Digitization: George Eastman House is the First Photography Museum to Join Google Art Project, 50 Images Now Online

From the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY:

Eastman House, the world’s oldest museum of photography, is the first museum of photography to be selected for inclusion in the Google Art Project. The resolution of the images combined with a custom-built zoom viewer allows users the ability to discover details never before seen. In addition Eastman House has included all available cataloging data, allowing viewers access to information not previously available online.
The initial group of 50 Eastman House photographs on Google Art Project spans the 1840s through the late 20^thcentury and a wide variety of photographic processes from the 174 years of the medium’s existence are represented. The variety of subjects featured include Frida Kahlo, Martin Luther King Jr., the first train wreck ever photographed, the Lincoln conspirators, the Egyptian pyramids and Sphinx in the 1850s, and a portrait of photo pioneer Daguerre.
The list of masters include William Henry Fox Talbot, Hill & Adamson, Southworth & Hawes, Timothy O’Sullivan, Mathew Brady, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, William Henry Jackson, Edward S. Curtis, Gertrude Kasebier, Eugene Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis W. Hine, Dorothea Lange, Nickolas Muray, and Benedict J. Fernandez. Eastman House will continually add to its Google Art Project galleries.

Direct to Eastman House Items on Google Art Project
See Also: Eastman House Photo Stream on Flickr
See Also:  George Eastman House Image Digitization Project Will Crowdsource Tagging/Cataloging (August 11, 2011)

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