Photography Criticism CyberArchive
To visit the world's deepest online archive of past and present writing about photography, visit the Photography Criticism CyberArchive. Founded and directed by the Café's Executive Director, A. D. Coleman, this repository contains complete texts of critical and historical essays, profiles, interviews, and much more, from William Henry Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature on through the writings of contemporary figures. It's subscription-based; a demo version will give you a sampling of what the PCCA offers.

rejectioncollection.com
Feeling rejected because no one wants your work? Misery loves company, yes? Then head for rejectioncollection.com, where you'll find a terrific assortment of real rejection letters that artists, photographers, creative writers and others have received from galleries, magazines, artists' colonies, and other sources. Read 'em and weep -- or laugh. You're also welcome to post your own favorites from your personal collection of nay-saying. As this site's Catherine Wald (who bills herself as "President and Chief Rejecutive Officer") proposes, "It may not make you feel any better, but it's better than banging your head against the wall."

Photo-Eye Bookstore Online
Photo-Eye is one of the oldest and best suppliers of in-print and out-of-print photography books from around the world. Their cyberversion claims itself as "the most comprehensive selection of photography books available anywhere, online or off," and we haven't heard anyone dispute it. Quite a few of these titles you'll find nowhere else in the States. During your visit to Photo-Eye Bookstore Online, be sure to pay a visit to their Photo-Eye Gallery Online as well.

ACE Index: Online Photo and Digital Imaging Magazines
ACE Index: Online Photo and Digital Imaging Magazines covers online version of photo-related print periodicals and pure webzines (and also newsletters) from all over the world -- not just North America (including Canada) but Asia, Australia, Europe & the U.K., Latin & South America . . . you name it, they'll list it. If you publish such a web project, let them know. If not, and you're searching for more online photo-specific reading, start here.

Center for Creative Photography
Unique in that it specializes in archiving not just master prints but the entire life's work of selected photographers, the Center for Creative Photography -- located at the University of Arizona in Tucson -- has much to offer both specialists and the general public. Their evolving site already provides a full index to their journal, The Archive, and a comprehensive catalogue of their enormous collection, plus material on current and recent exhibitions, teaching guides, and more. A must for teachers, students, and scholars, but enjoyable for anyone interested in the medium.

Equivalence
European Photography, one of the longest-lived and most substantial journals from across the Great Water, offers a site (in English) full of information and debate on the European art-photography scene and related issues. Here's a link to its home page, Equivalence.

The Photo Review
It's empty-nest syndrome for us here at The Nearby periodically, whenever our offspring leave home. But we love to serve as a springboard for cyberspace newbies, so we're hopelessly proud of those who get their start with us and then move on. One such is The Photo Review, the long-lived quarterly -- regionally based, national in scope, institutionally unaffiliated. We posted their first home page here, and wish them well now that they're on their own.

The Critical Eye
The world's first online critical journal devoted to photography was/is The Critical Eye. Note to critics, established and emerging: editor Greg Rubin has issued an ongoing call for work, addressing a variety of themes. See the site for details.

Prague House of Photography
The Nearby Café has a serious special interest in the eastern European photography scene. We created and hosted (1995-2001) the first web page for the Czech Republic's Prague House of Photography, which now has its own autonomous site. Once you've browsed through that, perhaps you'll want to visit (virtually) its younger Slovak counterpart: Dom Fotografie/House of Photography, founded on March 16, 1996 and based in the city of Poprad. The two projects have much in common.

Link
The granddaddy of documentary magazines, LIFE, is now online. Its glory days are long gone, of course, clearly never to return; and they're but a ghost of their once unprecedented self. Still, they've got a slew of new photo-essays online, from such as Harry Benson and Ken Jarecke, plus the covers of every issue from the beginning to the end, so give it the once-over for auld lang syne.

LensWork Quarterly
From the northwest coast -- Portland, Oregon, to be precise -- comes LensWork Quarterly, a fine journal of thoughtful, unpedantic writing "on photography and the creative process."