Posted in Image Collections, News, Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2014
More than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art may now be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use – including in scholarly publications in any media – without permission from the Museum and without a fee. The number of available images will increase as new […]
Posted in Image Collections, News on Mar 29th, 2012
The National Gallery of Art has implemented an open access policy for digital images of works of art that the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. More than 20,000 high resolution digital images are now available free of charge for download and use through the NGA Images website. For classroom presentation use, click […]
Creative Commons has announced its release of the Public Domain Mark (PDM) which will make it easier distinguish works that are free of known copyright. From the Creative Commons website: “Our Public Domain Mark enables works that are no longer restricted by copyright to be marked as such in a standard and simple way, making […]
Posted in Just for Fun, News, Photography on Jul 26th, 2010
The very last roll of Kodachrome film was processed at Dwayne’s Photo Service in Parsons, Kansas last week. Dwayne’s is the only photo lab left in world to handle Kodachrome processing. Freelance photojournalist Steve McCurry (National Geographic) asked Kodak if he could shoot the last roll of 35mm film it manufactured, which he used to […]
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