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I apologize in advance for what is likely a vague query but I am
almost certain that something of this type was posted on list long
ago and I know some people on this list have impressive research
chops.<br>
<br>
Many libraries and museums have databases of archived images,
digitized collections of photographs or prints, maps or paintings.
In some cases they are high resolution TIFFs and in some cases they
are scans of images for which the copyright has expired. Others have
restricted use or academic use and are noted or available in higher
resolutions.<br>
<br>
For example, a huge image archive can be found at the Library of
Congress and often at large research universities. A good example of
what I am looking for can be found here:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://imageservice.cdlib.org/">http://imageservice.cdlib.org/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://camio.oclc.org/">http://camio.oclc.org/</a><br>
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There is also Artstor which contains many images in various
resolutions but almost none of them are available for download in
full resolution. You can view them online in a web browser in high
resolution (in their clumsy web interface) but when you attempt to
download them they are saved in vastly reduced quality or cropped to
the zoom setting you have set on your browser window (you can't make
the window bigger). There are a small handful of very high
resolution images available for download that are marked "academic"
use. But there are not a lot of these in the areas I am searching. <br>
<br>
I am wondering if folks know some good image banks that have full
resolution images available for download.<br>
<br>
Most specifically I am interested in finding detailed high
resolution images of paintings of Joseon Dynasty Banquets, portraits
& maps such as one might find in the Minsokwon text <i>Source
Materials for Korean Musicology, Volume 36: Paintings of the
Banquets During the Joseon Dynasty</i> (ISBN 978-89-86252-85-9)
which I own. The problem is that these images (in real life) are
enormous and the book is quite small. If I wanted to zoom in to see
some detail (other than the details provided) you simply would not
have enough resolution. I have several other books that have such
images but am not able, in many case to get the detail I require
because the images are so small.<br>
<br>
Museums & galleries, as you might guess, are worse. The
following images are even smaller resolution here than they are in
Artstor.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/126707.html?mulR=30424">http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/126707.html?mulR=30424</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/105996.html?mulR=5428">http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/105996.html?mulR=5428</a><br>
<br>
Does anyone know any good sites for high resolution Korea-centric
images? Of course there is Flicker and Google and
image.search.naver.com, etc. which I am also grepping.<br>
<br>
Somewhat sheepishly,<br>
<br>
Kevin Parks<br>
University of Virginia, Music dept.
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