The ARTstor Digital Library now contains two collections from The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. The first is 1,269 images from the museum’s permanent collection and the second offers 4,896 contextual images documenting the history of the circus in America. In other news, ARTstor announced a future collaboration with UC Santa Barbara alum…
ARTstor just launched some search and filter features that really help you drill down to the images you want. You can start a search with a broad term (e.g. “Cordoba”), then click on the + sign beside “Narrow your results” (upper left). This opens up a filter panel on with options to narrow the search…
Two wonderful sources for public domain film footage are available online Universal Newsreels: created between 1929 and 1967, these newsreels cover the major topics of the day. They were put into the public domain by University City Studios. (There are also many more recent pieces of news footage in this college.) Prelinger Archives: a…
ARTstor’s latest additions to their Digital Library include: Judy Chicago: 367 works by the artist, author, feminist, and educator (keyword: judychicago) George Eastman House: the completion of 19,161 images illustrating the history of photography (keyword: eastmanhouse) And these institutions have agreed to contribute: Museum of the City of New York: over 55,000 images from prints,…
More than 20,000 works of art were plundered in Germany-occupied France and Belgium from 1940 to 1944. These works, meticulously documented during the war by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), can searched and researched via a new online database. The database combines records from the U.S. National Archives in College Park (MD), the German Bundesarchiv…
If students are having a hard time distinguishing their autochrome from their photogram, here are three fantastic on-line resources that offer definitions and examples of photographic processes: Historic Photographs, from the British Library, is an on-line gallery tour of photography “in its formative years.” Exploring Photography, from the Victoria & Albert Museum, has a series…