Latest Links Links | Retronaut - http://www.retronaut.com Retronaut: Photographic Time Capsules to browse, study & enjoy - [Read more] |
| Vivian Maier - http://www.vivianmaier.com Vivian Maier; Photographic archives of Urban America in the second half of the twentieth century. Taking snapshots into the late 1990′s, Maier would leave behind a body of work comprising over 100,000 negatives. Vivian’s passion for documenting extended to a series of homemade documentary films and audio recordings. The demolition of historic landmarks for new development, the unseen lives of ethnics and the destitute, as well as some of Chicago’s most cherished sites were all meticulously catalogued by Vivian Maier. Her photographic work reminds me of how little I see. - [Read more] |
| Brain Pickings - http://www.brainpickings.org Brain Pickings is a human-powered discovery engine for interestingness, a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why, bringing you things you didn’t know you were interested in — until you are: Photography - Culture - Design - Books - Innovation .......... - [Read more] |
| Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/ Open Culture brings together good quality cultural & educational media that is informative, enriching content for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Our mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it, including free books, movies, language lessons and other informative, enriching content - [Read more] |
| Wonderland Magazine - http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/ Wonderland Magazine: Photo Video images - Fashion - Film -Entertainment - Music - Leisure - [Read more] |
| Google Art - http://www.googleartproject.com/collections/ Google Art Project: Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels - [Read more] |
| The University of Sydney Macleay Collections - Australian Culture - http://sydney.edu.au/museums/collections/collections.shtml The University of Sydney has one of the largest and finest university collections of antiquities, art, ethnography, natural history and scientific instruments in Australia. While these collections are used for teaching, they also provide an opportunity for the University to contribute to the cultural life of the country museums and collections in the historic settings of the University of Sydney. The Macleay Museum, Nicholson Museum and University Art GalleryWe hold the oldest natural history collection in Australia, originating in the cabinets of Alexander Macleay
The Macleay Museum's Historic Photograph Collection contains approximately 50,000 images dating from the late 1840s to the 1960s. Collection Highlights One of the earliest surviving Australian daguerreotypes taken by J W Newland 1848. William Hetzer's albumen prints of Sydney c1860. 3000 Glass Plates of New South Wales by Charles Kerry & Co. Burns Philp and Company's photos of Papua and the Pacific. Baldwin Spencer's photos of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia in 1894. - [Read more] |
| Photography Museums - http://www.icp.org/research-center/library/professional-links/photography-museums Photography Museums Portal from "The International Center of Photography "(ICP) - [Read more] |
| The Plant List - http://www.theplantlist.org/ The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species produced as a collaborative venture coordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden and involving collaborators worldwide. The Plant List is a working list of known plant species - [Read more] |
| The British Library Photographic catalogues - http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/catblhold/all/photo/photo.html The British Library Photographic catalogues;
Photographs is a detailed searchable database for locating photographs, photographically-illustrated books and texts relating to photography held in all departments of the British Library.
The "India Office Select Materials" has records of India Office Private Papers, Prints and Drawings, and Photographs within the Library's Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections. The main focus is on South Asia, but there are also many records relevant to other parts of Asia and the Middle East. It includes drawings and prints and photographs.
The International "Dunhuang Project Catalogue of Silk Road Manuscripts" has records of over 30,000 manuscripts in the British Library and collections worldwide written in more than 15 languages and scripts from the eastern Silk Road, dating from the second century BC to the 12th century AD. The catalogue includes photographs.
"Photographically illustrated books" has details for 1,323 books and 15,274 photographs with titles and descriptions, and 320 digital images of original photographs - from 1839 to 1914. - [Read more] |
| Spitalfields Life at The Heart of London's East End - http://www.spitalfieldslife.com Spitalfields Life; Today's Samuel Pepys diary. East End life. The characters, The imagery, Historic hidden photographic gems.
"My Promise ; Over the coming days, weeks, months and years, I am going to write every single day and tell you about life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London. How can I ever describe the exuberant richness and multiplicity of culture in this place to you?
This is both my task and my delight.
Let me disclose to you the hare-brained ambition I am pursuing, which is to write at least ten thousand stories about Spitalfields life. At the rate of one a day, this will take approximately twenty-seven years and four months. Who knows what kind of life we shall be living in 2037 when I write my ten thousandth post?" - [Read more] |
| Spitalfields Life at The Heart of London / Blog - Diary - http://spitalfieldslife.com Spitalfields Life London (UK) East End. The benchmark for all to replicate, today's Samuel Pepys diary. real life characters, great imagery.
"My Promise ; Over the coming days, weeks, months and years, I am going to write every single day and tell you about life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London. How can I ever describe the exuberant richness and multiplicity of culture in this place to you?
This is both my task and my delight. - [Read more] |
| Reuters Pictures - http://www.pictures.reuters.com/ Reuters Pictures : Real Time News, Life, Sport, Entertainment & Fashion. Over 2,200 Reuters journalists report from every corner of the globe, bringing you fast, accurate, objective and comprehensive coverage of important international and domestic news in multiple languages - [Read more] |
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