Posts Tagged ‘images’
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.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, clip art, culture, design, illustrations, images, Inmagine, landscape, landscape architecture, photography, stock images, stock photography, urban design, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 15, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
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.
Tags: Berlin Wall, communism, Europe, German history, German Missions in the United States, German reunification, historical memory, images, Interactive Museum, Newseum, online exhibits, photography, The Cold War Museum, Washington D.C., Wende
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 10, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, photography | No Comments »
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history in ten historic periods ranging from the early modern period to the present. Each section includes an introduction to key historical developments as well as a selection of primary source documents (in German and English), images and relevant maps. All of the materials can be accessed through keyword and author searches. Advanced options also allow searches to be limited and refined.
Tags: 20th-century Germany, architectural history, architecture, art history, documents, early modern Germany, German history, German History in Documents and Images, GHDI, images, maps, modern Germany, photography, translated documents
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 9, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography, words | No Comments »
With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, Bridgeman Art Library is a comprehensive source for fine art, architectural and historical images. Bridgeman’s search tools allow the user to browse the collection thematically (architecture, land and sea, emotions and ideas, etc.) and by image type (black and white photograph, object, illustration, etc.), artist, and participating collections.
Tags: architectural history, art, art history, Bridgeman Art Library, cultural history, culture, database, image collections, images, interior design, landscape architecture, photographs, sculpture, urban design, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 4, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
7,200 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture donated by leading South Asian Islamic art and architectural historian Alka Patel and 500 images of Japanese art, architecture, and festivals created by David Boggett are now available in ARTstor. In addition, over 80,000 photographs of high-quality photographs of major world events and personalities, 1,000 images of works on paper by Mark Rothko, and 1,400 images of medieval stained glass windows from the 12th through 16th centuries have also been made available.
Tags: Alka Patel, architectural history, architecture, art, ARTstor, David Boggett, image presentation, images, Islamic architecture, Japanese architecture, Japanese art, Mark Rothko, photographs, photography, South Asian architecture, visual resources collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 28, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
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 Yale University Art Gallery’s eCatalogue allows internet users to search its collection of over 185,000 objects. Organized into ten curatorial areas, these objects range from African ritual figures and masks to American ceramics, Asian lacquerwar, and modern and contemporary sculpture and painting. Yale’s eCatalogue is an excellent resource for material culture incorporating traditional gallery arts as well as objects of industrial culture.
Tags: architecture, art history, cultural history, cultural objects, database, decorative arts, images, industrial design, interior design, search tools, Yale University Art Gallery eCatalogue
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 15, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
Over 3,000 new images of architecture, applied design, and American popular culture are available in ARTstor. Collections shared by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Slide Library and Bryn Mawr College include images of site plans for ancient and medieval architectural and archeological sites along with images of American pop culture and design. Photographs of American architecture taken by Dov Friedman have also been added.
Tags: American architecture, ancient architecture, applied art, architectural history, architecture, art, art history, ARTstor, cultural history, Dov Friedman, images, medieval architecture, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, photographs, photography, visual resources collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 13, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
The California State University IMAGE Project has assembled almost 75,000 images for into its WorldImages database (formerly known as WorldArt). Organized into portfolios, the database includes a wide range of content from around the globe including images of cities and building technology, religious and cultural art and artifacts, architecture, material culture, and more. In addition WorldImages hosts a few special collections including faculty contributions, special exhibits and the Sourisseau Academy Clark B. Waterhouse Collection.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, art history, California State University, cultural history, culture, image collection, images, sociology, technology, urban design, urbanism, visual culture, visual resource collections, WorldImages
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 3, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
The SOA Photo Union will be open to students for free during the fall 2009 semester (there are a few spots still open). In order to use the facilities students (undergraduate and graduate) have to sign up at the Visual Resources Collection (SUT 3.128) or send an e-mail to the address below.
We are officially reopening the (Black and White Print) Photo Lab (SUT 1.104) in October. In the following weeks, more information will be sent out concerning workshops, group printings, and competitions we are planning. Please contact the new Photography TA at tahinee@gmail.com for more information or to sign up. We have also published a new Facebook Page, please become a fan by searching: “University of Texas School of Architecture Photo Union”
We hope you can join us!
Tags: Film Photography, Flickr, images, internet, Membership, Photo Union, photography
Posted by Tahinee Felix Marin on October 1, 2009 in Uncategorized, architecture, art, blog, photography | No Comments »
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