Category: image searching
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Protest Preserved: Signs from D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence at the LoC
It was a year ago this week that the Black Lives Matter signs came down from the Lafayette Park fence where they had garnered national attention as a rallying point for protests for nearly a year. The park, across the street from the White House, had been fenced off to keep protesters at a distance.…
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Dada’s home: Organizations in France and the US Launch Vast Marcel Duchamp Research Portal
An expansive online research portal centered on the life and work of the artist Marcel Duchamp has been launched, giving the at-home investigators and Cubism-curious free access to more than 18,000 documents and around 50,000 images. The initiative is the result of a seven-year collaboration between three institutions, one American and two French, the Philadelphia…
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New LoC Research Guide: Cartoons and Caricatures
The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the publication of a new guide describing the Prints & Photographs Division’s large and varied collection of cartoon and caricature art. The guide includes two galleries of sample images, one for works by artists who were active predominantly before the 20th century and one for those active…