Awesome! New: Comprehensive Online Database of Ansel Adams Photographs Goes Live
This is one superb database (and digitization effort) that will be interest and use to many. We can't wait to spend some serious time with it. The content--Ansel Adams photos--are simply amazing (understatement).
According to the Ansel Adams Gallery Blog, the database contains more then 2600 digitized images including several rare ones.
The database homepage begins with a brief bio of Ansel Adams and also includes info about copyright and the database itself.
The Ansel Adams Archive at the Center for Creative Photography includes more than 2,500 fine prints, along with correspondence, interviews, unpublished writings, memorabilia, publications, negatives, transparencies, work prints, photographic equipment, and files documenting his commercial projects, exhibitions, affiliation with the Sierra Club and Friends of Photography.
The Center provides digital scans and facilitates permissions in collaboration with The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, which holds copyright to all works by Ansel Adams. See http://www.creativephotography.org/rights/ for more information.
To browse and find images of Old Faithful we began with the letter "O" and found several. We also looked under the letter Y and found several more. So, if necessary try different letter/words. To view a large size image, click the small image found with every entry and if you're logged-in, it should appear in a matter of seconds. Yes, all of this takes a bit of guessing but on the way to finding the image you're looking for you'll come across material that's likely new to you. Serendipity still works. You'll also be "learning" the database that will over time help to make retrieval easier.
To search, look for the search box, upper right side on any page. Enter your search terms and go. Images do not contain subject descriptors (at this point) so you're primarily searching on words in the title of an image. Caveat. At this point you'll be searching other digitized imagery from the Center for Creative Photography. So, make sure you select the advanced interface. Here you can limit your search to only the Ansel Adams Collection.
Well done to those who have bult the database and then made it available on the Internet. We will monitor the Ansel Adams Blog for updates and new features.
Source: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Libraries (via Twitter)
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