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Research Links
General Links

    - The American Museum of Photography
    This site specializes in online exhibitions of daguerreotypes and early photographic works. See also a selection of "Masterworks of Photography," and a "Research Center" that provides links to photo history resources on the web.

    - American Photography: A Century of Images
    The companion site to the PBS series of the same name offers a wonderful photographic resource, inviting us to view a century of images through cultural, social, and historical lenses. The site includes sections on art, photography and war, digital truth, presidential image making, persuasion, social change, and cultural identity.

    - Blind Spot: Photography
    The online site for Blind Spot, a photography magazine "committed to publishing visually enticing, unconventional, new and never-before-published work," shows numerous examples of artists who see the ordinary in extraordinary ways. The full text of the current and back issues includes interviews with and photographs by featured artists, as well as a choice selection of contemporary fiction. A gallery of "Artists A–Z" includes photographs by, among others, Chuck Close, William Eggleston, Richard Misrach, and Wolfgang Tillmans.


Selection Links

Roe Ethridge, Refrigerator (photograph)


Billy Collins, Horizon (poem)

Larry Woiwode, Ode to an Orange (essay)
    - Smithsonian Magazine
    The online version of the January 1997 issue of Smithsonian magazine includes an abstract of another ode to an ordinary object, the toothpick. The site also contains an image gallery featuring the work of contemporary photographers and other issues of the magazine, many of which contain articles that focus on a single object.

Sequoia Citrus Association, Have One (lithograph)
    - Pat Jacobsen's Fruit Labels Site
    This site offers an online gallery of fruit crate labels from the same era as the book's reproductions, as well as an array of other product labels from the same period.

    - The Ultimate Citrus Page
    This web site created by the Florida Citrus Growers bills itself as "your portal to the world of citrus"; it offers a wonderful counterpoint to the memoir by Larry Woiwode and the assorted older citrus ads in the chapter.

Richard Estes, Central Savings (painting)
    - Artcyclopedia
    Artcyclopedia's page on Richard Estes contains numerous links to his work on the Internet.

Anne Fadiman, Mail (essay)

William Eggleston, Untitled (photograph)
    - Masters of Photography: William Eggleston
    This site includes reproductions of some of William Eggleston's photographs, along with the full text of articles about the artist and links to online resources that focus on his life and work.

Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing (fiction)

PORTFOLIO: Tim Gardner (4 watercolors)
    - Columbia University News
    The site contains information about the university, as well as articles on upcoming artists from their MFA program. In a 2000 interview, Tim Gardner describes his background and gives his thoughts on the art world.

    - OFFOFFOFF.com
    A review of Gardner's work. Includes six images.

Pepón Osorio, Badge of Honor (installation)
    - Art in Context
    Discusses Pepón Osorio's Badge of Honor installation and its focus on community and parent-child relationships.

    - Feldman Gallery
    This page of the Feldman Gallery features some of Osorio's work.

    - Giarts.org
    Transcript of Pepón Osorio's 2001 keynote address to the Grantmakers in the Arts conference.

Alfred Leslie, Television Moon (painting)
    - New York Art World
    This site provides information on Alfred Leslie and his work and displays some of his paintings in an online gallery.

Annie Dillard, Seeing (essay)
    - The Mysticism of Annie Dillard
    In an article posted in May 1994, Sandra Stahlman Elliott discusses Annie Dillard's mysticism, her life, and her Pulitzer Prize–winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974).

LOOKING CLOSER: Seeing Is Believing
    - Seeing the Unseen: Dr. Harold E. Edgerton and the Wonders of Strobe Alley
    A description of the George Eastman House's exhibition of Harold Edgerton's work, as well as several of Edgerton's images.

    - Anglo-Australian Observatory
    A web site run by the Anglo-Australian Observatory that contains about thirty pictures of stars, galaxies, and nebulas. Pictures on the site are billed as "some of the finest wide-field astronomy pictures made with professional telescopes anywhere." You might consider these in relation to K.C. Cole's "A Matter of Scale."

    - Science Photo Library
    David Scharf's close-up of a kitchen scouring pad is one of the 124,000 images in the Science Photo Library, a collection promoted as "the world's leading stock photo agency specializing in science, medicine, and technology." In addition to its extensive archive of photography, the site includes special features such as "Images in Action," which shows science photos in popular culture, and an "Image of the Week" archive.

    - Artcyclopedia: Chuck Close
    The Artcyclopedia online archive of links to works by and articles about Chuck Close offers students access to more works in Close's unique style (includes a link to an excellent Time article by Robert Hughes).

    - Untitled: X-Ray and Unusual Image Library
    This British collection of X-ray images, photograms, abstract photographs, and contemporary pictures is presented in an engaging and accessible web site.

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH LINKS
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