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Harvard’s History of Photography Timeline offers a view into the history of photography through selected photographs in the University’s libraries, museums, and archives. Viewers will be able to explore some of the highlights of Harvard’s rich photographic holdings, which document … Continue reading →

Dumbarton Oaks Acquires a New Collection of Images

“In the era of disembodied texts on Kindles, it’s easy to forget that books used to be created entirely by hand.1“ 1Scherer, B. L. (2016, Sep 13). ‘Beyond words: Illuminated manuscripts in boston collections’ review: A trove of beautiful books; … Continue reading →

MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group has an interesting list of projects (#vagueUnderstanding), including ones that allow cameras to see through surfaces and around corners. Ugh. They claim a goal of “Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and … Continue reading →

Stanford professor, Marc Levoy’s, course description: “An introduction to the scientific, artistic, and computing aspects of digital photography. Topics include lenses and optics, light and sensors, optical effects in nature, perspective and depth of field, sampling and noise, the camera … Continue reading →

“For the first time, you can peek inside the craft that enabled “one giant leap for mankind” FYI: The model is build from “3D data from 6 different sensors into one 3D model. 400GB+ of data compressed into a model … Continue reading →

Thank you, Todd!