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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.
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.
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.
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.
Travel site Arounder uses Google maps to organize interactive, panoramic exhibits of a number of European cities and a few American sites. For each location listed on Arounder, a number of panoramic views are available including views of church interiors, city streets, public plazas, and natural or manufactured landscapes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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