Tag: Artstor

  • Artstor adds 32,000 images of contemporary art

    Artstor and Larry Qualls have released approximately 32,000 images of contemporary art exhibited in the New York area in the past three decades. This release joins the more than 100,000 images already available in the Larry Qualls Archive, including images of all the major figures equated with contemporary art from the 1980s to the present.…

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  • Art in context: installation photography on Artstor

    From The Artstor Blog archive: If you read a review or article about an interesting museum exhibition you missed you can usually find images of the featured artworks. But have you ever wondered how the works were presented, where they were placed? Which pieces were shown together, and in what order? Exhibition design is central…

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  • Artstor image download improvements

    Artstor just announced that with the latest system update users can now download individual images as JPGs – they are no longer zip files, which means you save a step. The second bit of good news is that the embedded metadata function is now working, so that information travels with the downloaded image.   You can…

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  • 10,000 architectural views, plans and drawings added to Artstor

    Artstor just announced the unveiling of a valuable new addition to their collection: 10,000 architectural photos, plans, sections, and other drawings.   And this is just phase I – the collection will be doubling in size.  This new content comes via a collaboration with the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Avery…

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  • New ARTstor image group download feature

    Individual ARTstor image downloads have become a nuisance due to the zip filing and extra steps.  But they’ve now made it possible to download a whole image group as a zip file, which eliminates a lot of those steps.   There’s a quick video here that explains how to do it. Have a look at the…

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  • How do you browse through 1.6 million images?

    With the beginning of the academic year fast approaching, ARTstor offers this refresher on navigating through their ever-growing library of images. This post covers browsing the four categories of Geography, Classification (i.e. media), Collection, and Featured Groups. Another helpful browsing tool is the Associated Images icon () at the bottom of some thumbnails: clicking on this…

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