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…
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…
The Big Picture, part of the Boston Globe online, is a massive archive of browsable and downloadable news photos. The up-to-the-minute images are organized by month and by categories such as Middle East, Religion, Daily Life, Disasters, etc. Each topic includes several photos, and in some cases (such as the post-Hurricane Ike group under “Disasters”)…
ARTstor has announced the following are available in the Digital Library: Brooklyn Museum Costumes (The Metropolitan Museum of Art): 5,883 high resolution images of highlights from the Brooklyn Museum now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute (keywords: brooklyn costume) The Samuel H. Kress Collection and National Gallery of Art: 1,757 images from…
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Department of Geography and The Jewish National and University Library offer a fantastic website dedicated to “maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities”. The site is searchable by area, mapmaker or year, and each image can be viewed in high…
ARTstor announced they have fixed the OIV compatibility issue with Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard). For more information and download instructions, click here. Note: ARTstor recommends deleting any previous installation of OIV you have on your computer first (to do this, simply drag the existing OIV icon from your Applications folder to the trash, then…