Photography Online
Saw this in the NYTimes today:
Two proud powerhouses of photography—the George Eastman House in Rochester and the International Center of Photography in Midtown—are at work on an ambitious project to create one of the largest freely accessible databases of masterwork photography anywhere on the Web. The Web site—Photomuse.org, now active only as a test site, with a smattering of images—is expected to include almost 200,000 photographs when it is completed in the fall of 2006. Photomuse site will join others, like the digital collections of the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, England, that are beginning to create what amounts to a huge, free, virtual photography museum on the Web.
Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/arts/design/20east.html
Two proud powerhouses of photography—the George Eastman House in Rochester and the International Center of Photography in Midtown—are at work on an ambitious project to create one of the largest freely accessible databases of masterwork photography anywhere on the Web. The Web site—Photomuse.org, now active only as a test site, with a smattering of images—is expected to include almost 200,000 photographs when it is completed in the fall of 2006. Photomuse site will join others, like the digital collections of the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, England, that are beginning to create what amounts to a huge, free, virtual photography museum on the Web.
Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/arts/design/20east.html
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