I came across this extraordinary collection of vintage Italian Photochrom prints (ink-based photolithographs, c. 1890-1900) on the Library of Congress Flickr page. They are also available as high-resolution TIFF files on the collection homepage; I’ve already downloaded a few and I’m ready to start printing. Here are a few of my favorites after just a brief dip into the collection of thousands of images:

Mount Solaro, Capri Island, Italy

Bellagio, general view, Lake Como, Italy

Cityscape view looking toward cathedral, Florence, Italy

General view, Arco, Lake Garda, Italy

Menaggio, general view, Lake Como, Italy

Blue grotto, Capri Island, Italy

Valley of Sarca, Arco, Lake Garda, Italy

I’m very happy to report that I have a series of photographs in the newest edition of Fraction Magazine, which was released online today. This is all new work, which I haven’t shown anywhere before. The issue also includes work from Jessica Todd Harper, Emily Shur, Tom Leninger, and William Greiner.

These photographs are all from inland parks on Long Island, some of which I’ve only recently discovered. I see a lot of potential for future work there.

I’ve been working on these images for more than three months now, and it feels great to finally send them out into the world. Three months doesn’t sound like very much, but when I think back to December and remember the work of researching, shooting, processing, and editing these images, I realize that my process and my perspective on my own work has changed quite a bit in that time. I am a perpetual beginner, where every step still feels significant. I would like to thank David Bram for encouraging me to push myself to create this new work.

Over the last couple of days I’ve been collecting links to some of my favorite longer-form articles, essays, blog posts, and interviews about photography on a new blog called Photo Reads. I can’t promise to update it every day, but I do spend quite a bit of time online looking for stuff like this anyway, so I thought I would share the results with everyone else.

If Twitter is more your thing, there’s a Twitter account too. Same stuff, different format.

The most recently posted article about Joel Sternfeld is a pretty interesting read. I love coming across stuff like this.

I love these desert images from photographer Allie Mount. I discovered Allie on Flickr a couple of weeks ago and was instantly smitten.

These vintage 16mm Kodachrome movies of a family vacation to California are beautiful and completely charming. I recommend clicking through and watching them in full-screen HD, if your computer can support it.

San Francisco, 1958

Home Movies at DisneyLand, Parts 1 and 2

Uploaded by Jeff Altman.

Looks Like Portugal is undoubtedly the central piece in the collection, in which the viewer sees a brightly painted door left slightly ajar, revealing a vestibule adorned with colorful and “ethnic-looking” ceramic tiles. The piece leaves the viewer to ponder: “Where was this taken? Looks like Portugal.”

Today’s humor, via McSweeny’s

Thoughtful essay and wonderful pictures on Art Fag City.

(via @cmonstah on Twitter)

I first discovered Rachel Hulin when she was the blogger behind Photoshelter’s Shoot! The Blog. She set up her own site, the charmingly titled A Photography Blog, about a year ago, and it has been a favorite ever since. Rachel keeps up with an incredible number of photographers, and posts new and exciting work to her site just about every day. Her recent 31 for 31 post is an excellent example.

Rachel and I have been working on a redesign of the site for the last couple of weeks, and it launched yesterday. You should definitely check it out.

Flak Photo is giving away five signed copies of Doug DuBois’ new photo book, All the Days and Nights. Details are on the FlakPhoto Facebook page. All you have to do to enter to win is post your favorite image from the Flak Photo archives on their Facebook Page. Going through the Flak archives is always a good time anyway, so get yourself over there.

Hey, I’ve got one or two images in the Flak Photo archives myself! What do you know about that?

A few of my recent favorites:

• Susan Worsham
  
• Kurt Tong
• Emily Shur
  
• Michael Lundgren

This week at Too Much Chocolate, I interview Brooklyn photographer Tim Briner about his Boonville series. It is beautiful and very thoughtful work, and I was happy to get some insight into Tim’s experiences while working on the project. I think you will enjoy reading it as well.

From the series Boonville, by Timothy Briner

Tim recently finished a small edition of hand-bound books for Boonville, and they look amazing. Each book consists of 37 black and white prints—printed, bound, and signed by the author. I am really looking forward to getting my copy.

Tim shared a few photographs from the making of the book, which you can see below.

Tim will also be exhibiting his work at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in January. A bit too early to mark your calendar, perhaps, but keep it on your radar.

Boonville was created with support from Cannery Works, a New York-based non-profit arts organization.