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Exploring Image Collections on the Internet:

Index

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Categories of online image collections

A Selection of Image Collections by Selected Subjects

Categories of online image collections:

Educational Institutions | Fine Arts Libraries | Architects & Artists | Electronic Journals | Computer Animations | Virtual Exhibits | Commercial Sites

• EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

  • Digital images for study/review
    • AcIS Imaging: Digital Image Access Project/PhotoCD Images, Columbia University
    • Images from the Visual Arts Library, Monash University
    • Kidder Smith Images of American Architecture, MIT, Rotch Visual Collections
    • Prof. Westfall's Renaissance & Baroque Architecture, Univ. of Virginia
    • Art History Site at San Jose State University, San Jose State Univ.

  • Digital image collections for study/review with searchable interface.
    • ArtServe: Art & Architecture, Australian National University
    • EqIIS, Earthquake Image Information System
      More than 5,000 images retrievable via searchable database.
    • SILS Architectural Image Browser School of Information and Library Studies, Univ. of Michigan
    • Northwestern University Library, Special Collections: The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871.
    • SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library Visual Online Catalog, Univ. of Calif.@Berkeley

  • Art education: student work & instruction
    • CAVS, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT
      Faculty & student work.
    • MESL, Museum Educational Site Licensing, Project
    • MESL, Univ. of Virginia Image Collections
    • Perseus Project, Tufts UniversitySearchable databases (architecture, sites, coins, & vases).
    • The Piero Project/ECIT - Electronic Compendium of Images and Text, Princeton Univ.
    • School of Architecture Property and Planning, Univ. of Auckland
    • Quick Thumbnail Guide to all the Best Work, Digital Design Lab: Virtual World Classroom,Columbia Univ., Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  • Educational institutions' collections
    • Architectural Archives, Univ. of Pennsylvania
    • Arise and Build! Special Collections Dept., Library, Univ. of Virginia
    • Oxford Photographs, Oxford University.
      Photos, inc. historical & aerial; virtual tours with clickable maps and "active map" photographs.
    • Stuart Collection of Sculpture, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
    • Women Artists Archive, Sonoma State University

• FINE ARTS LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS & SOCIETIES: collections & tours

  • Starting Points
    • Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources on the Web, The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
  • Yahoo, Arts: Museums, Galleries, and Centers

• Selected libraries, museums and societies worldwide
  • American Memory, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
  • Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi
    Includes several image collections: Vatican City; Sistine Chapel; Raphael Stanze and Loggia; the Vatican Museums and others.
  • The Daguerreian Society
  • High Musuem of Art,Atlanta, Georgia
  • Louvre, Musee du Louvre
  • New York Public Library, Photograph Collections
    Includes two online exhibits: Berenice Abbottt Changing New York: 1935-1938 and Lewis W. Hine, Construction of the Empire State Building: 1930-31.
  • Smithsonian Photographs Online, Smithsonian Institution
  • Welcome to NMAA, National Museum of American Art
  • Whitney Museum

• ARCHITECTS & ARTISTS on the NET

  • Starting Points
    • Architecture and Planning Firms, Dan Tasman.
    • Art Site on the World Wide Web, Margaret L. McLaughlin
    • Artists' Projects, ArtSource
    • ArtNet-The Art World Network
    • The Varo Registry: The Women Artists Online Resource
  • Collections of artwork
    • Exhibition & Gallery collections
      • Arise and Build! Special Collections Dept., Library, Univ. of Virginia
      • Art on the Net Artists exhibiting works.
      • The ArtMetal Project Metals as an artform.
      • List Visual Arts Center, MIT
      • MIT Museum: Architecture Exhibitions
      • Photographs of the American West: 1861-1912, National Archives, Still Picture Branch
      • SOFA, Sculpture Objects Functional Art
      • Video Spaces: Eight Installations, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art

    • Single architect/artist
      • Ansel Adams
      • Cezanne, Paul WebMuseum, Paris
      • Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Frank Lloyd Wright Heritage Association
        Still images and video of eight FLW buildings in Wisconsin.
      • Georges Seurat Homepage, Dan Birmbaum
      • Wrapped Reichstag, Christo and Jeanne-Claude

    • Searchable collections
      • Photo Perspectives, A Museum for the Photographic Examination of Contemporary Society and Culture
    • Web-based art
      • Kaleidospace: Independent Internet Artists
      • OTIS, Operative Term is Stimulate
        Place for image-makers and image-lovers;collection of images and information accessible mainly via Internet open for public perusal and participation.
      • Postcards, MIT, Media Lab
        Interactive exhibit.

• ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

  • PLAN, MIT, School of Architecture and Planning
    Select "Announcements and What's New," then "PLAN."
  • SITES Architecture OnLine

• COMPUTER ANIMATIONS, LIVE PICTURES & VIDEO

  • Amazing Fish Cam! Netscape Continuously refreshing fish cam features a picture per minute taken in SGI RGB image format and transformed into a GIF and a JPEG image for fast access by viewers.
  • DESIGN architecture This Web site presents recent work of various architects and designers in still photographs, audio, video, animation, VRML and other cool stuff.
  • KPIX Nob Hill Camera
    Scene from this famous San Franciso site is automatically updated every 5 mins. from KPIX'S camera mounted on the Fairmount Hotel. Includes timelaps animations.
  • The Middle Passage Project, MIT, School of Architecture and Planning
    Animations and virtual camera.

• VIRTUAL EXHIBITS & TOURS

  • Edgerton Virtual Gallery
  • MIT Floorplans, MIT, IHTFP
    Searchable database & building floorplans.
  • MIT, New Electronic Studios and Conference Room with Frank Stella painting,MIT, School of Architecture and Planning
  • Paris, Office of Tourisme de Paris.
  • Virtual Study Tours, School of Architecture Property and Planning, Univ. of Auckland
  • Virtual Town City Limits, Univ. of Calif./Davis

• COMMERCIAL SITES

  • Black Star Photo & Web Resources Stock photography.
  • ERIM, Environmental Research Instutute of Michigan
    Private, non-profit, high-technology organization. Aerial images.
  • Kodak: World Leader in Imaging Selection of high-resolution images.
  • NAR, Nation-Wide Home Search,National Association of Realtors
    Searchable database of real estate listings with images and clickable map interface.
  • Saskia Cultural Documentation, Ltd. Commercial slide vendor.
  • TIMELIFE Photo Gallery