If you've never been to Cincinnati, this website might lead you to take a trip to this corner of southern Ohio. The holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum span the globe and a variety of artistic traditions, and their site functions as a healthy sampling of what's offered currently and in the future. A good place to start is the "Collections" area. With grants from the Institute of Museum and...
From Carthage to Chicago, this fascinating digital collection from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee presents quite a cornucopia of photographic images drawn from the world's cities, past and present. The images are from the American Geographic Society Library, and just two photographers, Harrison Forman and the noted urban geographer, Harold Mayer, took the pictures. All told, there are over...
Clement Moran became fascinated with photographs as a young man, though he came to New Hampshire College (now the University of New Hampshire) in 1914 to teach physics. Over a period of 70 years, he documented the changes around the campus in Durham, and also served as the institution's first official university photographer. His massive archive is housed at the university's library and this...
Conscientious Photography Magazine is published and edited by Joerg Colberg and is the follow-up to his award-winning photography website Conscientious that went online in 2002. Photobooks are a major topic on Conscientious Photography Magazine: a recent post from March 5, 2018, discusses exhibition catalogs as a photobook genre. There are regular reviews of new photobooks, singly and in small...
Using volunteer help and a locally written image management system, the Waterford County Museum in Ireland has created this collection of close to 3,000 historical images that document Waterford County and its parishes from the late 1890s to the present. The Web interface to the collection includes a number of helpful features - for those familiar with Waterford county and its place and family...
Sarah Meister, photography curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), teaches this six-week Coursera course, Seeing Through Photographs. Drawing from MOMA's rich collection of photographs, this course "aims to address the gap between seeing and truly understanding photographs by introducing a diversity of ideas, approaches, and technologies that inform their making." Designed for any member of...
The Credo online repository contains over 40,000 items held by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries' Department of Special Collections and University Archives. During the launch of Credo in June 2011, the organizers digitized and released the complete papers of noted African American intellectual and activist W.E.B. Du Bois. This project was made possible with support from the Verizon...
MoMA presents this web site on the style of art known as Dada to accompany an in situ exhibition at the museum. One of the main components of the site is a selection of Dada art from the museum's permanent collection, with works by artists such as Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, and Jean Arp. There are some interactive features as well - visitors can make a Dadaist poem, by...
Readers interested in early photography may enjoy Daguerreobase, where visitors can explore more than 16,000 daguerreotypes held by museums and in private collections all over Europe. This vast database can be searched by keyword and filtered by fields such as date and name of the specific collection where the daguerreotypes are held, such as Det Nationale Fotomuseum in Denmark. Readers may also...
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