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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases 400,000 Images Online for Non-Commercial Use
Kinder in einem Feriendorf / Martin Munkacsi / 1929 Daughters of Jerusalem / Julia Margaret Camero / 1865 Head of Man with Hat and Cigar / Leon Levinstein / 1960 Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern / Robert Howlett / 1857 A Study, No. 1 / Rudolph Eickemeyer / 1901 Street Minstrel, Gose / Shinichi Suzuki / 1870s Group of Thirteen Decapitated Soldiers / Unknown / 1910 Sincerely Yours, Woodrow Wilson / Arthur S. A Girl, Carmel / Johan Hagemeyer / 1930.
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The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix
Earlier this week, Oxford's Bodleian Library announced that it had digitized a 550 year old copy of the Gutenberg Bible along with a number of other ancient bibles, some of them quite beautiful. Not to be outdone, the British Library came out with its own announcement on Thursday: We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain. The librarians behind the project freely admit that they don't exactly have a great handle on the images in the collection. You can jump into the entire collection here, or view a set of highlights here. To learn more about this British Library initiative, read this other Open Culture post which takes a deeper dive into the image collection. Related Content:
9 Places to Find Creative Commons & Public Domain Images
When students create multimedia projects they might be tempted to simply do a Google Images search and use the first images they see. But as educators we have a responsibility to teach students to respect copyright holders' rights. One of the ways that we can do that is to teach students to use Creative Commons and Public Domain images. Morgue File provides free photos with license to remix. Wylio is an image search engine designed to help bloggers and others quickly find, cite, and use Creative Commons licensed images. William Vann's EduPic Graphical Resource provides free photographs and drawings for teachers and students to use in their classrooms. The World Images Kiosk hosted by San Jose State Universityoffers more than 75,000 images that teachers and students can use in their academic projects. ImageBase is a personal project of professional photographer David Niblack. Photos 8 is a great place to find thousands of images that are in the public domain.
Download 448 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering “five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.” If that strikes you as an obvious choice, prepare to spend some serious time browsing MetPublications’ collection of free art books and catalogs. You may remember that we featured the site a few years ago, back when it offered 397 whole books free for the reading, including American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915; Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library; and Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Related Content: Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online
In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” Susan Sontag wrote in her seminal 1977 book “On Photography.” This was something I thought about when I recently read that Google was making its one-hundred-and-forty-nine-dollar photo-editing suite, the Google Nik Collection, free. This photo-editing software is as beloved among photographers as, say, Katz’s Deli is among those who dream of pastrami sandwiches. Before Google bought it, in 2012, the collection cost five hundred dollars. It is made up of seven pieces of specialized software that, when used in combination with other photo-editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom, give photographers a level of control akin to that once found in the darkroom. They can mimic old film stock, add analog photo effects, or turn color shots into black-and-white photos. My guess is that it wants to kill the software, but it doesn’t want the P.R. nightmare that would follow.
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44000 oeuvres picturales et de sculpture en accès libre et en haute résolution
L’institut d’Art de Chicago propose en accès totalement libre 44000 œuvres d’art de très grande qualité, scannées en très haute résolution. On peut ainsi zoomer sur les détails de texture sur des statues antiques ou observer la finesse des textures dans night hawks d’Edward Hopper. Les images s’accompagnent de nombreuses informations annexes comme des indications sur la provenance et l’historique d’exposition, des éléments audio et vidéo de description, et aussi différents types de ressources pédagogiques dans lesquelles ces oeuvres ont été utilisées. Ces 44312 oeuvres dont le catalogue en ligne continue d’ailleurs de s’étoffer sont disponibles sur le site de l’Institut.
