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Harvard University Libraries have created VIA (Visual Information Access), a growing online catalog uniting collections from various Harvard libraries and archives including the GSD, Fine Arts Library, Harvard Film Archive, Arnold Arboretum and Horticulture Library, and more. Documenting material culture, and social history, VIA is an excellent research tool, containing descriptive records and images representing paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans. New material is added daily.
Tags: ancient, archaeology, architectural history, architecture, archive, art history, arts, books, botany, campus architecture, cultural history, database, decorative arts, film, garden, gender studies, Harvard, illustrations, images, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, manuscripts, modern, neigborhood, photography, planning, postcards, science, textiles, theaters, transportation, urbanism, VIA, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 16, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art, allowing artists to post material themselves. Including video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature, the Database of Virtual Art provides a unique resource that assimilates the needs of the field. The ever-expanding collection combines immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic artworks with relevant links to exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references. This research-oriented site has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions, and endeavors to extend its services to the preservation of virtual art.
Tags: art, art history, Database of Virtual Art, digital art, digital images, film, genetic art, images, immersive art, installation art, interactive art, search tools, technology, telematic art
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on September 22, 2009 in art, images, photography | 1 Comment »
Newark Athlete from the Library of Congress’ collection of films from the Edison Company
The Library of Congress’ YouTube Channel includes a selection from their Early Film collection. The 1904 Westinghouse Works films illustrate turn of the century industry with panoramic views of factories, machines, and people working. The films from Edison Companies include athletes, contortionists, knife jugglers, Native American dancers as well as experiments in early sound recording.
Tags: film, Library of Congress, YouTube
Posted by Joan Winter on April 23, 2009 in art, images, words | No Comments »
Universal Newsreels, released biweekly from 1929 to 1967 for movie audiences, contain six or seven short stories, usually one to two minutes in length. There are over 600 films available on the Internet Archive. Universal Studios placed the newsreels in the public domain and the entire collection is available at the National Archives in Maryland.
Tags: film, Internet Archive, National Archives, news footage, YouTube
Posted by Joan Winter on April 13, 2009 in photography | No Comments »
The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is a non-profit organization working to collect film and video records of Texas history. TAMI focuses on collecting items about the state and its citizens, as well as those films shot by citizens. In the process, TAMI endeavors to educate the public about film conservation process and the importance of preserving this mode of capturing our historic experience. The TAMI Video Library currently holds commercial, educational, home-produced, military and Hollywood footage available through the Video Library main page.
Tags: archives, film, images, Texas
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 6, 2009 in art, image presentation, images, landscape | No Comments »
Case Study House No. 21
Pierre Koenig, architect, Los Angeles, 1958
On April 8th at 7:00 pm, the Austin Film Society will host a screening of Visual Acoustics: the Modernism of Julius Schulman at Alamo Drafthouse @ the Ritz. Directed by Erik Bricker and narrated by Dustin Hoffman, this award-winning documentary explores the uniquely individualistic life and architectural photography of 98-year old Schulman. The film includes interviews from architect Frank Gehry, designer Tom Ford and others, and achieves an authenticity true to Schulman’s own nuanced photographic aesthetic.
Tags: architecture, Austin Film Society, Case Study Houses, Dustin Hoffman, Erik Bricker, film, Frank Gehry, Julius Schulman, Los Angeles, modern, modernism, photography, Pierre Koenig, Tom Ford
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 1, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, photography | No Comments »
The Library of Congress’ Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 includes moving images of traffic, parades, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, paperboys, shopping, construction of skyscrapers, street cleaners and subways.
Tags: film, historic preservation, Library of Congress, New York
Posted by Joan Winter on December 15, 2008 in architectural history, photography | No Comments »
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