Black, White and Blue all Over 26 Apr 2013 | 05:59 pm

Beyond the Tweets, texts and messaging saturating our present-day social media culture-recently extending even to software giving a smartphone user the ability to view a photograph just once before...

Sharp as Needles & Woolly as Mary's Lamb 7 Apr 2013 | 06:16 pm

The 1905 Kodak Competition | Exhibition & Kodak Advertising Contests The cryptic title of this post owes a debt to advertising. Seeing an opportunity to redefine their annual photographic contest...

Unskilled & Unacquainted with Photography 16 Feb 2013 | 09:43 am

Perhaps as a final swan song to its illustrious editor, the final issue of the American Amateur Photographer  in which Alfred Stieglitz was associated-December 1895-featured an actual gelatin-silve...

Heaven's Road, Traveled 7 Jan 2013 | 08:57 pm

If we are extremely lucky, there will be people we meet in life personifying the ideal of who we might aspire to.  That was certainly true for me and Ruth Kaplan. Ruth, who passed away in a Florida...

New Year Greetings from PhotoSeed 1 Jan 2013 | 11:01 am

Christmas Spirit 25 Dec 2012 | 09:00 am

Detail: 1895: "LA VIERGE A L’ENFANT", (The Virgin and Child) Baron Adolph de Meyer: hand-pulled photogravure from: Bulletin du Photo-Club de Paris: December, 1896: 17.1 x 12.1 cm | 27.2 x 19.7 cm: ...

Suddenly 17 Dec 2012 | 02:23 am

Non-sensical is how a childhood friend of mine described Friday’s shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut which claimed the lives of 26 souls: 20 first-grade studen...

Famous Kodak Girl? 11 Dec 2012 | 07:46 am

Recognize the face? A teen model aiming her Kodak in a sheep field? If yes, please do tell. With her mystery my acknowledgment, I can say without hesitation it’s a snap getting sucked into the worl...

The Beauty of Color 6 Dec 2012 | 11:00 pm

It is always a pleasure to run across vintage advertising featuring photographs from this archive. Marian Pearce, an amateur from Waukegan, IL, was the grand prize winner in 1908 for this original ...

Now hold Still 29 Nov 2012 | 06:49 am

Ok, I admit it. I found the little bugger opposite the page containing the engraving of this fashionably-dressed gentleman focusing and peering into his elegant camera. When I recently opened a par...