Diary of the book-lover ; november 3.. on Flickr - Photo Sharing! on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/174839/via/_Stairwaytoheaven
Hearted from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jelens/3000181676/
l love this photo almost as much I love that the original poster credited its source! Metadata is magic.
Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran is a fantastic online exhibit in English and Arabic related to women’s experiences during the Qajar period (1796-1925). The collections in the exhibit include art, photographs, marriage contracts, letters, and more.
If you follow the link above, you will find that the artist’s blog is credited and that the post is tagged with “manipulation.” The above images are manipulations of nineteenth-century photographs created by Jamie Vesta. I had seen the couple picture before and am now disappointed that someone removed it from its original context as a digitally-manipulated work in order to present it as real. Thanks to Emily for guiding me to the original artist’s work.
This post hearkens back to an earlier post about the issue of presenting a caption on a historical photograph as real. It’s always important to follow up on citations, credit sources, and question the validity of the information we are given.
“Clifton College boys helping to move the library during the war.” Bristol, World War II (by brizzle born and bred)
How Do You Look is a really stunning website from the Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art that integrates an intuitive visual literacy instructional tool with images from the museum’s collection, as well as subject resources contributed by Duke librarians. The instructional prompts can be organized by frameworks, media, or periods/cultures. This website really concretely demonstrates how necessary visual literacy skills are by illustrating the kinds of prompts that push students to think critically about images and that critical analysis of images involves going beyond their content and into their context.
Do you feel a gnawing guilt over all the spines you’ve cracked, all the pages you’ve dog-eared? Oh, the books that have suffered for your love!
Now you can assuage your conscience with the Adopt-A-Book program from the Smithsonian Libraries. Through the program, you can choose a damaged or deteriorating book and provide for its conservation. Don’t you want to preserve that old book smell for the ages?
“Botany Herbarium specimens stacked in cabinets and on tables.”
(Via The Field Museum Library)
GAH! This is so cool too. I’m freaking out right now.
From the site:
What do you get when you cross archives and artifacts with timelines, modern and historical maps, and an appreciation for the interpretive aims of humanities scholarship?
Neatline is a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps and narrative sequences from collections of archives and artifacts, and to connect your maps and narratives with timelines that are more-than-usually sensitive to ambiguity and nuance. In other words, Neatline lets you make hand-crafted, interactive stories as interpretive expressions of an archival or cultural heritage collection. Every Neatline exhibit is your contribution to humanities scholarship, in the visual vernacular.
“In the early eighties, rare book librarian John Rathe pulled down a dusty box, wrapped in twine, from a remote corner of the Rare Book room. Attached to the box was a label that said: ‘Do not open until war is over.’ Which war? The Civil War? The War of 1812? What he discovered was a box filled with disguised anti-Nazi tracts hidden in packets of tea and shampoo and concealed in miniature books both popular and scholarly.”
Did I already reblog this? Oh, well. Worth it.
