What seven late-19th-century European artists, including Vuillard and Bonnard, did with their new Kodak hand-held cameras. 
The popularizer of photography is on its corporate deathbed, but the culture it created is stronger than ever... 
Chevrolet’s latest spot shows photos of old Chevies being held up against modern-day backgrounds. It’s lovely and leverages the brand’s history, but some are alleging the concept is stolen from the popular blog Dear Photograph. Via DearPhotograph 
"Vernacular photography, a growing, collector-driven field, finds mystery and masterpieces in the lenswork of unknown amateurs." 
How is it that the very first photographic images, daguerreotypes made on silver coated copper plates, still contain more information and detail than our modern day digital images? 
"The enthusiastic users of the earliest amateur cameras included many artists. What role did photography play in their lives and how did it influence their work? The exhibition Snapshot. Painters and Photography, 1888-1915 sheds a light on this creative process, presenting 220 photographs and 70 paintings, prints and drawings from seven artists." "All Hands Volunteers, a Massachusetts-based, nonprofit, has...hand-cleaned more than 55,000 photos. In some cases, professionals from around the globe have even restored images digitally." 
Welcome to House of Mirth Vintage Photos... 
Finger in Your Eye: Accidental Snapshots by Barbara Levine
Capturing the authentic and the incidental, snapshots provide an intimate look into artists' lives--who they knew, who they loved, where they worked, where they went, and, perhaps most important, the little moments that made their lives rich and...
Sean O'Hagan: An evocative survey of photo albums captures the history of American photography – and asks whether we'll ever impose order on our sprawling digital collections...
Extraordinary Vernacular Photographs from the Collection of John and Teenuh Foster...
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Eastman Kodak, the 131-year-old film pioneer that has been struggling for years to adapt to an increasingly digital world, ran short of cash before a turnaround effort could succeed. 
Eastman Kodak is preparing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in coming weeks should efforts to sell a trove of digital patents fail. 
"A diver named Markus Thompson, he was told, had just found a crusty camera at the bottom the ocean, retrieved the photos from its SD card, and posted them to Google+ with a plea to the..." The most memorable photos may not be the ones you expect... 
"Beyond their capacity to preserve and evoke memories, snapshots of celebrations, vacations, and gatherings of family and friends are accumulated with the aim of constructing a personal history and preserving it for future generations. When these photographs are discarded or displaced—becoming anonymous—they are transformed into cultural artifacts that collectively trace a history of private image making and evolving habits of self-presentation before the camera. The snapshots presented here are such artifacts, presumably taken by nonprofessionals and saved for a time. Disowned and scattered, they were plucked from flea markets, shops, and galleries by New York collector Peter J. Cohen. Noticing the frequency of photographs featuring trios of women, he named the group after the Three Graces, an iconic motif in Western art." 
Two young women in Cincinnati are testing the fringes of Fabulous Fifties nostalgia by selling reproductions of 1955 police mug shots. 
A virtual collection of vernacular vintage photographs and other vintage illustrations and images.
Garage-sale snapshots that are masterpieces.
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