The George Eastman House photography collection is among the best and most comprehensive in the world. With holdings that include objects ranging in date from the announcement of the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present day, the collection represents the full history of photography. Works by renowned masters of the medium exist side-by-side with vernacular and scientific photographs. The collection also includes all applications of the medium, from artistic pursuit to commercial enterprise and from amateur pastime to documentary

                    At The Robert Mann Gallery, see some handmade photographs in “The Embroidered Image” May 29 through August 15, 2014. |This is from the Gallery’s press release: The photograph today is increasingly distanced from the handmade. With the proliferation of digitalization, seamless Photoshop retouching, and quick laser printing, pictures now more than ever are a product of the mind and the machine. In tandem, the photograph has become eminently reproducible. Yellowing

Just in time for spring and summer weather comes an exhibit at The Museum of the City of New York, Aaron Rose, In a World of Their Own: Coney Island. Click through to the museum site- this is a great museum, if you have never been here, you need to visit!