For the first time the National Geographic Society will be putting photographs from its archives on sale. As reported in the New York Times a selection from the archives will be offered through the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan, beginning September 17. Several of the photos have never been published or exhibited, and most date…
Here is the latest list of interesting collection additions in the works at ARTstor: School of Architecture at UT-Austin: Completed release of more than 5,700 images from the Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (search terms: box wagner) Yale University Art Gallery: Approximately 18,000 images related to the ancient…
The New York Times has a terrific photojournalism blog called “Lens”. It includes both NYT photographers’ images as well as amateur photography, and incorporates photos, slideshows, and videos. There is also news on the art and practice of photography. Today’s showcase images are of people watching the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. The blog has…
ARTstor has just announced an important milestone: five years of service and over 1,000,000 images! Among those images are these new releases: Ezra Stoller Archive (via Esto Photographics): Photography of Modern architecture (the latest release brings the count to 7800 of 26,000 total images) ART on FILE Collection: Contemporary architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and…
The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, housed in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University, is now online and accessible to the public. This rare collection includes roughly 7,610 photographs, 230 glass lantern slides, and various additional materials from 1860 to 1960.
Eastman Kodak’s Blog 1000words posted an announcement today that they will “retire” Kodachrome slide film. Additional information can be found here. For those who love slide photography, or are old enough to have memories of family vacation slide shows (embarrassing or otherwise), this is a sad end of an era. To put a bit of…