Photography
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Finding Images on the Web
This is a great tutorial and guide to finding, using, images on the Web.
NEW SITE: Smithsonian Photography Initiative[6]
Smithsonian has more than 13 million images in some seven hundred collections throughout our museums and research centers. The collections are organized by museum and discipline — for instance, the National Museum of Natural History holds natural science images in its collections, the National Air and Space Museum houses images of flight in its archives, and the National Museum of African Art holds photographs of Africa in its collections. We believe that the Smithsonian's ability to look at photography broadly and in context makes the institution unique.
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is:
- A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data;
- The tools to actively use those images; and
- A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.
Gove Art Online[22][8] Dictionary and Image database
Searching is facilitated by searching by words and/or terms, by artist biographies, by image(s) and/or by full-text. The database also makes it possible to search for external images related to the Dictionary. More than 30,000 external image links are currently associated with articles which point to images of art works held in public museum collections throughout the world.
Includes photograph archives, news photos, art, and history images.
Image Resources: Colby College Image collection site.[10]
This is a wonderful site, inclusive. Worth checking out.
New York Public Library Photographic Collection[24][11]
The Photography Collection contains nearly 300,000 original photographic prints, from the medium's 150+ year history, representing an international range of photographers and comprising a thorough survey of subjects and processes.
During their tenure as the leading fine arts photography firm in New York from 1906 to 1975, Peter A. Juley & Son assembled a collection of 4,700 photographic portraits of artists. These images capture some of the most well-known artists of the twentieth century, including Alexander Calder, Edward Hopper, Frida Kahlo, Franz Kline, Jacob Lawrence, Barnett Newman, Diego Rivera and Grant Wood. Many of the portraits depict their subjects at work in their studios or at home with their families and offer interesting glimpses into the artistic and social climate of the period. The Juleys also made hundreds of group photographs recording the histories of the National Academy of Design and Art Students League and documenting summer art colonies at Provincetown, Woodstock, Old Lyme and Ogunquit.
View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty
renowned collections. Explore these collections using the Insight® Browser[27][14]
with no download required, or the Insight® Java Client[28][15] with advanced
functionality, requiring one time download. View the collections individually
with the Insight Browser or Java Client. With the Insight Java Client, combine
several collections from one category, or combine any collection from
the View All tab.
Virtual Museum of Islamic Art[29][16]
This provides images, which can be enlarged and "explored" using mouse and cursor, of over 1200 items, including illustrated and illuminated manuscripts. Extensive catalogue details and documentation are provided for each piece. They are supplied by museums in Algeria, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and UK. Among them is at least one library (Uppsala University). Some of the items have been little known or studied previously.