Archive for the ‘ Cultural Heritage ’ Category
While conducting an inventory of the AGO‘s Eisenstaedt prints the other day, I was reminded about how much I enjoy his photography and the influence he had in American popular culture through his iconic Life Magazine images. The first time I really began to appreciate Eisenstaedt’s body of work was at the AGO’s Ansel Adams/ Alfred Eisenstaedt show, [ READ MORE ]
Clicking up the pieces. I’ve been meaning to post a link to this Times of India article, written last summer. The article discusses the current situation of the Bourne and Shepherd studio, the oldest photography studio in the world, and still in operation. A fire tore through the inventory of negatives in 1991, and the [ READ MORE ]
Interesting research project involving the use of emerging digital technologies to reanimate ethnographic items in museum collections. http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/reanimatingculturalheritage/index.php[ READ MORE ]
An interesting article from the Smithsonian on what might be one of the earliest examples of colour photography: A 160-Year-Old Photographic Mystery[ READ MORE ]
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