The second phase of Richard Ross’ photography is now available through the VRC image database, MDID. This includes material from his books/projects “Man Up”, “Waiting for the End of the World” and “Suitable Placement: Juvenile Justice in America”. This brings the total to 481 images. You can read more about Richard and his work at…
ARTstor has partnered with SAHARA (Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive) to include SAH members’ photography. While much of this collection has only been available to SAH members, a large selection, called “Editor’s Choice” is now available to all ARTstor licensors. The SAHARA collection in ARTstor now has nearly 9,000 images, and 72 new…
Ever busy ARTstor has announced these new additions to their Digital Library: Dov Friedman: America and European Architecture: approximately 560 new photographs of historic and contemporary architecture in San Francisco, Washington DC and New York (38% of projected 1,500 total images completed; keyword search: dovfriedman) Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) Visual Resources Collection:…
Irving Penn, who started as fashion photography contributor at Vogue in 1943 and successfully crossed over to art photography, has died. A full obituary is here at the LA Times. The exhibition Irving Penn: Small Trades is on at the Getty Museum until January 10, 2010.
A lot of new material was added to MDID over the summer and in preparation for Fall courses. Some of the new material includes: over 450 images of architecture (including plans and drawings), city plans and environmental installations from Asia, Europe and North America 100 images of early landscape photography 600 images of Chinese painting…
It is with great pleasure that we unveil the first hosted collection in MDID, the Richard Ross collection. This is set up as a separate collection within our VRC image database, and so far contains the photographs from three of Ross’ publications: Museology (1989), Gathering Light (2000), and Architecture of Authority (2007). Select Browse to…