With some end of the year money available, the California Digital Library has licensed three huge segments of the vendor Archivision‘s fantastic images of architecture and public art for all UC campuses. The Archivision Base Collection has 16,370 images “representing major Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th & 19th Century and Modern sites”. Archivision Module…
Photographer Richard Ross came by yesterday to photograph this “organic installation” at the VRC. We will soon be adding nearly 700 Richard Ross photographs to the VRC image database. They will include images from his publications Museology (1989), Gathering Light (2000), Waiting for the End of the World (2004), and Architecture of Authority (2007),…
Material that we have added to the image database recently includes: Victorian painting (90 images) Nineteenth and twentieth-century photography (250 images) Moche, Inca and Tiahuanaco (Andean Peru) ceramics, textiles, maps and archaeological material (200 images) Twentieth-century contextual material (news photographs, political documents, etc.) (300 images) If you would like a database account and/or orientation please…
Just came across this blog with an unusual focus: Prison Photography (The Practice of Photography in Sites of Incarceration). It contains some striking historic and current photographs, of and about prisons, and interesting commentary and posts.
Red Dot visited the new Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City on the weekend and found it an interesting experience on many levels. The physical space is fresh, and rethinks the way photography can be exhibited and viewed. The current show on eleven Los Angeles-based photographers covers a wide array of content, style, technique,…
The NY Public Libraries Digital Gallery has expanded and now includes a vast array (more than 30,000 images) of maps, early advertisements and photographs, posters, scientific illustrations, and much more. This link goes to the main NYPL Picture Collection page.