Visual Resources   Tags: art, art_history, digital_images, history of art, images, pictures, visual, visual_culture  

Balthazar Korab, one of the foremost photographers of architecture, died on January 15, 2013 at the age of 86. The archive of his work is housed in the Library of Congress. See examples of his work in the Library of Congress Digital Collections.

Collection Update: We have recently added Module 7 (6,000 images) to the Archivision Archive.  The complete Archive contains approximately 60,000 images

21st-century architecture in Beijing from Archivision

More than 370 publications from The Metropolitan Museum of Art are available for download in PDF format from The Museum's Web site.  This includes some of their most important exhibition catalogues, many out of print, such as The Age of Caravaggio (1985), American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915 (1994), and Eugène Cuvelier: Photographer in the Circle of Corot (1996). 

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture seeks ... to inform understandings of an expanding array of visual practices as they are reshaped within digital culture, while also creating scholarly contexts for the use of digital media in film, media and visual studies. (From their Web site)

Visual Resources Collection | Library Digital Collections | ARTstor | Oxford Art Online | JSTOR 

For off-campus access, Yale affiliates must use the VPN

The Yale Visual Resources Collection (VRC) manages collections of images related to global art, architecture and material culture to support teaching and research in the Arts and Humanities.  The VRC digital image collection contains more than 370,000 items.

This guide offers assistance to patrons looking for digital images for teaching, learning and research.  Resources restricted to current Yale affiliates are marked .  Resources are organized by art historical divisions and museum collections. These lists are not exhaustive but are intended to feature major image collections and a selection of specialized resources.  

Our analog collections include lantern slides, 35mm slides and photographs.  Collection level records are available in ORBIS and Finding Aids are availabe for larger collections.

Services
Yale faculty may order digital images from books and journals for teaching and research. Please contact Robert Carlucci, VRC Manager, for ordering procedures or visit our office in the Arts Library. There are also four self service scanners in the Arts Library.

Staff Contacts:

• Robert Carlucci, Manager
• Sarah Coe, Support Specialist for Collection Development and Cataloging
• Maria Zapata, Library Technical Assistant

Hours and Location

Monday-Friday 8:30am-5pm, Room 33, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, 180 York Street, New Haven, CT.

Acknowledgements

In addition to the VRC staff, Ian McDermott, former Assistant Librarian at the Center for British Art, and Hannah Bennett, former Assistant  Director for Collections and Research at the Haas Family Arts Library, contributed multiple resources to this image guide.