Posted in Events, Photography, Staff Picks on Feb 8th, 2012
Join us tonight at the opening of Designed to Dance: Dance Ink Magazine 1989-1996, an exhibition curated by VRC staff member Debra Klein. Founded by Patsy Tarr in 1989, Dance Ink Magazine was an avant-garde, quarterly journal dedicated to contemporary dance. Pairing kinetic type with dynamic photography, art director Abbot Miller accomplished the difficult task […]
Posted in Image Collections, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture on Feb 7th, 2011
Art Project by Google offers some new methods for viewing and experiencing museum collections online, as well as a single portal to access multiple collections from one location. While certainly not comprehensive in scope, it allows users to access over 1,000 images from seventeen major art museums and collections including the Met, Uffizi, Hermitage and the Tate. For those of […]
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 […]
Posted in Photography, Printmaking on Jun 9th, 2010
The Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology has developed the Graphics Atlas, a new online resource that explores the history of printing technologies through text and images. The Atlas presents a virtual study collection that showcases printing processes from the early woodcut to the modern digital print. Each process is illustrated by […]
Posted in Image Collections, Photography, Tools on Apr 14th, 2010
commonsExplorer is an experimental, interactive browser for Flickr Commons that allows users to discover content based on word visualizations. For more information on how it works and to download the application go to: http://creative.canberra.edu.au/cex/ The Commons makes publicly-held photography collections available through Flickr. Participating institutions include the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Getty Research […]
ARTstor