ARTstor has just announced an important milestone: five years of service and over 1,000,000 images! Among those images are these new releases: Ezra Stoller Archive (via Esto Photographics): Photography of Modern architecture (the latest release brings the count to 7800 of 26,000 total images) ART on FILE Collection: Contemporary architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and…
The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, housed in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University, is now online and accessible to the public. This rare collection includes roughly 7,610 photographs, 230 glass lantern slides, and various additional materials from 1860 to 1960.
It seems ARTstor has been very busy lately. Two agreements have been reached with the following organizations: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC): to release “hundreds” of images covering colonial, modern, and contemporary Latin American art (no specific number at this time) The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: to share over 600 images of…
With some end of the year money available, the California Digital Library has licensed three huge segments of the vendor Archivision‘s fantastic images of architecture and public art for all UC campuses. The Archivision Base Collection has 16,370 images “representing major Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th & 19th Century and Modern sites”. Archivision Module…
ARTstor has added new images from the following collections: American Institute of Indian Studies Archive in Gurgaon, Haryana, India: the first release of South Asian art and architecture images (more than 12,000 of what will be roughly 60,000 total) Carl and Jennifer Strom Archive: 3,200 unique images from Korean Buddhist monasteries and temples ARTstor has…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has introduced Artscope, a new way to browse 3,500-plus works from their collection. It employs a magnifying- glass feature that allows you to zoom in on a work from a large mosaic, or grid, of images. Or you can type in or select terms to focus your search. …