Website of the Week 6.08.06

This week's website is the American Museum of Photography. A virtual museum (only existing on the web), it nonetheless has a broad selection of items that would interest most practitioners of photography. There are several online exhibits currently ranging from slavery and other images of early African Americans, Scott Mutter, photomontage, to the Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes. Articles such as :Photographic Fictions: How the camera learned to lie contains various readings on manipulated photography throughout history. There is also information on early photographic processes. A museum store offers books and posters.

If you don't have a museum of photography near you, this would be a good place to visit.