The Museum of Vernacular Photography

Over the last several years many people have started to collect vernacular photography.  As a result there are now many web sites devoted to vernacular photography.  Also,  a number of books on the subject  have been published .  The images which appear on these sites and in these books are unique and are thought by the authors to be wonderful examples of the genre. What these collections do in fact is mirror the taste of each individual who has collected them.  As a viewer, you are being invited to take in each photograph
and to let it speak for itself.

Welcome to the Museum of Vintage Photography. What we will build here is a set of different pages with information and history. Pages can focus on a specific category, artist, technology. 

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WHAT IS VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY?  IS IT ART?  In The Eyes Of The Beholder: A STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS ILLUSTRATED DEFINITION  

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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

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ONLINE  EXHIBITIONS

NEW EXHIBIT 

Paris Fashion: A Day At The Races.  

(Shades Of Jacques Henri Lartigue)

NEW EXHIBIT

A   Selection of a few  Salt Prints from the cellar in our collection

Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley.  A handmade copy of the poem illustrated with original drawings and photographs

NEW EXHIBIT

Perpetually Under Construction,  
But Always Open For Viewing 

SLUG. When a 1,000 Words Just Aren't Enough

Heads Of States  Busts Of Governors By Henry Dexter 1860

In this Presidential election year, 2020. here  is a small bit of obscure political information.  Before Hillary, there was Victoria Woodhull, nee Claflin.   
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for the office of President of the United States in 1872.  Exhibited here is a very rare ivorytype of a young Victoria and her sister Tennessee and the history behind the photograph.

Sarah Filson's Scrapbook
 

Johnstown Flood

Silent Movie Stars And
Their Fancy Motor Cars

Before and After

Samuel F. B. Morse.
Father Of American Photography

Bestiaries

Bestiarum Vocabulum.
Bestiary

Simulacrum Bestiarum. Animal Likenesses

Once Upon A Time

Krause Greater Shows

Ouray, Colorado Cyanotype Album

Beneath The Earth"s Surface   

Shades Of Henry Peach Robinson, 
O.G. Reijlander, 
John Heartfield And Photoshop.
19th Century
Cartes De Visite Montages

They Had Faces Then.
Portraits From The Collection

Cabinet Cards Of Curiosities  

We offer a brief history of Mug Shot Photography.  as well as a small rogues' gallery of images.

This is an amusing look at 
Cameras On Vacation.  as depicted
on various postcards

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CYANOTYPE EXHIBITS

Am I Blue:  The Cyanotype is a short illustrated history of this process

A talented vernacular photographer, The Bridgeport  Cyanotypist, has made a number of interesting images.

A group of images made by
The Worcester Cyanotypist showing members of his family and his city

Ouray, Colorado Sunbonnet Cyanotype Album

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While it is not particularly common, sometimes photographers have taken pictures of their subjects from the back.  About Face

If you wanted a formal photographic portrait made you went to one of the local 
Studio Photographers :

The New York City Studio Photographer

The May's Photo Studio. 
  San Francisco,  California

The European Studio Albumenist

Filson and Son Photographers.
  Steubenville, Ohio

Actors, and sometimes ordinary people,  dress up as someone who they are not.       I'M Not Really

Sometimes photographs
mirror famous images. 
Museum-I'm Not Really...Part II

Many photographs taken by numerous photographers depict similar topics and subject matter.  My Summer Vacation 
shows the commonality of just such images.

Museum-Powered Human Flight

Museum-The Land Of The Free
And The Home Of The Brave

Who Was That Masked ....?

NOT REALLY COVID-19 FACE MASKS

The Look

Amuseur Oculaire.  Small Is The New Big. 

A wee collection of gem tintypes

Suspended Anamotion  
A photograph suspends time,
space, and most especially motion . 

Measure For Measure 

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