If you are interested in early 20th century Moscow, there is a collection of historic photographs recently posted on Flickr. These previously unpublished photographs were taken by the poster’s great grandfather while on a trip to the Russian city in 1909. The images are a part of cranewoods.com’s photostream and can be viewed by everyone;…
The website Rare Book Room offers a wide variety of books digitized by a company called Octavo (it is unclear whether they are still in business). Octavo digitally photographed a selection of books–about 400–from some of the world’s greatest libraries at medium/high resolution (in some cases at over 200 megabytes per page). Users can browse…
The University Library at the University of Heidelberg, with support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), now hosts complete digital access to nineteen art and satire journals from the 19th to early 20th century. These large scans are just the latest in the efforts by the Library to digitize their holdings of historic literature; for…
Over 2,000 works by Robert Mapplethorpe and an extensive collection of negatives, personal letters, and other documentation has been jointly acquired by LACMA and the J. Paul Getty Trust from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. The partners were chosen for several reasons, including the emergence of Los Angeles as a major cultural center, and the Getty…
Today marks the debut of ProjectNORMAN at the Norman Rockwell Museum. ProjectNORMAN (New Online Rockwell Media Art & Archive Network), begun in 2003, offers not only the museum’s collection but also all images from the artist’s catalogue raisonné, the contents of his last working studio, objects from the Norman Rockwell Archives (including reference photos and…
ARTstor’s latest additions to their Digital Library include: Judy Chicago: 367 works by the artist, author, feminist, and educator (keyword: judychicago) George Eastman House: the completion of 19,161 images illustrating the history of photography (keyword: eastmanhouse) And these institutions have agreed to contribute: Museum of the City of New York: over 55,000 images from prints,…