Access MOMA’s Exhibition Photographs on ARTstor

Last week ARTstor added the last installment of MOMA’s exhibition photographs.  The 16,700 or so photographs document over 70 years’ worth of major exhibitions at the museum.  To find them, just go to the ARTstor website (and log in if you’re not on campus), then search “moma archive” plus any additional terms to narrow your results.

Graphics Atlas

I just read about this great tool, the Graphics Atlas, created by the Image Permanence Institute at Rochester University.  The Graphics Atlas allows you to view minute details of photographic prints produced using different techniques.  You can not only zoom in on the surface of an image to see the emulsion, you can also see the edge of the photo, view it under different lighting conditions (like UV), and compare views of two different processes.

(discovered via Deep Focus, from the UT Austin School of Architecture Visual Resources Collection.)