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A Selection of Image Collections by Selected Subjects

A Selection of Image Collections: Organized by Selected Subjects

Anthropology & Archaeology | Architecture | Art | Building Technology | Environmental Design | Islamic Art & Architecture | Landscape Architecture | Photography | Urban Design & Planning

ANTHROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY

• Ancient City of Athens, Kevin T. Glowacki and Nancy L. Klein, Dept. of Classical Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington Photographic archive of archaeological and architectural reamins of ancient Athens providing a "virtual tour" of the chief excavated regions and extant monuments.

• Ancient World Web: Meta Index, Julia Hayden Extensive index updated every Saturday, includes subject and geographic indexes.

• Art History Site at San Jose State University, San Jose State UniversityFeatures images from 300+ sites worldwide, including Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania.

• ArchNet, Virtual Library - Archaeology, Univ. of Connecticut

• MegaLithic!: Prehistoric Ritual Monuments within the British Isles, Roger Martlew and Clive Ruggles, Leicester University Accessible via Artserve at Australia National University.

• Mercury Project: Robotic Tele-Excavation, USC, Univ. of Southern California

• Perseus Project, Tufts UniversitySearchable databases (architecture, sites, coins, & vases).

ARCHITECTURE

• Acanthus Virtual Gallery, Univ. of Manitoba; Univ. of Calgary

• AcIS Imaging, Digital Image Access Project/Photo CD Images, Avery Architecture Library, Columbia Univ.
  Selections from the collection (Notre-Dame Cathedral of Amiens, Empire State Building, etc.)and the AVIADOR videodisc project.

• Architecture and Building: Net Resources January 1996, Jeanne M. Brown, Univ. of Nevada
  Covers primarily architecture, building, construction and AEC sites; also, but to a lesser extent: design, real estate, housing, urban, energy and environment.

• Architecture & Urban Design, UCLA Dept. of Architecture and Urban Design Includes several student projects using computer simulations and VRML modeling.

• Architecture Virtual Library, University of Toronto
  Search on term "images" to pull up relevant Web pages.

• ArtServe: Art & Architecture, Australian National University

• d-c quarterly, Architecture firm: Dogl cherkoori.
  Based in Vienna, Aus., features materials from their key Austrian design, architecture and real-estate projects.

• Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Frank Lloyd Wright Heritage Association
  Still images and video of eight FLW buildings in Wisconsin.

• Images from the Visual Arts Library,Monash University

• The Imperial Shrine of Ise,
  Computer animated tour of shrine largely closed to the public.

• Kidder Smith Images of American Architecture, MIT, Rotch Visual Collections

• The Middle Passage Project, MIT, School of Architecture and Planning
  Animations; virtual camera.

• MIT, Conference Room with Frank Stella Painting, MIT, School of Architecture and Planning

• MIT Museum: Architecture Exhibitions, MIT Museum

• MIT Studio of the Future, MIT, School of Architecture and Planning

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

• PAIRC, Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center, Dan Tasman.

• Prof. Westfall's Renaissance & Baroque Architecture, Univ. of Virginia

• SILS, Architectural Image Browser,School of Information and Library Studies, Univ. of Michigan

• SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library Visual Online Catalog, Univ. of Calif./Berkeley

• Virtual Study Tours,School of Architecture Property and Planning, Univ.of Auckland

ART

• Art History Site at San Jose State University, San Jose State UniversityFeatures images from 300 sites worldwide, including Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania.

• ArtMetal Gallery

• ArtNetWeb

• Art on the Net

• ArtServe: Art & Architecture, Australian National University

• ArtSource: Image Collections

• The ArtVark Gallery
  Amsterdam-based site supporting paintings, objects, computer images, drawings, photographs & free applied art.

• CAVS, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, CAVS
  Faculty & student work.

• Cezanne, Paul, WebMuseum, Paris

• FineArt Forum Directory of Online Art Resources, FineArt Forum journal.

• Georges Seurat Homepage, Dan Birmbaum

• History of Art, Art History & computer applications in Art History

• Images from the Visual Arts Library, Monash University

• Internet ArtResources, Ferguson/Taylor Group, Inc.
  Created with the fine arts collector/admirer in mind. Many image collections.

• List Visual Arts Center, MIT, List Visual Arts Center

• The Piero Project/ECIT - Electronic Compendium of Images and Text, Princeton Univ.

• Saskia Cultural Documentation, Ltd
  Commercial slide vendor.

• SITES Architecture OnLine

• SOFA - Sculpture Objects Functional Art

• Stuart Collection of Sculpture, Univ. of Calif., San Diego

• The Varo Registry: The Women Artists Online ResourceSearchable database or registry.

• Video Spaces: Eight Installations, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art

• WebMuseum
  Exhibits of mostly Western European artwork, mostly paintings.

• Famous Paintings exhibition,WebMuseum, Paris
  Paintings collection - text & images organized by style w artist index & glossary.

• Whitney Museum: Artists' WWW Projects.

• Women Artists Archive, Sonoma State University

• The Work of M. C. Esher

• Wrapped Reichstag, Christo and Jeanne-Claude

• Yahoo: Arts, Net Directory

BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

• EqIIS, Earthquake Image Information System
  More than 5,000 images retrievable via searchable database.

• The Home Front: Internet Reference Guide for the Professional Home Builder.

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

• CGDM, Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing, Univ. of Calif./Berkeley

• ERIM, Environmental Research Instutute of Michigan
  Private, non-profit, high-technology organization. Aerial images.

• GNET, Global Environment & Technology Foundation Searchable, ex. "design, images."

ISLAMIC ART & ARCHITECTURE

• Architecture of Islam

• Iranian Cultural and Information Center

• METU, Middle East Technical UniversityImages of Turkish architecture and planning.

• Dome of the Rock, Said Nuseibeh

• Welcome to Isfahan Australian National University

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

• Gardens and Landscape Design, Visual Arts Library, Monash Univ.

• Landscape Architecture Virtual Library

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Alfred Eisenstaedt--LIFE Magazine Remembers Eisie, Time Life
  Includes online gallery of all LIFE magazine covers featuring Eisenstaedt's photographs.

• American Memory's Photographs--Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress
  Features Carl Van Vechten Photographs, Civil War photographs, Detroit Publishing Co. photographs and Farm Security and Office of War Information photographs.

• Ansel Adams: Fiat LuxNow also includes sound files of Adams discussing selected works.

• Black Star: Photo & Web Resources

• California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.

• The Daguerreian SocietyThis page includes links to four galleries of images of daguerreotypes.

• Electronic Photo Gallery: Hot Pictures Works by contemporary Russian photographers.

• George Eastman House--Timeline of Photography Timeline exhibit features images of various photographic processes and early photographic equipment.

• Kodak: World Leader in Imaging Includes high-resolution digital images.

• 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.

• 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.

• Northwestern University: The Siege and Commune of Paris: 1870-1871, Northwestern University Library, Special CollectionsThis page allows users to search or browse 1,200 images.

• Oxford Photographs, Oxford University.
  Photos, inc. historical & aerial; virtual tours w/clickable maps and "active map" photos.

• Photo Exhibitions and Archives, Bengt Hollinger, Linkoping University, Sweden Extensive list of WWW pages, many of which include images.

• Photo Perspectives
  A Museum for the Photographic Examination of Contemporary Society and Culture.

• Photographs of the American West: 1861-1912, National Archives, Still Picture Branch

• Photon: The Art & Science of Light Electronic journal of photography.

• Secrets of the Dark Chamber: the Art of the American Daguerreotype, National Museum of American Art
  Online version of exhibit of the same title held June 30 - Oct. 22, 1995.

• Smithsonian Photographs Online, Smithsonian Institution, Off. of Printing & Photographic Services

• Time Life Photo Sight Selected images from extensive archives from this commercial publisher.

• Yahoo, Art:Photography

URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING

• City of Bits, MIT Press.
  Online version of William Mitchell's latest book, the first such project at the MIT Press.

• Planning Bureau, City of Portland, Oregon Quarter Section Maps
  From Table of Contents, choose Quarter Section Maps to find clickable map interface to maps.

• Living Cities Group, Section "Advocacy Projects" includes links to CADD designs for Residential Properties, Roadways--Local, and Roadways--Arterial.

• Map-Related Web Sites Univ. of Texas at Austin
  Compilation includes: electronic cartographic reference resources; sites covering general maps; country maps; state maps; city maps and weather maps.

• MIT-AUB Project, MIT, School of Architecture and Planning & American University of Beirut
  Planning project with GIS tools, graphics, data, models, maps, satellite images, etc.

• NCPC Site Planning Aid & Context Map,MIT, Computer Resource Lab
  Aerial Map of Monumental Core Area, Wash., DC, with clickable map interface and aerial images with levels of detail.

• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas, Austin

• U.S. Census Bureau Data Maps
  Collection of Tiger maps uses a clickable map of the U.S. with access by state, then county, and provides zoom detail capability.

• Virtual Town City Limits, Univ. of Calif./Davis