Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
IFAO: Inventaires des archives photographiques et documentation photographique en cours de publication
Inventaires des archives photographiques et documentation photographique en cours de publication (IFAO)
Cet inventaire regroupe toute espèce de support photographique : plaques de verre, négatifs souples (noir/blanc et couleurs), diapositives (coul. et n/b), fichiers numériques, microfilms, microfiches.
Les numéros de photos se lisent de la manière suivante :
- les 2 lettres identifient le type de support :
di = diapositive (coul. ou n/b)
nb = négatif noir et blanc
nc = négatif couleurs
nu = photo numérique
pv = plaque de verre ;
- les 4 chiffres du milieu désignent l’année de prise de vue (ou de numérisation lorsque l’année de prise de vue n’est pas connue) ;
- les 5 derniers chiffres indiquent la place de la photo dans l’année.
Remarque
Les tirages photographiques (ou épreuves photographiques) sont rangés avec les archives « papier ». Ils font souvent partie d’un ensemble plus vaste comprenant des notes manuscrites ou des dessins, ensemble que nous avons choisi de ne pas ventiler. Lorsque ces tirages sont de petit format : voir Inventaire des Archives manuscrites ; lorsqu’ils sont de grand format : voir Inventaire de la Planothèque.
Seuls les tirages correspondant à des négatifs ou plaques de verre détenus par l’Ifao sont mentionnés dans l’inventaire des archives photographiques. Les tirages photographiques dont l’Ifao ne possède pas les négatifs sont décrits uniquement dans l’inventaire des archives manuscrites ou de la Planothèque (sous la forme : ts_[pour : tirage scanné]_année_n°d’ordre dans l’année).
[« ts » peut aussi désigner un tirage scanné dont le négatif, détenu par l’Ifao, est en moins bon état de conservation que l’épreuve papier. Ce type de tirage est mentionné à la fois dans l’inventaire des archives manuscrites et dans celui des archives photographiques, avec un renvoi d’un inventaire à l’autre].
Les photographies d’œuvres ou de monuments en cours d’étude ou de publication ne peuvent être consultées qu’avec l’accord du commanditaire des prises de vue (pour plus d’informations, s’adresser au Service des archives).
Lorsque tous les inventaires des Archives seront terminés, une liste unique reprendra les noms d’auteurs et de sites présents à l’Ifao, avec leurs emplacements respectifs dans chaque fonds.
Monday, June 22, 2015
Ancient World Image Bank
Ancient World Image Bank
The Ancient World Image Bank is a collaborative effort to distribute and encourage the sharing of free digital imagery for the study of the ancient world. ISAW started AWIB by distributing imagery donated by its faculty, staff, and students via Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by) license. You can view and download those images via the isawnyu flickr account. That means that all you have to do to reuse one of our images is cite it in the manner indicated below.
Ancient World Image Bank Flickr Group
We now welcome everyone interested in improving the free availability of ancient world imagery to join us by adding their photos to this Ancient World Image Bank Flickr Group. Our only requirements are that the images be of sites and artifacts from the Ancient World, that you have the legal right to redistribute them, and that you do so under the terms of a Creative Commons license (preferably cc-by).
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The Qatar Digital Library (QDL)
The Qatar Digital Library (QDL)
What is the Qatar Digital Library?
The Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is making a vast archive featuring the cultural and historical heritage of the Gulf and wider region freely available online for the first time. It includes archives, maps, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and much more, complete with contextualised explanatory notes and links, in both English and Arabic.
How did the QDL come about?
The QDL has been developed as part of a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding on Partnerships between the Qatar Foundation, the Qatar National Library and The British Library. The website was developed by the Partnership in collaboration with Cogapp. The agreement of work for the first phase of the Partnership began in 2012, with the digitisation of a wide range of content from the British Library’s collections. Find out more about the Partnership.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Online Photographic Archive: Image Grid DAI Rome
Image Grid DAI Rome
The agglomeration of data in Arachne over the last three years led to the insight that the manual labour of creating metadata for every image seemed impractical. Between 2002 and 2007 the number of images stored in Arachne expanded from 50,000 to 200,000; our present stock of 820,000 images represents an increase of around 400%. In cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome, the “image_grid project” is seeking to solve these problems.
With the “image_grid project” we have automatically contextualised about 400,000 images from the photo library of the DAI Rome. Since its founding in 1928, the photo library of the DAI Rome has become one of the world ́s most im- portant archives for archaeological imagery and many scientists from all over the world visit it, in order to study these images.
The images were digitized using old microfche-slides and the only information was a printed index. We have created a digital image database using OCR, in order to take the structure of this index and by using the negative numbers of the images. We have also linked images automatically with complex metadata, which are derived from digitized inventories, scientifc reference works, images, which are now already stored in Arachne and other sources. Negative numbers are also used to connect images with OCR-texts (as in the iDAI.Bookbrowser or GoogleBooks), and by extracting knowledge from these books via text-mining we can connect new metadata to these digital images.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress
[First posted in AWOL 21 February 2913, updated 20 March 2015]
Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection
Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection
The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection (formerly known as the "Matson Photo Service Collection") contains over 23,000 glass and film negatives, transparencies, and photographic prints, created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. The collection came to the Library between 1966 and 1981, through a series of gifts made by Eric Matson and his beneficiary, the Home for the Aged of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Los Angeles (now called the Kensington Episcopal Home).
The American Colony Photo Department in Jerusalem was one of several photo services operating in the Middle East before 1900. Catering primarily to the tourist trade, the American Colony and its competitors photographed holy sites, often including costumed actors recreating Biblical scenes.
The American Colony outlasted the other services, successfully making the transition from 19th-century large-size albumen views to the smaller, less expensive picture postcard format which dominated the twentieth century. The firm’s photographers were actual residents of Palestine. Their intimate knowledge of the land and people gave them an advantage over commercial photographers who were not based in Palestine and made their coverage more comprehensive. They documented Middle East culture, history, and political events from before World War I through the collapse of Ottoman rule, the British Mandate period, World War II, and the emergence of the State of Israel.
The Matson Collection also includes images of people and locations in present-day Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. Additionally, the firm produced photographs from an East African trip. (For further background information on the American Colony and its Photo Department, see The American Colony and the Matson Photo Service).
This Collection:
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- About this Collection
- Background and Scope
- Bibliography
- The American Colony and the Matson Photo Service
- Digitizing the Collection
- Related Resources
- Rights And Restrictions
Browse By:
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(11)- Subjects
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And see also the Abdul Hamid II Collection
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Photos of Mosul Museum, Nimrud, Nineveh, Nebi Yunus, and Hatra
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From a posting on the IraqCrisis mailing list
Dear Colleagues,A follow-up message ads:
It is with a heavy heart that I send additional photos to you. The attached link will take you to a Dropbox set of photos of Hatra, Nimrud, Nineveh and Nebi Yunis (Jonah's Tomb) taken between 2008 - 2010.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fycr1mc92u3zba8/AAAjrfn_4trNHeVjbJFFxeQna?dl=0
The photos were taken at various times, including visits by Deputy Minister of Tourism and Antiquities representative Qais Rashid, UN/UNESCO representatives Jake Morland, Andrea Recchia, Tamar Teneishvili and Sami Al Khoja, museum expert Stuart Gibson, and numerous journalists including Jane Arraf, Steven Myers, Eros Hoagland, Quil Lawrence, and Alice Fordham, among others.
LTG Robert Caslen (Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy at West Point) conducted visits to Hatra and Nimrud in 2009 to assess the sites related to looting in his role as Commander of Multi-National Division North (MND-N) and Commander, 25th Infantry Division. He is shown in several photos, with his permission.
Pictures of our Iraqi colleagues have not been included or are very limited for their safety. Photos are my own except where noted: MP for Col. Mary Prophit, US Army, and DS for Diane Siebrandt, former US State Department Cultural Heritage advisor.
I hope these photos help answer questions about the sites' significance, and I would direct you to the Gates of Nineveh blog, where colleague Christopher Jones has done an excellent job identifying objects from the Mosul Museum. https://gatesofnineveh.wordpress.com/
I have also included a powerpoint and link to the National Museum images of the Nimrud Gold from the Queens' Tomb taken by U.S. Army photographer SFC Noreen Feeney in 2003. http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/secret/
Please let me know if you have questions and I will do my best to assist. Many thanks to Chuck Jones and our colleagues on the ground and in harm's way for keeping us up to date. Ore thoughts are especially with our Iraqi colleagues and friends during these devastating times.
Very respectfully,
Suzanne
Suzanne E. Bott, PhD, AICP
Project Director |Iraq & Afghanistan Heritage Conservation
Drachman Institute
College of Architecture, Planning, Landscape Architecture
The University of Arizona
http://capla.arizona.edu/drachman
Several people have asked if they may use the photos and/or forward the email to others. Yes to both; these are for educational and public awareness purposes. Please feel free to use them in whatever capacity, and please provide photo credit to Mary, Diane, or to me.As readers might imagine, there has been increased traffic on IraqCrisis recently. Readers of AWOL are invited to joint that list if you are interested in reliable information on threats to cultural property in Iraq.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
West Semitic Research Project
[First posted in AWOL 1 February 2010, updated (new text and links) 25 February 2015]
West Semitic Research Project
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West Semitic Research Project
The West Semitic Research Project is an academic project affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Religion and directed by Dr. Bruce Zuckerman. For the past 32 years WSRP has used advanced photographic and computer imaging techniques to document objects and texts from the ancient world. In doing this we have built a vast collection of images that we are now making available to scholars, students, educators and the general public through a variety of ways. Leningrad Codex Bruce Zuckerman and Marilyn Lundberg photographing the Leningrad Codex in the Russian National Library (Saltkov-Shchedrin) as part of a joint project between West Semitic Research and the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center in Claremont, California.
WSRP was started in the early 1980s by Bruce Zuckerman and his brother Kenneth. Bruce, a scholar and teacher of the Bible and ancient Semitic languages, was frustrated by the lack of good photographs of important ancient inscriptions. With the help of his brother, Ken, he set out to remedy the situation.
The study of ancient writing is called epigraphy. In this field it has been typical of scholars who read ancient texts to do their own reading, produce a drawing of the text and publish the drawing, translation and transcription as the main tool for study. Photographs, if provided, can rarely be used for study. The reason is that the photographs are either taken by scholars who know little about photography, or by photographers who cannot read what they are looking at and so may miss important data.
The most important principle that governs the work of the WSRP is the combining of good photography with knowledge of the scripts and languages. We believe in training scholars to be good photographers, or at least encouraging them to work closely with photographers to get the best possible results.
Educational Site
Ancient Texts Relating to the Biblical World El-Kerak
MRZH Text
Cuneiform Tablet
Amman Citadel
Heshbon Ostraca
Incirli Stela
Cylinder Seals
El-Amarna Tablets
Kingdom of Sam'al
Kilamuwa
Hadad
Panamu
Bar Rakkib II, III
Biblical Manuscripts Leningrad Codex
Leningrad f.40b
Leningrad Carpet Page
Dead Sea Scrolls Discovery
Testimonia
Isaiah Pesher
Congregation
Copper Scroll
Qohelet
Words of Moses
USCARC Etruscan Pendant
Isis
Deity on a Bull
Ushabti
Sasanian Seals
Seals
Coins
Bullae
Collections Moussaieff
Annenberg Exhibition
Epigraphy Chicken Little
Papyrus Grain
Archaeological Petra
Jerash
Qusayr `Amra
St. Catherine's
Scholarly Site
Assyriological Texts
Dead Sea Scrolls
Elephantine Papyri
Leningrad Codex
Non-Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Other Papyri
Syrus Siniaticus
Ugaritic Tablets
Uninscribed Objects
USCARC Collection
InscriptiFact Database
Adobe Photoshop Manual
Training Program in the Use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
Monday, February 23, 2015
Das Digitale Schott-Archiv (DSA): Altägyptische Monumente und Antiken in Photographien des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts
[First posted in AWOL 9 June 2010, updated (corrected links) 23 February 2015]
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Das Digitale Schott-Archiv (DSA): Altägyptische Monumente und Antiken in Photographien des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts
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Das Digitale Schott-Archiv (DSA): Altägyptische Monumente und Antiken in Photographien des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts
Einführung und Hinweise zur Datenbank
Das im Rahmen eines zweijährigen DFG-Projektes erstellte DIGITALE SCHOTT ARCHIV umfasst knapp 8000 einmalige Schwarz/Weiss-Fotografien bedeutender Denkmäler und archäologischer Stätten Ägyptens.
Das Archiv ist nun erstmals frei im Internet zugänglich. Eine mit dem Bildarchiv verknüpfte Datenbank ermöglicht eine gezielte Bildmaterial-Suche, etwa zu bestimmten Orten oder Schott-Photo-Nummern. Die Nutzung dieser Datenbank und die Einsichtnahme in das Archiv sind kostenfrei.
Die DSA-Datenbank befindet sich noch in der Konsolidierungsphase. Hinweise, Anregungen, Verbesserungsvorschläge u. ä. bitte an die e-mail Adresse: w2schott@uni-trier.de
Benutzung der Datenbank Wählen Sie im Menü auf der linken Seite den Eintrag Datenbanksuche aus, um bestimmte Fotografien aus dem Archiv aufzurufen. Die Felder des nun erscheinenden Suchformulars sind selbsterklärend. Wenn Sie mit dem Cursor das jeweilige Eingabefeld berühren, wird ein kurzer Informationstext zum Suchfeld angezeigt. Unter „Objekt“ kann z. B. auch nach Besitzernamen (Gräber, Papyri) oder Aufbewahrungsorten gesucht werden. Die Namen der Grabbesitzer richten sich nach B. Porter/R.L.B. Moss, „Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings“ (Oxford: Griffith Institute).
Textfelder, wie z. B. "Ort" oder "Objekt" werden nach der eingegeben Buchstabenfolge komplett abgesucht, als Treffer werden alle Datensätze angezeigt, in denen diese Kombination an beliebiger Stelle vorkommt: Eine Suche nach "art" ergibt bspw. Treffer mit "Garten", "Block mit Kartusche" usw.
Die von Ihnen eingegebene Buchstabenfolge wird vom Programm als Komplettbegriff interpretiert, Leerzeichen gelten nicht als Trenner zwischen mehreren Begriffen; "Kartusche Ramses" findet also nur Eintragungen, in denen auch "Kartusche Ramses" in genau dieser Zeichenfolge steht. Verwenden Sie daher möglichst kurze und wenig komplexe Suchbegriffe bei der Eingrenzung des Bildmaterials.
Die Suche nach Orten kann über das Roll-up im entsprechenden Feld erfolgen.
Nachdem Sie eine Suchabfrage gestartet haben, werden die Treffer in einer listenartigen Übersicht angezeigt; dabei sind jeweils 15 Suchergebnisse pro Seite zu sehen. Sie gelangen zu den nächsten (bzw. vorigen) Datensätzen Ihrer Suche, indem Sie im linken Menü auf next bzw. prev klicken.
Um einen Datensatz im Detail anzuzeigen, klicken Sie auf die unterstrichene Zahl (ID) vor dem Datensatz, dort ist dann auch die Abbildung dazu zu sehen.
In der Detailansicht können Sie auf dieselbe Weise wie in der Listenansicht navigieren, mit next und prev wird der folgende bzw. vorige Datensatz im Detail angezeigt.
Die Ergebnisse Ihrer Suche bleiben solange aktiv, bis eine neue Suche gestartet wird, egal ob Sie zwischendurch die Hilfefunktion etc. ansehen. Um wieder alle Datensätze aufzurufen und Ihre Suche zurückzusetzen, klicken Sie bitte auf Home im linken Menü.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
The Fouad Debbas Collection: assessment and digitisation of a precious private collection. Photographs from Maison Bonfils (1867-1910s), Beirut, Lebanon
The Fouad Debbas Collection: assessment and digitisation of a precious private collection. Photographs from Maison Bonfils (1867-1910s), Beirut, Lebanon
British Library Endangered Archives Programme
British Library Endangered Archives Programme
The aim of this project is to clean, list, index, catalogue and digitise a collection of 3,000 photographs produced in the Middle East by the Maison Bonfils, from 1867 to the 1910s.
The 3,000 items consist of albumen prints gathered in albums and portfolios, glass plates, stereos, cabinet cards and cartes de visite. They are part of the general Fouad Debbas Collection, which contains more than 40,000 photographs. The objective is to undertake a survey, and increase access to and visibility of this most valuable and endangered collection.
The Fouad Debbas Bonfils collection is the most extensive, varied and richest photographic collection produced in the Levant at the end of the Ottoman period. It is in fact one of the very few photographic collections produced in Beirut from the late Ottoman period which are still preserved.
Established in 1867 in Beirut, the Bonfils house set out the first photographic studio in Beirut and established photography as a business. As such Mr Bonfils, his wife Lydie, (apparently the first woman photographer of the whole area at that time) and children, all succeeded in capturing a region of immense physical beauty (the landscape photos of Beirut and Baalbeck), of varied ethnic composition (various portraits), and of rapid socio-economic change, at a crucial moment of the region’s history. The Bonfils Debbas collection is clearly an invaluable document registering the history of a region at a crucial crossroads in the wake of great historical upheaval which was about to sweep the region and bring about the Modern Middle East as we know it...
VIEW FILES FROM THIS PROJECT
The catalogue is available here.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Wiki Loves Monuments Italia: Un concorso fotografico che valorizza il patrimonio culturale italiano su Wikipedia
Wiki Loves Monuments Italia: Un concorso fotografico che valorizza il patrimonio culturale italiano su Wikipedia
Il 2014 è l’anno della terza edizione di Wiki Loves Monuments Italia, il concorso fotografico che potenzia la visibilità dei monumenti e invita ciascuno ad essere protagonista nel documentare, valorizzare e tutelare il patrimonio culturale. Comune denominatore delle immagini che possono partecipare a Wiki Loves Monuments è il soggetto degli scatti: un monumento.
Con il termine monumento si fa riferimento ad un vastissimo genere di opere: edifici, sculture, siti archeologici, strutture architettoniche, siti naturali e interventi dell’uomo sulla natura che hanno grande valore dal punto di vista artistico, storico, estetico, etnografico e scientifico.Come per le passate edizioni, gli obiettivi principali del progetto sono:
- valorizzare e documentare l’immenso patrimonio culturale italiano, promuovendone la ricchezza artistico-culturale presso una vasta platea internazionale,
- invitare tutti i cittadini a documentare la propria eredità culturale, realizzando fotografie con licenza libera, nel pieno rispetto del diritto d’autore e della legislazione italiana,
- aumentare la consapevolezza della necessità di tutela dei monumenti, preservandone la memoria.
Wiki Loves Monuments is a photographic contest which improves the visibility of monuments and invites everyone to be a protagonist in the documentation, valorization and conservation of cultural heritage.In Italy, Wiki Loves Monuments contributes with the involvement of volunteers and istitutions to the creation of a list of cultural goods with identification codes released under a free license, to the production of Wikipedia pages and images for Wikimedia Commons.
The photo taken in Italy for the contest must follow the “Code Urbani”, the Italia Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, which states that to publish a photograph of any Italian monument, even those whose copyright has expired, you must obtain permission from the “legitimate owner”; the permission usually requires the payment of a fee if the pictures are not for personal use.
In order to publish pictures of Italian cultural heritage and landscape, people must therefore knock on the door of all the entities involved (Ministry, curators, regions, provinces, metropolitan cities, municipalities and private entities) to discover the legitimate owners. A massive undertaking, but the team of Wikimedia Italy, organizer of the Italian branch of the contest, does not give up and finds a lot of partners.
The italian contest has some specific regulations and its winners will partecipate as finalists in the international contest.
The rules to partecipate are the following:
- You need to have a valid e-mail address.
- You have to be the author of the pictures you upload.
- Pictures have to be uploaded during september (from the first of the month ‘till the 30th).
- Pictures have to be released under a CC-BY-SA license.
- The subject of the pictures has to be one of the italian monuments from the lists.
- Pictures have to contain the indentification code of the depicted monument.
- You can partecipate with as many pictures as you wish.
- There are no limitations or rules about the resolution and manipulation of the pictures.
- You can also partecipate with old pictures, but you still have to be the author of them.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
The Dorothy Garrod Photographic Archive
The Dorothy Garrod Photographic Archive
This website gives research access to around 750 negatives taken by Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) mostly relating to archaeological research in present-day Israel in the early 1930s. Garrod is a major figure, both in British archaeology and academia more generally, having been the first prehistorian, and first woman, to be elected to a professorship (Disney Professor of Archaeology) at Cambridge University, a post which she held from 1939 until 1952. Trained by R. R. Marett at Oxford and the Abbé Henri Breuil in France, she was famed for her excavations in Gibraltar, Palestine, Southern Kurdistan, Anatolia, and Bulgaria. She discovered the well-preserved skull fragments of 'Abel', a Neanderthal child, in Gibraltar, identified the Natufian culture while excavating Shukbah near Jerusalem, led long term excavations at Mt Carmel, established the Palaeolithic succession for that important region and then travelled, in 1938, to explore the important Palaeolithic cave of Bacho Kiro in Bulgaria.
Her important collection of original negatives was donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum by her prehistorian colleague and executor Suzanne Cassou de Saint Mathurin in 1986. A further important collection of Garrod's prints and documents exists in the Mathurin collection at the Musée des Antiquités Nationales, St Germain-en-Laye, France.
At present the collection is documented briefly according to original notes. It is hoped that this website will allow researchers to help improve the descriptions and interpretations of the material. Correspondence: ms-photo.colls@prm.ox.ac.uk
Source: http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/garrod/index.html#ixzz30TmetRfm
The Dorothy Garrod image gallery is organized according to accession number and is not necessarily chronological or grouped by archaeological site. Click on a thumbnail to see detail page, with options to view a larger image and download it for academic research and personal use only. All images are copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Online Photographs: Breasted's 1919-1920 Expedition to the Near East
[First posted in AWOL 26 May 2010, updated 23 March 2014]
Breasted's 1919-1920 Expedition to the Near East
Breasted's 1919-1920 Expedition to the Near East
These 1,875 photographs chronicle Illinois native James Henry Breasted's daring travels through Egypt and Mesopotamia in the unstable aftermath of World War I. Breasted, a leading Egyptologist, was the founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and this journey was the first Oriental Institute project. The goals of his ambitious expedition were to acquire artifacts for the new Institute and to select sites for later excavation.
Our Museum's companion exhibit, Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919-20, is open to the public from January 12 through August 29, 2010.
This photographic exhibit is the third major installment of the Oriental Institute's on-line Photographic Archives. It joins PERSEPOLIS AND ANCIENT IRAN: CATALOG OF EXPEDITION PHOTOGRAPHS (967 Photographs from the Oriental Institute's expedition to Iran in the 1930s) and THE 1905-1907 BREASTED EXPEDITIONS TO EGYPT AND THE SUDAN: A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY (1055 Photographs from Breasted's travels in Nubia during the years 1905-1907.
And for an up to date list of all Oriental Institute publications available online see
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
High-resolution recording: Ashurnasirpal II and Tutankhamun
Factum Foundation
Factum Foundation is a registered Foundation, established in 2009 and based in Spain, dedicated to the development and use of non-contact high-resolution digital recording as part of a coherent approach to the preservation, understanding and public exhibition of objects from our cultural heritage.
Advances in digital technology are dramatically and radically changing our understanding and appreciation of our shared cultural heritage. Science and technology are assisting art by providing forensically accurate information to both specialists and an interested public.
The foundation is dedicated to demonstrating that the way we understand the original object is part of a dynamic process and not a fixed state of being. When the dynamic nature of originality is successfully presented, works of art come alive - their complex biographies inform the present and influence the future. When viewed in this way they cease to be discrete objects to be viewed in museums and become complex subjects that can reveal their past (and also reveal how they have been valued and cared for by previous generations in diverse locations). Read more
Projects
Facsimile of the Tomb of Tutankhamun
2009-2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
The Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs
The Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs (NYPL Digital Gallery)
Several thousand prints and photographs contained in works from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. These include books illustrated with prints or photographs, photograph albums, and archival compilations; the processes represented range from engravings to lithographs, and from salt prints to heliogravures.
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