Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce a new partnership between ARTstor and Susan
Silberberg-Peirce of Canyon Lights, long trusted as a leading provider of
high quality images for teaching, research and publication.
Max Marmor
ARTstor
Collaborative Agreement Reached Between Canyon Lights World Art Image Bank
and ARTstor
Canyon Lights World Art Image Bank and ARTstor announced today that they
had reached an agreement to collaborate on the digitization and
distribution through ARTstor of nearly 3,000 high quality digital images
from the rich Canyon Lights archive of original photography. As an art
historian and photographer, Susan Silberberg-Peirce of Canyon Lights has
been professionally documenting ancient sites – especially throughout the
Mediterranean region, as well as in Europe and the American Southwest – for
20 years. Her slides and photographs of Megalithic, Greek, Roman,
Byzantine, Medieval, and Southwest Native American sites are widely used in
teaching and research in universities and museums throughout America,
Canada, and Europe, and have frequently been published in reference books
and journals; many are also available as photographic prints. These images
will significantly enhance ARTstor’s value to teachers as well as
scholars.
As part of this collaboration, ARTstor will also sponsor a 2006
photographic campaign in the American Southwest, intended to help Canyon
Lights expand and deepen its already strong documentation of both
Prehistoric and Native American sites, especially thoughout New Mexico.
In reaching this agreement, Dr. Susan Silberberg-Peirce of Canyon Lights
and Max Marmor, ARTstor’s Director of Collection Development, expressed
their shared enthusiasm in collaborating to use digital technologies to
make these high quality images of art works, architectural monuments and
archeological sites more broadly available for noncommercial educational
and scholarly purposes. “As a scholar and professor, I am acutely aware of
the educational community's need for high quality images. As a
photographer, I am delighted to have the opportunity to share my
documentation with a wider audience through ARTstor's distinguished
portal,” comments Dr. Silberberg-Peirce. “Our new partnership with Canyon
Lights represents an important milestone in ARTstor's ongoing effort to
provide teachers, scholars and students with high-quality digital images,
especially images that document key archeological and architectural
monuments and sites. Susan Silberberg-Peirce’s images have been widely
used by teachers and scholars in slide form, and we are delighted to help
make them available now online as well,” adds Marmor. “We are especially
excited at the prospect of working with Canyon Lights in an ongoing way to
further develop both their already extraordinarily rich archives and
ARTstor’s growing library of digital art images.”
Canyon Lights (http://www.canyonlights.com/) has been, for many years, a
key source of high quality art images for teaching, research and
publication, with special strengths in the documentation of archeological
and architectural monuments and sites in the Mediterranean region
(Megalithic, Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Turkish sites), in Great Britain
(Megalithic and Medieval sites), and in the Southwestern United States
(both Prehistoric and Native American sites). In addition to its archive
of original slides and photographs, which is the focus of the present
collaboration, Canyon Lights also represents a number of European and
Australian museums and vendors.
ARTstor (www.artstor.org) was created in 2001 as a nonprofit initiative of
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and is now an independent non-profit
organization dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the arts and
the humanities. Currently, more than 540 non-profit institutions in the
U.S. and Canada are participating in ARTstor. A pilot distribution is
underway in the UK and Australia/New Zealand, and further international
availability is being actively explored.
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