A project nine years in the making, The Color of a Flea’s Eye foregrounds the Picture Collection at The New York Public Library which, since its founding in 1915, has allowed patrons to sift through its storied contents in search of visual references of every conceivable kind.
Organized by Taryn Simon and Joshua Chuang, the Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Associate Director for Art, Prints and Photographs, and the Robert B. Menschel Senior Curator of Photography at the Library. The Color of a Flea’s Eye: The Picture Collection is accompanied by a monograph of the same title that is available for consultation in the Wallach Division, or for purchase in the Library Shop.
