The Color of a Flea’s Eye: The Picture Collection

A tremendous feat of bookmaking, Taryn Simon's The Color of a Flea's Eye deploys prints, postcards and other ephemera to explore the organization of visual information through the New York Public Library's beloved archive Taryn Simon's The Color of a Flea's Eye presents a history of the New York Public Library's Picture Collection--a legendary trove of more than one million prints, photographs, postcards, posters and images from disused books and periodicals.

Since its inception in 1915, the Picture Collection has been a vital resource for writers, historians, artists, filmmakers, fashion designers and advertising age