Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
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dpBestflow is comprehensive and clearly written guide from ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) that covers every aspect of digital photography. Learn how digital cameras really work, understand the difference between GPS, XMP, IFTC awith the glossary, and integrate best practices for image editing, file management, digital archiving, and copyright with your workflows.
The Centre des Monuments Nationaux conserves, restores, and manages nearly 100 national monuments, opening up these sites of social, cultural, and architectural history for public consumption. The website uses a geographic search feature to locate pages devoted to the Pantheon, Tours Cathedral, the house of George Sand, and many more. Monument pages include photographs and videos, points of historical interests, details about tours and other activities on site, and a list of literature specific to the building.
Rhizome is an online community and publication “dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.” The site includes contemporary examples of works investigating the intersection of art, technology and culture, with an archive dating back to the early 1990s.
The App Garden on Flickr brings together all the “home grown” applications created with the Flickr API. API’s allow developers to write programs using public data – photos, video, tags, profiles or groups – that allow you to explore Flickr’s content in new and different ways.
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur consists of around 2 million images of art and architecture located in Germany and throughout Europe. While Bildindex is a German-language site, it is navigable for the English speaker through interactive features that provide information about the current location and history of the image object. The product of over 30 years of collection development, Bildindex hosts a wide range of image types (drawings, photographs, paintings, prints, plans) as well as special collections and continues to grow by sponsoring further digitization projects.
The George Eastman House has created a wiki-style resource, Notes on Photographs, for students, historian, collectors, curators, conservators and archivists to facilitate deeper understanding of photographic techniques. With the rise in market value, lack of reference resources, and closing of chemical imagining plants, there is a greater need than ever before to study and observe traditional photographs.
Inmagine is the world’s largest royalty-free stock photography site with over 3.5 million images from over 100 best-selling collections. With images organized into galleries and categories, they are easy to search even without using Inmagines innovative search tools including Insight keyword search and Universal Search, a mechanism using geography and language detection to locate images. In addition, Inmagine offers a number of services including image enlargement and retouching.
The University of Chicago Center for the Art of East Asia is creating a database of Chinese handscroll paintings in a scrolling digital format. The Digital Scrolling Paintings Project aims to create a database that at once provides access to these rarely displayed artifacts while enabling a full investigation of the images and ideograms rendered.
Smallen House, 1957
The Philip Johnson Glass House and the State of Connecticut announced Phase III in their efforts to move modern preservation forward with the launch of the new documentary film Living Modern in Connecticut. Living Modern examines modern architecture in Connecticut including the work of Saarinan and Breuer asking if this architecture is danger of disappearing. The film premiers on CPTV Thursday, November 12th.
In addition, The Philip Johnson Glass House is teaming with the State and number of other local and regional civic and preservation organizations to create a the Multiple Property Documentation Form. The Multiple Property Documentation Form will further the work of the 2008 Modern Homes Survey by facilitating the effort to identify and preserve modern homes in Connecticut in addition to providing registry with the National Register of Historic Places.
Yesterday celebrated the 20th anniversary of the symbolic collapse of European communism. The fall of the Berlin Wall continues to impact the process of historical meaning-making trough the creation of new social identities as the east and west work to reconcile 40 years of difference. This history has been chronicled in a number of scholarly publications, while museums, exhibits and online archives have been dedicated to collecting and preserving objects and artifacts, news material, and personal testimony. Below you will find a few resources that ground this momentous event in the context of the past, present and future.
German Mssions in the United States has created a webpage devoted to Looking Back at the Fall of the Berlin Wall. This site incorporates a timeline, articles, images and videos that examine the tandem histories of the GDR and Federal Republic, Cold War history in the U. S., and comparative pictographic history of the life of the wall before and after the Wende. In addition, the Berlin Wall Image Gallery couples with a number of other links to offer a broad range of resources on the Wall.
A respository for virtual exhibitions examining the period of the Cold War, the Cold War Museum has created an exhibit devoted to the history of the Berlin Wall. The exhibit includes photographs by Official US Army Photographer, Hugh Palmer, and are merely one component in a larger visual history of the Cold War preserved by this virtual museum.
The Newseum celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a gallery exhibit that immerses the visitor in the history of the fall with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. The Berlin Wall exhibit features eight 12-foot-high concrete sections of wall and a guard tower, and focuses on the permeability of the wall highlighting the role of radio and television broadcasts in creating an awareness of western politics and culture in East Germany.
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