Archive for the ‘Multimedia-Photos’ Category.
24th November 2007, 04:05 pm
Flickr, Yahoo’s photo site, has recently announced a new feature: Flickr Places.
The ability to geotag photos has been available for a while now — well over a year. This new offering allows users to browse photos by place. According to the announcement over 30 million photos have been tagged! Flickr Places starts at http://flickr.com/places/ . You can explore some maps that are provided by Flickr or you can do a search. Searching for Hollywood, for example, gave me several options including Hollywood California and Hollywood Florida. I looked at Hollywood California and got, pictures of Hollywood… Maryland? Not quite what I was looking for. When I searched directly for Hollywood California, I still got Maryland photos.
I tried again, this time for Benin. This time it worked! I got a map of Benin, suggestions for other places, and an assortment of photographs. (You can list them by their interesting factor, or by the date they were added.) There were featured photographers related to Benin, groups related to Benin, and a search box that will search just those photographs that are geotagged for Benin. There are also popular tags related to photographs taken in Benin.
To get to the photo pages, click on the photos themselves. What a great way to explore. I would come here first if I was planning to go somewhere and wanted to get a sense of what that place was like.
22nd November 2007, 10:31 pm
The George Eastman House, home of the world’s oldest photography museum, has announced that it is developing a wiki for documenting the photographic process. This new wiki is being aimed for use by collectors, curators, archivists, and conservators.
The wiki, which owes its creation to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will include information on cameras, chemical processes, and other topics related to photography. What I found especially interesting is that the site will also facilitate a classification scheme for imaging materials. Criteria will include detail, type, condition, age, and process.
The wiki is expected to take up to two years to develop (you’ll pardon the pun) and once developed, is expected to be “closed”, with edits coming only from staff at the Eastman House and curators, scholars, and other experts.
While you’re waiting for the new Wiki, you can check out the Eastman house podcasts, view the digitized offerings, and take a virtual tour. (Don’t miss the samples from the Kodak advertising collection).
5th November 2007, 05:54 pm
Feeling nostalgic? There’s a great collection of historic photographs of Los Angeles (1920-1990) available at http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/ .
You can browse by subject (from Aaron Brothers to Zuma Canyon) or you can search by keyword. I browsed for Hollywood and got 37 results, which included thumbnails and covered subject as diverse as an Easter service at the Hollywood Bowl (1947) to Donald Duck getting his footprints at Mann’s Chinese Theater (1984) to Lawrence Welk signing autographs during his appearance at the Hollywood Palladium (1961).
Each search result has a larger version of the picture along with published caption, publication date and periodical where it was published. Visitors might also be interested to know that all the photographs I looked at were Creative Commons licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
