Category: image searching

  • Studying ephemera of American culture

    Saul Zalesch, Associate Professor of Art History at Louisiana Tech University, curates a website dedicated to the “identification, preservation, publicizing, and study of ephemeral publications that provide more-nuanced pictures of American culture and life”. The site includes a gallery of more obscure objects (posters and labels, for example, are not included) and readers are encouraged…

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  • MIT Visualizing Cultures

    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…

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  • Magnum Photos archive moves to Texas

    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…

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