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Vintage Photographs of Arcane Americana

Boing Boing - Jan 24, 2012
The photos were from the collection of Jim Linderman, who has a terrific eye for weird art, antiques, ephemera, and of course vernacular photography. Jim has just published a new book -- Vintage Photographs of Arcane American -- and judging from the ...

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African American Vernacular Photography

by: Brian Wallis
These selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection make up an extraordinary group of images of African Americans in a variety of genres and poses, including formal studio portraits, casual snapshots, images of children, images of uniformed soldiers, wedding portraits and so-called "Southern-views" made for tourist consumption, all dating from 1860 to 1960. While some of the sitters are celebrities of their day, the majority are unnamed Americans posing for their portrait. They attest to photography's ability to both record personal history for private uses and to become a document--to document history in a wider context.
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The Face in the Lens: Anonymous Photographs

by: Robert Flynn Johnson
Anonymous photography has a magic all its own. The intriguing images assembled here by collector and curator Robert Flynn Johnson are all mysterious, but their appeal is various. By turns poignant, humorous, erotic, and disturbing, their subject is the human condition. In ten stunning chapters every aspect of human experience--both public and private--is explored. Richly reproduced and with subtle tonalities marking their age, over 220 photographs showcase the work of photographers whose identities have been lost in time.
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Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany

by: Frances Guerin

We have seen the films of professionals and propagandists celebrate Adolf Hitler, his SS henchmen, and the Nazi Party. But what of the documentary films and photographs of amateurs, soldiers, and others involved in the war effort who were simply going about their lives amid death and destruction? And what of the films and photographs that want us to believe there was no death and destruction? This book asks how such images have shaped our memories and our memorialization of World War II and the Holocaust.
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In the Vernacular: Photography of the Everyday

by: Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw, Ross Barrett
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 recently most types of everyday photography have remained unexamined by historians and have been absent from the walls of galleries and museums. In response to this omission, some scholars have begun to consider photography as a "vernacular" practice.This reframing of the history of photography serves as the starting point for "In the Vernacular: Photography of the Everyday".
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Wynwood Vernacular Photography TV spot

Tv spot for the Wynwood Vernacular Photography at the University of Miami's Wynwood Project space. Nov. 8th thru Nov 22nd 2008.

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This Is Wynwood

A short documentary on how the "This Is Wynwood" vernacular photography exhibit at the University of Miami Wynwood Project Space came to be. A film by: Jonathan Franklin, Jay Hirschfeld, and Matt Wallach Camera: Jonathan Franklin and Jay Hirschfeld Editing and Motion Graphics: Matt Wallach Music: Jay Hirschfeld

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Swann Galleries Auction Preview- Fine Photographs Part 1

Director of Photographs, Daile Kaplan Discusses Highlights of Swann Galleries' February 7 Auction of Fine Photographs. A private American collection of fine art and vernacular photography forms the centerpiece of the auction. Additional highlights include photography from Irving Penn, Sally Mann, Robert Frank, Larry Clark, Man Ray, and many others. For more information on this and other auctions please visit www.swanngalleries.com

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