- Cigarettes and gardenias . . . The Smithsonian Institution Libraries blog checks out old trade literature on women, commerce, and society.
- Beautiful digital flipbooks at Mediastorm. I thought that the Iraqi Kurdistan series was especially striking for its nuanced look at everyday life in Iraq, sans US troops and suicide bombers. [via Effie Kapsalis, SPI]
- And speaking of reportage, check out A Developing Story, a very interesting website examining photojournalism and other media produced in the developing world.
- Just received an email about the exhibition at AAnonymes.org, which aims to help you "find the accident deliberately," by showcasing 365-days-worth of vernacular photography. There are some weird delights on there.
- Haha! The Subconscious Shelf over at The New Yorker psychoanalyzes you via pictures of your bookcases.
- Colin Pantall pointed me in the direction of a very strange body of work by artist Koen Hauser, De Luister van het Land ("The Glory of the Land"), which is a new body of work made from materials from the Spaarnestad Photo Archive, one of the largest press archives in Europe. Some of the portraits mimic photos of curators and preperators from the Smithsonian, and all of the work gives a strong, if unclear, sense of the overwhelming variety of stuff contained in visual archives everywhere.
- I've been enjoying the DC Public Library sets on the Flickr Commons, including some cool Then vs. Now shots and some beautiful color images of the Smithsonian.
- Thanks to Jeanne of Spellbound Blog for her cool animated .gif, comparing our Flickr Commons Women in Science set with our male-dominated Portraits of Scientists and Inventors set.
- How did I not know about this before? UbuWeb is an online archive devoted to "avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts." I'll definitely be spending a lot of time here, especially in their film section. In honor of Spring rainshowers, I bring you this little-known ditty by Ralph Steiner, a photographer from my alma mater, whose work I happened across while in college:
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