articles and excerpts
Found Photos as Artifacts by Barbara Levine
Barbara Levine on Vintage Vernacular Photo Albums & Found Snapshots
Art & Antiques Feature on Collecting Vintage Photographs
Magic Moving Pictures: Vintage Novelty Stereogram Postcards From The Collection of Barbara Levine
Psychoanalysis: The Comic Book
This article first appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of Snapshot, the project b Newsletter by Barbara Levine.
Found Vintage Photo Focus: In Motion Pictures
This article was originally in the Fall 2011 issue of Snapshot, the project b Newsletter by Barbara Levine.
Real Photo Postcard Spotlight: Koo Koo The Bird Girl
Kodacolor: Early Color Snapshots
This article was originally in the Summer 2011 issue of Snapshot, the project b Newsletter by Barbara Levine.
Camera Comics!
This article was originally in the Summer 2011 issue of Snapshot, the project b Newsletter by Barbara Levine
In Living Color: Early Hand Painted Photographs
This article was originally in the Fall 2010 issue of Snapshot, the project b Newsletter by Barbara Levine
Interview with Barbara Levine on Felt & Wire
Camera Shoot: Camera Shoot: Snapshots of People Taking (and blocking) Photographs
This article was originally in the Spring 2011 issue of Snapshot, the project b Newsletter by Barbara Levine
2011 review for Snapshot Chronicles
Columbia Poultry Farm Photo Album
Barbara Levine and Vernacular Photography
Around The World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums
Snapshot Chronicles: Inventing The American Photo Album
Collecting Vernacular Photography: 'Mistake' Snapshots
Barbara Levine on vintage photos considered mistakes and why they are intriguing and collectible
Found Vintage Photo Focus: TV Screen Snapshots
Finding Frida Kahlo by Barbara Levine and Stephen Jaycox
Finding Frida Kahlo: Editorial Reviews
Selected Editorial Reviews of new book by Barbara Levine and Stephen Jaycox
Barbara Levine Collection of Vernacular Photograph Albums Acquired by ICP
Cigar Holder Camera
This article was originally in the Late Winter 2009 issue of Snapshot, the project b Newsletter by Barbara Levine
Found Photo Focus: Polaroid Photos
This article was originally in the Late Winter 2009 issue of SnapShot, the project b Newsletter by Barbara Levine
Real Photo Postcard Spotlight: Tattooed Lady, Artoria Gibbons
A real photo postcard, c.1920 of the circus performer, Artoria Gibbons, who was tattoeed by her husband.
Collecting Vintage Real Photo Postcards
Vernacular Photography Library- A Reading List
2 great lists of compelling books on or related to vernacular photography.
Small Stories: Defaced & Captioned Snapshots
This article was originally in the Summer/Fall 2008 of Snapshot, the project b Newsletter by Barbara Levine.
Found Photo Focus: Remember Me / Memory Snapshots
Focus on Early Color Snapshots
Why are some vintage snapshots considered art?
rosencrans baldwin interviews Barbara Levine for The Morning News
When your cousin can upload 400 pictures from her Tahitian vacation but not find time to whittle them down, do you care too much about her journey?
around the world reviewed in Afterimage and Barnes & Noble Spotlight
Published book reviews of Around The World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums
New York Sun Article on Found Photo Books includes Around The World
Article interviewing International Center of Photography librarian and best books on vernacular photography.
Barbara Levine interview for Scrapatorium
"Imagine a house with many rooms: in one room there are the collections of stuff including antique toys and games, vintage photographs, ephemera and lots of things accumulated over the years at flea markets..."
Real Photo Postcards
A history of real photo postcards from the Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City.
Kodak and The Rise of Amateur Photography
An excellent summary of the birth of snapshot photography from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Invention of The Roll Film Camera
A brief summary of the invention of the box camera and links for more information.
Marty Weil Interviews Barbara Levine for Ephemera Blog
In a recent post, I mentioned Barbara Levine's new book, Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums. In the following interview, Barbara tells us more about the book, which contains photographs exclusively from her personal collection.
Around The World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums by Barbara Levine
Excerpt from essay, Confessions of an Armchair Traveler about the dawn of world travel when Brownie cameras in tow, the middle class toured the globe for the first time and documented their discoveries in scrapbooks, diary entries and photo albums.
Snapshot Chronicles: Inventing the American Photo Album by Barbara Levine
Excerpt from essay Collecting Vintage Photo Albums-Musings on, about collecting vintage photograph albums, the creativity in old photo albums, blogs and selling snapshots on ebay.