JANE WAGGONER DESCHNER has long used found photographic imagery in her work, first making photomontages with magazine clippings, and more recently utilizing orphaned snapshots and other discarded vernacular photographs from the mid-Twentieth Century. Deschner was raised in Kansas and moved to Montana over thirty years ago. She earned her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2002. Recently, she has exhibited in Montana, Oregon, New York, Washington and Montana. Her work is in the collections of the Federal Reserve Banks in Minneapolis and Helena; University of Montana; Montana State University–Billings Foundation; Yellowstone Public Radio; Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming; Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena; and individuals internationally. "Fiberarts" magazine is including a feature article about her embroidered photographs titled "Deduction, Speculation and Fantasy" in their September/October 2010 issue. New work is on her website www.janedeschner.com Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
RANDALL de RIJK is a photographer and a collector of all things photographical. In his own words: "Ever since I can remember, about 6-7 years old I guess, I've had cameras. My first one was acquired through Bazooka Bubble Gum Comics. I had to collect so many to get the camera (plastic.) I can't remember the film, maybe 126, but I still have photos I took with it. So far I have managed to stay clear from digital, although I do have a phone with 7200 shots and videos on it. I prefer to use chrome film and have for two decade now; there's something about that color transparency that's held between thumb and index finger that feels right to me. Cameras: Minox, Holgas, Nikons, Leicas and Plaubel Makina 670. My favorite is my Nikon F3 HP - it's been all over the world. When I'm out people ask "Is that a film camera? Can you still buy film?" ("It's not an 8 Track for God's sake" I say.)" Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
J. MOSS EVERGREEN was conceived in the Summer of Love, sired by an aviator, and born out of a cornhusk doll-maker into the American Heartland. He was raised on Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw, but mostly Iowa Hawkeye football (about which the only thing he understands is that when it is happening, his father is either screaming obscenities red-faced or dancing around the living room hooting and cackling). After completing high school, he studied art at really high school. Then something or other happened for a while. He currently resides with his family in Tokyo. He loves everyone and everything, in photographs. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
ORLA FITZPATRICK is a librarian and photo-historian from Dublin, Ireland. She has worked at the National Photographic Archive, Dublin and is currently the Librarian for the National Museum of Ireland. She recently completed her MA thesis on an Irish collage and mixed media photographic album dating from the mid-19th century. Her blog www.jacolette.com deals with Irish vernacular and ‘found’ photography. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
JOHN FOSTER is an avid collector of self-taught art and vernacular photography. In 2005, Art & Antiques magazine named John one of the "Top 100 Collectors" in the United States. John currently serves on the Board of Trustees for SPACES, an organization dedicated to saving and preserving arts and cultural environments; and is an Advisory Board Member of the Folk Art Society of America. John and his wife Teenuh live in St. Louis, Missouri and have two grown children, Hannah and Luke. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
CLARE GOLDSMITH has been collecting photos since 1997, and her collection has been shown at Panopticon Gallery in Massachusetts. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
RICHIE HART has been collecting all sorts of different photos for many years. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
ROBERT E. JACKSON has collected snapshots for over eleven years. Other areas of interest are cabinet cards, arcade photographs, and photo-collages from the 1870s through the early decades of the 20th century. In the fall of 2007, his snapshot collection was the subject of a show and catalogue entitled “The Art of the American Snapshot:1888-1978” which was on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. for nearly three months. From February 19 thru April 27, 2008, the show travelled to the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
JIMMY LEIDERMANN is a 37 year old Photo Historian, who is very passionate about collecting and researching 19th century baseball photography. You can follow him on Twitter @jimmyleiderman. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
BARBARA LEVINE is a collector, artist and dealer specializing in vernacular photography and unusual collections. She is the author of Finding Frida Kahlo, Around The World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums and Snapshot Chronicles: Inventing the American Photo Album (all Princeton Architectural Press). Her website is www.projectb.com Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
NIGEL MAISTER is a theatre director, writer, performer and designer with an deeply unhealthy and financially ruinous passion for photography. He collects an eclectic and diverse range of 19th century photography and 20th century snapshots, as well as a small but growing selection of contemporary work. More about him and his collection can be found at www.foundphotographs.com Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
JOHN NICHOLS John Nichols opened the John Nichols Gallery 25 years ago in downtown Santa Paula. The gallery specializes in vintage, vernacular and contemporary photography. John is one of the founders of the Ag Art Alliance, a member of the Ag Futures Alliance and the Fine Arts Committee of the Museum of Ventura County. He is a cookie judge at the Ventura County Fair and a stage manager at the Monterey Jazz Festival. His book on the St. Francis Dam Disaster was published in 2002. In addition to gallery exhibits he has also designed and curated numerous exhibits for museums around Ventura County. Visit johnnicholsgallery.com. Phone: 805-525-7804 Business Email: john@sespe.com JohnNicholsGallery.com (Mail: POB 268) Santa Paula, CA 93061 Facebook: http://profile.to/johnnichols/ Blog: http://sespe.wordpress.com/ Snapshots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrnichols/ Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
SABINE OCKER Sabine has been collecting interesting old stuff since birth, and vintage photography since 1994. Since then, she has amassed a beautiful but unorganized collection of snapshot albums, orotones, cyanotypes, and autochromes. She has spoken about photo history topics at the George Eastman House Photo History Symposium in 2003 and 2011. Her cyanotype collection is featured in a new book on vintage photography collecting called "The Collector's Vision," which will be published by Schiffer Publishing in Fall 2012. She happily lives in an old house by the sea, surrounded by photographs. Contact her at sabine.ocker@gmail.com or www.snapshotmaven.com Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
Karen Oldfield has collected vintage photography for a couple of decades now, and currently spends much of her free time creating a digital archive of her collection, hoping someday to "catch up" with it - which we all know may never happen, at least not so long as she has a little money to burn on eBay and at photo shows. She does occasionally try to take pictures of her own, but mostly of the digital type, and wonders how the proliferation of digital images will change the vintage photo-collecting experience for future generations of collectors and dealers. She can be found on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/krnodil.
BILLY PARROTT is an artist, a collector, and a librarian, though almost never in that order. When not making art or collecting he is the Managing Librarian of the Art and Picture Collections of the Mid-Manhattan Branch of The New York Public Library. Some of his photo collection can be seen at http://phoundfotographs.com/. His artwork can be seen at http://www.billyparrott.com/. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
BROOKS PETERS For more than 25 years, Brooks Peters has been a writer and editor based in New York. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines, ranging from Architectural Digest and Art and Antiques to Opera News and Out Magazine. Prior to opening his antiquarian bookstore, Brooks Books, in the Hudson Valley, he was Editor in Chief of Quest Magazine, covering New York’s high-powered social and cultural scene. Before that he was a Senior Writer of Architecture and Design at Metropolitan Home; travel columnist for Mirabella; Contributing Editor of Travel and Leisure; and Contributing Reporter at Vanity Fair where he collaborated with Diana Vreeland on a monthly column. He has also written about music and the arts for The Village Voice, Interview, Stagebill, Playbill, Newsday, Los Angeles and Aspen magazines. His literary blog -- An Open Book at www.brookspeters.com -- attracts a large readership from across the globe. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
IAN PHILLIPS grew up in northern Canada. He has participated in a multitude of winter sports, including: skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, ice-fishing, tobogganing, figure skating, ice-hockey, and harpoon-toss. His favourite holiday is the Winterlude and he hopes one day to meet the Bonhomme. You can see some of his swimming photos here: swimminginpictures.wordpress.com. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
DAVID RHEINGOLD has an active passion for photography, both in creating art as well as collecting vernacular photography. His art and vernacular photography is on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gotham22/sets/ ). He is the founder and co-producer of Salon Ciel (www.saloncielny.org), an organization promoting emerging artists, especially photographers. He is also a board member for the Organization of Independent Artists (http://www.oia-ny.org ). He is a managing partner of the Rheingold law firm in New York City (www.rheingoldlaw.com). His focus in collecting vernacular photography is on photographs which are graphic, lyrical or enigmatic, especially if they might be mistaken for a well known photographer's oeuvre. He spends time scanning, photoshopping and enlarging photographs, rescuing lost people and events from dusty obscurity. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
JOEL ROTENBERG Joel Rotenberg has been collecting snapshots for nearly thirty years. He lives in New York. Click here to go to The Art of the Snapshot by Joel Rotenberg Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
MARK ROTENBERG - While Mark collects lots of things, he's been building the largest archive of vintage erotic photography in the US, now with about 110,000 pre-1960 images. He provides content for publishers, museums and filmmakers worldwide. Numerous books based on the archive have been published over the past 20 years. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
PAT STREET has collected photographs and postcards for 20 years, and is now concentrating on antique images of children with their pets. She is a writer, editor, and artist -- and a longtime delighted customer of House of Mirth. Several of her collage pieces can be seen at www.patstreet.com Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
PHIL STOREY has been collecting tintypes for 16 years. He has written for photohistory publications and presented at photohistorical seminars. At his day job, he works as a Sales Engineer for a software company. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
MARK SULLO Mark Sullo has divided his loyalties between photography, art and music since a teenager. He began informally collecting vintage photographs in the early 80's, when you might find a baggie full for a quarter at Goodwill. In 1990 he co-founded Wall of Sound record store in Seattle, a destination source for unusual independent recordings of many varieties. He owned and managed the store until 2002. It is still open for business…. Over the years he has exhibited his photography and collage and worked freelance. He, relatively recently, returned to his interest in vintage, anonymous photography, as well as the history of photography. Having become aware of a wide network of collecting, he has increased this activity through buying and selling. All of the above is shared at the following links: blog: http://lovelywaterparade.blogspot.com/ web page: http://marksullo.com/ eBay: http://bit.ly/d16O26 Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
GUY CAPECELATRO III is a Landscaper, writer and musician who lives in Portsmouth, NH with his wife and cat and likes to stare at old photographs and make up little stories. http://burstandbloomrecords.com/books/some-women/ Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
JOHN TOOHEY has been collecting for nearly 20 years and living in Istanbul for the last six years. He posts photos from his collection weekly at One Man's Treasure, and contributes regularly to Luminous Lint. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
JOHN VAN NOATE has a collection of photographs, and occasionally he has something to say about one or another of them. He is perhaps more widely known as mrwaterslide, and you can find him on flickr here http://www.flickr.com/photos/82329524@N00 Once-upon-a-time, he hitchhiked across Canada to get to Woodstock. He has never voted for a Republican Presidential candidate. He is fitting out his Ark.
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ERIN WATERS started collecting photos when she was eight thanks to her dad's interest in daguerreotypes and his belief that a weekend spent antiquing all over New England is just what kids need. Over the years, she honed her eye and now has a large collection of all sorts of vernacular photographs. Some categories include: hand tinted photos, pre-Revolution Russian photos, Pocket Kodaks, photos showing a great painted backdrop, interiors, and whatever else catches her eye. While she has degrees specializing in Russian studies and museum studies and went on a Fulbright to Russia, she nevertheless followed her passion (obsession?) and decided to be a full-time photography dealer. She sets up at shows throughout the year and sells on her family's website (with her father and brother) and on eBay. Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
JANET WEST is a middle aged (if you plan on living to be over a hundred) kook who lives in White Plains, New York. She collects lots of things, including photography. She can be found almost every weekend, selling her wares in NYC at the antiques garage. Finding and selling things are her passion and she also loves to see what other people collect! Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com
BOB YOUNG is a longtime collector of vintage photographs, particularly images of men. He is the Public Services Librarian for the Arnold Bernhard Library at Quinnipiac University, in Hamden, CT. He may be contacted at boobob92@gmail.com Click here to go to back to houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com