Posts Tagged ‘sociology’
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer to Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, captured images of everyday Russian life, leaving a visual record of peasant, proletariat, and imperial culture. This includes images of Russia’s iconic architecture, the status of transportation before 1917, and the diverse ethnic cosmology of empire. The Empire That Was Russia is a searchable database making these photographs available for academic and private consumption. Here, Prokudin-Gorskii’s black and white and sepia toned images have been converted into color through the digichromatography color rendering process resulting in a richer visual experience of the last days of the Russian Empire.
Tags: architectural history, art history, cultural history, digichromatography, photographic processes, photography, Russia, sociology
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 8, 2009 in 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 AMNH Division of Anthropology has digitized over 170,000 objects representing the peoples of Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Islands and the Americas. Accessable through the Division of Anthropology website, the collection includes images of textiles, medical paintings, carefully catalgued Mexican and Central American artifacts, and a special selection of images relevant to the study of Bhuddism.
Tags: American Museum of Natural History, anthropology, archaeology, art history, cultural history, culture, image collection, sociology, textiles, visual culture
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 1, 2009 in art, images, photography | No Comments »
Dome of the Rock in the Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem, Wellcome Images
The Wellcome Library has assembled an eclectic library of images that range from architectural photographs and representations to scanning electron micrographs (SEM) of cancer cells and bacteria. The Wellcome Library’s image collection is a useful resource for contextualizing architectural history, examining biological forms to create unique designs, and enhancing visual perspectives of the broader sphere of human biological, sociological, historical, and anthropological relations.
Tags: anthropology, architecture, art, biology, health, images, manuscripts, medicine, nature, orientalism, photography, religion, sociology, war, Wellcome Images, Wellcome Library
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 15, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography, words | No Comments »
Race, space, and politics will be the dominant themes at the University of Pennsylvania’s 2009 Unspoken Borders:The Ecologies of Inequality student design conference. The conference will highlight socio-economic and environmental concerns, focusing on key issues of infrastructure and design process. Registration is currently open for the conference to be held April 3rd and 4th.
Tags: architecture, ecology, economics, fine arts, historic preservation, landscape architecture, Penn, sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Unspoken Borders, urban planning, urbanism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on March 25, 2009 in architecture, art, landscape | No Comments »
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