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Ephemera


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Differing Opinions

  • "Ephemera is anything short-lived, but also refers to printed matter of passing interest." The Ephemera Society


  • "1: Something of no lasting significance 2: collectibles not intended to have lasting value 3: cool stuff used for collage, assemblage and altered books" Lisa Vollrath


  • "Ephemera is a term used to embrace a wide range of minor, everyday documents most intended for one-time or short-term use...items that represent certain events, places, eras, or memories, which can be used on a collage page." Cynthia Coulon


    • Events & Notes

    Rick Prelinger, media archaeologist, will be screening footage from the Prelinger Archive at the Vinegar Hill Theater on Tuesday 02.24 at 7 pm.

    On Wednesday 02.25 at noon, Prelinger will give a talk in Clemons 407 on preserving ephemeral films.



    Main Readings

    Sontag, Susan. "In Plato's Cave." On Photography. New York: Anchor, 1977.
       
  • [In the Materials Section of Elizabeth Birdsall's ARTH491-2 Photography As In Art 1960 to Now, Spring 2004]



    • Selected Texts

    Barthes, Roland. "The Photographic Image." Image-Music-Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977.
       
  • [In the Materials Section of Aniko Bodroghkozy's MDST 301 Theory and Criticism of Media, Fall 2002]
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    Links

  • The Ephemera Society of America

  • "Rick Prelinger and Prelinger Archives' almost-all-text website"

  • The Prelinger Archive
    - Archive.org's Prelinger collection with many great ephemeral films to download.
    - Bobby recommends Make Mine Freedom (which is unfortunately down right now). If you're really interested in checking it out you can find it The Open Video Project

  • The WayBack Machine
    - Peruse old archives of websites. How about Yahoo! on Oct 17th, 1996.

  • The Fast-Food-Toy Roommate Dare

  • Curioscape

  • e-Bay

  • National Library of Medicine Ephemera Exhibit (from 1995)

  • Antiques Roadshow
    - Yet another definition of ephemera - it even stretches to include luggage stickers...

  • Ninteenth-century ephemera (Mark Forder)

  • The Library of Congress brings you An American Time Capsule

  • The Museum of Ephemeral Cultural Artifacts

  • If you need ephemera now, why not try EphemeraNow.com

  • Can you resist Tack-O-Rama?

  • These advertisements ran in Harper's in the years spanning 1857-1872.

  • Duke's Emergence of Advertising in America covers the years 1850-1920, and its Ad*Access Project covers the years 1911-1955.

  • Adflip is all about advertising from 1940-2004.

  • I'd like to teach the world about Coca-Cola's Television Advertisements, in perfect harmony. Clips, outtakes, experimental footage.

  • Check out this selection of the Library of Congress's collection of baseball cards, spanning 1887-1914.



  • Anyone have any Garbage Pail Kids or Monster Cards kicking around in the attic?


  • Quasi-Comprehensive Candy Bar Wrapper Image Archive
    - With Semi-Useful Nutritional Information. Yummy.

  • Labels and Packages! Packages and Labels!

  • Matchbook Museum
    - Has dozens of matchbooks for your viewing pleasure.

  • Have you seen the postcards of Duluth? Most of the diners in Minnesota probably serve Sweet-N-Low.

  • Sick of Ephemera? Check out Rune's Barf Bag Collection or the more tactful air sickness bags.com




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