Posts Tagged ‘photographs’
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.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, art history, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Bildindex, drawings, Europe, European architecture, German architecture, Germany, Italian architecture, manuscripts, modernism, painting, photographs, plans, Renaissance, search tool
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 17, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | 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 »
behold allows you to browse flickr for images that are free to use and modify or circulate commercially. This search tool simplifies the process of determining limits of use while enabling the user to access a wide range of photographs taken and published by amateurs and professionals the world over.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, behold, copyright, digital images, fair use, Flickr, landscape, photographs, photography, sustainability, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 2, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, copyright, image presentation, images, landscape, 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 »
The California Museum of Photography explores photographic media through exhibition, collection, publication, and the web to examine the history of photography and showcase current practice in photography and related media. The museum’s online search tool allows the browser to search through nearly 55,000 records including images of industry, science and nature, portraits, photographic equipment, and much more.
Tags: art, art history, California Museum of Photography, database, photographs, photography, University of California Riverside
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 23, 2009 in architecture, art, images, photography | No Comments »
Brown University Library Center for Digital Initiatives hosts the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection, an assembly of photographic and textual sources chronicling the events surrounding the 1923 Kanto Earthquake. The collection includes an album that features some of the earliest photographs of the destruction taken by Americans, and consists of over 100 original photographs taken in Yokohama, Kyoto, Shanghai, and Hawaii, as well as many photographs purchased in Japan that document the devastation. Additional items include newspaper clippings, photographic portraits of the Reynolds family, telegrams, postcards, and travel keepsakes, including ship passenger lists, itineraries, programs and menus.
Tags: Brown University, cultural relations, Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection, disaster, Japanese history, Kanto Earthquake, photographs, photography, research tools, visual culture, visual memory, visual resource collections
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 18, 2009 in images, landscape, 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 »
Case Study house #22, 1960
Pierre Koenig, architect
Julius Schulman, photographer
USC Professor of History and Political Science Philip Ethington has developed two websites confronting the issues that plague urban historical investigations of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: The Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge, completed 2000-2001, examines the city through images and essays, both historical and historiographical, to treat the subject comprehensively. Though somewhat technologically outmoded, the content is viable and includes images ranging from photographs, plans, models, maps, photomontages, and “reflexive index sets,” historic images grafted onto a photograph of the here and now to demonstrate the scope of site history.
The second site of interest, Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1954-2000, uses two forms of narrative to discuss the city’s history in terms of cultural, economic and political landscapes. Yet unfinished, the site presently includes three short essays focusing on the history of Hollywood, aeronautics and the oil industry in Los Angeles complemented by a photographic narrative featuring Klansmen and tire workers alongside those of Hollywood fame and photos of the city’s Case Study houses by Julius Schulman.
Tags: architecture, Case Study Houses, images, Julius Schulman, landscape, Los Angeles, maps, Philip Ethington, photographs, urban historiography, urban history, urbanism, visual studies
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 31, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel, Florida Southern College by Frank Lloyd Wright
With the help of two grants from the Campus Heritage Initiative of the Getty Foundation, the Council of Independent Colleges has developed a database, the Historic Campus Architecture Project (HCAP), that organizes university sites of historic, architectural, and educational significance by type, style, designer, function, and time period. HCAP currently hosts information for buildings at nearly 400 participating institutions of higher learning, and will continue to grow through an ongoing application process developed to ensure the inclusion of significant collegiate buildings and building clusters, landscapes, and campus master plans.
Tags: Add new tag, architectural history, architecture, bibliography, campus planning, collegiate architecture, Council of Independent Colleges, educational architecture, landscape architecture, photographs, plans
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 11, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, copyright, images, landscape | No Comments »
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