[KS] Korea-centric art image searches
kevin parks
kevin at macosx.com
Mon Jan 3 18:43:33 EST 2011
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.
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.
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:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
http://imageservice.cdlib.org/
http://camio.oclc.org/
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.
I am wondering if folks know some good image banks that have full
resolution images available for download.
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 /Source Materials for Korean
Musicology, Volume 36: Paintings of the Banquets During the Joseon
Dynasty/ (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.
Museums & galleries, as you might guess, are worse. The following images
are even smaller resolution here than they are in Artstor.
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/126707.html?mulR=30424
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/105996.html?mulR=5428
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.
Somewhat sheepishly,
Kevin Parks
University of Virginia, Music dept.
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