonian photos as part of the project. [via C-MONSTER.net]
- Lots of cool new Flickr Commons tools! This one, by Paul Hagon, allows you to browse by color. And faculty in Australia at the University of Canberra built built a neat application that allows you to browse the Flickr Commons by tags. [via Effie Kapsalis, SPI]
- Very strange—GOOD looks into a new art project that explores criminals in the kitchen via their mugshots. Apparently, the kitchen is a dangerous place to be . . . [via SwissMiss]
- We’ve all heard about 19th-century suspicions about early cameras “stealing one’s soul.” Now there is a whole museum devoted to the topic: “The Museum of the Stealing of Souls is devoted to histories of the invention, appropriation and reconfiguration of the subject by photography.”
- The Houston Center for Photography currently has a fascinating show of eclectic vernacular snapshots of groups of people from W.M. Hunt’s personal collection. Jörg Colberg has an extended interview with Hunt that is definitely worth reading here.
- Check out Duke University Library’s extensive collection of print ads and early TV commercials, many newly digitized. [via Effie Kapsalis, SPI]
- In honor of the recent passing of civil rights photographer Charles Moore, check out this documentary [via Eyeteeth]
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