Online Exhibitions

www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/devices/choice.html     Devices of Wonder: From the World In A Box To Images On A Screen, organized by the at the J. Paul Getty Museum, points out relationships among artifacts, scientific books, and works of art and demonstrates the fluid boundaries between art history and fields such as optics, philosophy, natural history, and magic.The innovative website  explores our long and playful entanglement with the artful instruments and magical technologies we have placed between our eyes and the world. 

www.pem.org/cornell/# Joseph Cornell: Navigating The Imagination, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum is a visual treat for Cornell enthuisasts and anyone who marvels at the transofrmation of ordinary and discarded materials into extraordinary works of art.

www.mjt.org/    The Museum of Jurassic Technology-- words cannot describe this one of a kind museum located in Los Angeles.  Check it out.

www.circusmuseum.nl/eng    Welcome to Circus Museum in the Netherlands, the ultimate image bank with posters, photos and prints from the collection of Jaap Best, the Netherlands’ largest collection of circus memorabilia. For your enjoyment, this online show, now has nearly eight thousand circus posters from 1880 to the present, from the Netherlands to America,

www.accidentalmysteries.com  Accidental Mysteries, an on-line exhibition featuring the snapshot collection of John and Teenuh Foster; itinerary of the traveling exhibition and catalog; plus essays on vernacular photography.

www.squareamerica.com/index.htm  Square America is Nicholas Osborn's superb gallery of vernacular photography including wonderful snapshot exhibitions

Five Star Sites & Great Stuff

http://www.photomuse.org/exhibitions.html   Photomuse is an online resource for scholarship in the history of photography and a collaboration between George Eastman House and the International Center of Photography. The site has a diverse sampling of  interesting exhibitions and a chronology of photography with cross-referenced timelines of politics and culture.

www.luminous-lint.com  Luminous-Lint (there is an explanation on the site about the name) is chock full online resource for photography collectors and connoisseurs offering authoritative reference materials, online exhibitions, expert commentaries and reviews, press releases, calendars of auctions, exhibitions and shows, a specialist online bookstore and much more.

www.antiquetoysandgames.com  antique toys and games is the online store of Pierre Patou and Elisabeth Callery.  They have a fascinating and constantly changing inventory of the best in 19th Century games and optical toys as well as all sorts of related items from magic sets to paper automaton. 

www.metropostcard.com/metropchistory.html is the Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York's site and it is an incredible resource for anyone interested in postcard collecting and the evolution of postcards in the United States.

www.homobilia.com is Barry Harrison's boutique site for one-of-a-kind, rare, and unusual gay art and memorabilia.

http://www.martinparr.com/index1.html is contemporary color photographer Martin Parr's site. The design and  abundance of his awesome photos makes this artist's site thorougly delicious.

Blogs

http://www.ephemera.typepad.com/   ephemera is Marty Weil's wide-ranging, in-depth blog on ephemera, including lots of great interviews with collectors and interesting books and articles on topics ranging from home made pet posters to vintage playing cards to Bob Dylan ticket stubs."The Collector's Weekly", a Web resource for antique collectors, selected the ephemera blog for inclusion in their of Fame.

http://bernardyenelouis.blogspot.com  One Way Street is Bernard Yenelouis' blog about modern, contemporary and vernacular photography. His articles are thoughtfully considered, researched (he has worked at the ICP for many years) and very well written. If you are interested in vintage or snapshot photographs be sure to read his entry dated October 20, 2007.

www.ampersandvintage.blogspot.com  Ampersand Vintage is a seller of vernacular photography & ephemera in Seattle.  Their blog is a mix of recent finds, scans from their paper inventory, short forays into photo history, and whatever else happens to catch their eye. Their website amerpersandvintage.com features snapshots available for purchase.

http://scrapatorium.typepad.com/scrapatorium  Scrapatorium is Angelica Paez's blog and a must if you are a collage enthusiast or artist.

http://scrapiteria.blogspot.com Scrapiteria is made up of collagists who work in the traditional cut and paste method. Each week, one of the members posts a new theme which is intrepreted in a personal way.  Some of the best contemporary collage work can be seen on this blog.

Artists & Graphic Designers

Melody Owen, www.thistlepress.net

Yokoo Tadanori, w00.middlebury.edu/ID085A/postwar/gallery3.html

Martin Venezky, www.appetiteengineers.com

Joachim Schmidt, http://schmid.wordpress.com/page/2/

Martin Parr, http://www.martinparr.com/index1.html