Just a reminder that the California Digital Library still supports Luna Insight, the image hosting and search tool that was tested by the UC campuses a few years ago. There are several terrific collections which are not available through ARTstor or other means at this time, for example: The National Palace Museum of Taipei (over…
The British Museum has a free image service that delivers high quality* digital scans of many works of art in their collection. To use this service, which allows you to receive 100 images per month for non-commercial use: Click the Use digital image button on any image page (located beneath the image thumbnail; if this…
The NY Public Libraries Digital Gallery has expanded and now includes a vast array (more than 30,000 images) of maps, early advertisements and photographs, posters, scientific illustrations, and much more. This link goes to the main NYPL Picture Collection page.
ARTstor just announced new images added to the following collections: Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations [Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University] (final release completed, with a collection of now 44,300 images, learn more) University of Michigan Asian Art Photographic Distribution [AAPD] (first release of 4,700 of 9,600 total, learn more)…
Cooliris is a plug-in for your browser which displays images in a wonderful “3D Wall” effect – you can browse your own image folders, or online image searches (google, flickr, etc.). There’s a great explanation of it here: http://aahvrc.blogspot.com/search?q=cooliris
ARTstor announced the following collections are now available: The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art (approximately 800 images, learn more) The Roy Lichtenstein Collection (800 images, learn more) MoMA Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection [The Museum of Modern Art Archives] (last release completed and totals roughly 16,700 images, learn more) Larry Qualls Archive of Contemporary Art…