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Dear colleagues, The staff of the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) at Dumbarton Oaks would like to share with you a new online exhibit (details below). Please let us know what you think - we would be grateful for any feedback or additional information. With best wishes for the holidays! Shalimar _____________________________________________ Shalimar Abigail Fojas White Manager, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1703 32nd Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Tel. 202.339.6972; Email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> From: Varinlioglu, Gunder Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:02 AM To: ALL Subject: ICFA's new online exhibit (and article): The Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) of Dumbarton Oaks invites you to visit our new online exhibit: The Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection icfa.doaks.org/collections/artamonoff/<http://icfa.doaks.org/collections/artamonoff/> This collection includes 543 black&white photographs taken in Istanbul and five archaeological sites in Western Turkey (Ephesus, Hierapolis, Laodicea on the Lycus, Pergamum, Priene) from 1935 to 1945. They are the work of Nicholas V. Artamonoff (1908-1989), who was an amateur photographer from Istanbul. His exquisite photographs show buildings, sites, and objects that no longer exist or are in a better state of preservation than today. As Ernst Kitzinger (a former director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks) informed Artamonoff himself in a letter of December 13, 1962, the collection has "great documentary value [...] because of the subsequent vicissitudes that have befallen some of the monuments concerned." Since their acquisition in 1962, Artamonoff's photographs have been used in the research and publications of many scholars. In January 2011, the Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection was revisited by ICFA's Byzantine Assistant Curator Günder Varinlioğlu and intern Alyssa DesRochers, who have since then conducted extensive research about Nicholas V. Artamonoff and his photography. The initial products of this ongoing project are the online exhibit and the article entitled, "Through the Lens: Nicholas V. Artamonoff and his 25 Years at Robert College," which has recently been published in Robert College Quarterly 41(2011), pp.42-43 (http://portal.robcol.k12.tr/Default.aspx?pgID=326). The online exhibit includes all 543 photos divided into groups by site or building. They can be browsed individually<http://icfa.doaks.org/collections/artamonoff/items>, by site<http://icfa.doaks.org/collections/artamonoff/collections>, map location<http://icfa.doaks.org/collections/artamonoff/items/map>, or descriptive keywords<http://icfa.doaks.org/collections/artamonoff/items/tags> (tags). The website also includes information about the photographer, whose fascinating life has been the object of investigations in the US, Turkey, and Belgium. The project to research and share Artamonoff's life and photographs continues, and any comments or questions are welcomed and appreciated. Please contact us at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~