Posts Tagged ‘conservation’
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.
Tags: architectural history, Baroque, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, conservation, cultural history, France, French history, gardens, modern, modernism, neoclassicism, preservation, renassiance, social history, tourism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 23, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
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.
Tags: analog photography, conservation, museum, technique
Posted by Joan Winter on November 16, 2009 in images, photography | No Comments »
Point cloud of Rapu Nui
CyArk digitally preserve cultural heritage sites through collecting, archiving and providing open access to data created by laser scanning, and digital modeling. Besides project galleries which document cultural heritage sites via photographs and 3-d media , CyArk has developed the Hazard Map, which helps preservationists visualize sites at risk.
Tags: conservation, heri, hi, historic preservation, prese, preservation, world heritage
Posted by Joan Winter on November 1, 2009 in architectural history, maps | No Comments »
Crowd at Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Park, circa 1950s. Courtesy of PBS.
Ken Burn’s documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea “traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years.” The film’s website includes over 800 historic documents – photographs, film clips, and newspaper articles.
The entire six part documentary will be available online from September 28-October 9. Deleted scenes and untold stores are also available, including a 15 minute film entitled San Antonio Missions: Keeping History Alive.
Tags: community, conservation, documentary, enviornmentalism, green, historic preservation, history, Ken Burns, National Parks, NPS, parks, PBS
Posted by Joan Winter on September 28, 2009 in landscape, photography | No Comments »
Created by the Image Permanence Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology, the Graphic Atlas explores the science behind prints from the pre-photographic to the digital. With magnified views of the emulsion, and of the print under various light sources, the Graphic Atlas aids in the identification and understanding of photographic processes.
Tags: conservation, Graphic Atlas, photographic processes, photography
Posted by Joan Winter on April 15, 2009 in art, images, photography | No Comments »
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