News… from The American Museum of Photography
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What’s New?
June 2000–The Museum marks its fourth anniversary online with a new exhibition: “Did You Ever Have A Dream Like This?“ It’s the first in a series of galleries we’ll be presenting on manipulated photography and “Special Effects.” And we’re also pleased to welcome Faithful Hound, maker of collection inventory software for image collectors, as the sponsor of our popular “Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes” show.
May 2000– Have a web page? Please link to us! You’re welcome to use our logo in connection with the link. No web page? How about suggesting a link to a public library or school that has one?
January 10-15, 2000– YIKES! A server crash at the Museum’s web host swallows a couple of hundred web sites–including ours. When backups fail, your dedicated Museum staff works nearly round-the-clock to restore the site, exhibit-by-exhibit (whew!) A special reminder from the Assistant Junior Webmaster: please email us ([email protected] ) with the exact page address when you find a bug on the site. Thanks!
January 2000– The American Museum of Photography starts the new millennium with the “Best of the Best” Award from Access, the largest-circulation Internet magazine. And check out the great review in WebThisWeek, which awarded the Museum site four stars January 10.
December 1999–Our new exhibit, “Photography as a Fine ARF!” opens, featuring some of the greatest dog photographs ever made, plus a wonderful group of photocollages that turn people into dogs.
August 1999–The American Museum of Photography celebrates the 160th Anniversary of Photography’s birth with a festive home page ( including an engraving of inventor Louis Daguerre doing “The Macarena.”) We’re also presenting the grand opening of a new exhibition. “The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes” features stunning portraits made by the first American Masters of Photography.
July 1999– Join Us! We’re proud to invite you to participate in our NEW Free Membership Program. Members will receive valuable discounts, a free screen saver featuring favorite images, invitations to private on-line previews of new exhibits, and more! Click on the link on our home page ( or just click here ) to join.
June 1999– Photo Sights: The American Museum of Photography is pleased to be featured as a “Top Photo Sight” on Photo Sights Ezine. Thanks for the kind words!
3/29/99 The American Museum of Photography is proud to announce its selection as a “World Best Website” Gold Award winner. This award, presented by an Australian organization, is designed to foster creativity and quality on the Internet. Thanks!
2/18/99 “Masterworks of Photography“ exhibition opens, featuring three galleries of classic images… from the Invention of Photography through the Vision of Ansel Adams.
2/12–2/18/99 The American Museum of Photography is featured on c|net’s TV.COM , broadcast nationally.
1/4/99 The American Museum of Photography is selected as a Yahoo! Pick of the Year! Thanks, Yahoo!
Sponsorship Opportunities
The American Museum of Photography is growing… adding new exhibitions, new features, and reaching an expanding audience. Our sponsors help make it all possible, and we extend our thanks to Faithful Hound Software and Light Impressions.
For less than the cost of a tiny print ad, your company can sponsor an entire exhibition at The American Museum of Photography. You’ll reach thousands of visitors every week–and benefit from the Goodwill our site is building among photography lovers, 24 hours a day.
Click here to drop us an eMail for more information. Please include your name and phone number.
What’s Next?
New galleries in preparation include “Do You Believe?” & “Science vs. Seance,” featuring an extraordinary group of Spirit Photographs… images that convinced many people of the existence of ghosts. As always, participants in our Free Membership Program will be invited to preview the new exhibit.
What would you like to see? Let us hear your ideas and suggestions— click here for eMail.
The American Museum of Photography has been honored with these awards:
Best of 1999 from ACCESS Magazine
World Best Website Gold Award
Yahoo! Pick of the Year, 1999
The Mining Co. “Best of the Net”
Yahoo! Pick of the Week (Oct. 12, 1998)
(Best Rating) from Infoseek
Voted one of the Top 10 Photography Sites at www.toptenlinks.com
(Top Rating) from ACCESS Internet Magazine (“Large, quick-loading images, great resources and clean design could almost make you forget that you’re visiting this museum online…”)
“Wonderful showing! This is a prime example of how the web can bring out interesting artifacts, seen by very few people, to the public at large.”
“I downloaded all of your photographs so I can look at them whenever I think I have made a particularly good shot. Would any of us have done so well with the equipment and materials available back then? Thank you many times over. Your selection of pictures and descriptions of them are wonderful!
“What a delightful museum…engrossing…an honorable example of the preservation of history.”
“WOW! I feel like I’m there, on the 57th Street, moving down the street, when I look at that photo [in “An Eye for the World”]– it is my favorite because it really draws me into the moment as a participant. Really good passages in books do this for me – I create the scene in my mind vividly. But only rarely does a photo have this strong an effect on me.
The entire collection is wonderful, thanks! ““That was absolutely wonderful ! Cheered me up for the day !”
“thank you for putting together a fresh exhibition of historic architectural photographs[“Of Bricks & Light”]. as a professional architectural photographer specializing in historic resources, i have developed a sincere appreciation for the work of early documentarians… i stand in awe of some of these incredibly powerful messages from the past. i appreciate your efforts to curate this selection of fine photographs.”
“Very beautiful and informative site, a reminder of my travels, my own work, and what is yet to come. That is one of the great features of the internet, to be exposed to information and images you had no idea existed! Thanks, and I’ll be back.”
“A beautiful exhibit. As a photographer for the past 65 years (as a hobby!), I am happy to be pointed to this web site. Keep up the good pix! “
“After working day after day in the world of sterile modern stock and corporate photos it is such a delight to visit a site so filled with the joy of photography! More!”
Our thanks to everyone who visited… and to everyone who left a comment!
