The Visualizing Cultures website was launched at MIT in 2002 “to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning”. It includes essays with visual narratives which incorporate postcards, archival photography, prints, and more. The content currently focuses on the early modern history of Japan and China. Click on “Explore Content…
The Magnum Photos library of more than 180,000 press prints, recently purchased by Michael S. Dell (of Dell Inc.), has moved from New York City to its new home at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin. The sale of the archive will help fund to scan the archive digitally and the move to the Ransom…
The Big Picture, part of the Boston Globe online, is a massive archive of browsable and downloadable news photos. The up-to-the-minute images are organized by month and by categories such as Middle East, Religion, Daily Life, Disasters, etc. Each topic includes several photos, and in some cases (such as the post-Hurricane Ike group under “Disasters”)…
ARTstor has announced the following are available in the Digital Library: Brooklyn Museum Costumes (The Metropolitan Museum of Art): 5,883 high resolution images of highlights from the Brooklyn Museum now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute (keywords: brooklyn costume) The Samuel H. Kress Collection and National Gallery of Art: 1,757 images from…
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Department of Geography and The Jewish National and University Library offer a fantastic website dedicated to “maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities”. The site is searchable by area, mapmaker or year, and each image can be viewed in high…
ARTstor has announced that 833 images (69% of the roughly 1,200 projected total) from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum are now available in the Digital Library [keyword search: okeeffemuseum]. Additionally, agreements have been reached with the following institutions and should be available by April (all image counts are approximate): Diego Rivera at the Detroit Institute of…