Slides and other media presenting
selected monuments of interest to art historians are
offered for sale to individuals and institutions. New
materials will be added as they come available. Slides
are sold by set only. The price of each set is determined
by multiplying $2.00us per slide times the number of
slides in each set. Minimum order is $25 in slides.
Orders must be paid in advance in United States funds and
must include $15 per domestic order and $20 per foreign
order to cover shipping and handling. Orders will be
shipped from four to six weeks after receipt of payment.
All sales are final except as specified under Warranties
and Representations below.
Interested individuals are encouraged
to send for a list of sets and for lists of slides
contained within sets. Lists can be sent via surface or
electronic mail.
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Barcelona,
Antonio Gaudi
Park Güell
(1900-14)
Viaduct Columns
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DATA
PRESENTED ON SLIDE LABEL AND DOCUMENTATION SHEETS:
Slides and images are provided in sets
composed of one or more images. Usually three types of
documentation are supplied with each slide: 1) An Image
Set Description sheet (green paper), 2) A Slide
Description Sheet (white paper) and 3) a slide label.
The Image Set Description:
(green sheets)
The Image Set Description sheet
provides basic information that is common to all slides
(or nearly all slides) in the set. It is composed of
information from several fields as described below:
Set Number:
A unique number that identifies the
set. Its sequence in relation to other set numbers is
meaningless.
Set Name:
A short unique term that characterizes
the subject of the set of images.
Location:
For in situ object this field is a
concatenated set of four fields that identifies the
following: Not every object will have data in each of the
listed fields.
1) The English name of the
country in which the object set existed at the
time of photography.
2) The English or local name of
the part of the country (or section) in which the
object set existed at the time of photography.
3) The English or local name of
the city, town or municipality in which the
object set existed at the time of photography.
4) The English or local name of
the district within the above-cited entity in
which the object set existed at the time of
photography.
For collected (movable) objects this
field identifies the location and name of the collection
in which the object resided at the time it was
photographed.
Start Date:
The date provided usually signifies a
beginning date of reference for the objects/structures
included in the set. Complex historical structures may
contain elements that precede the given date. The start
date field is followed to its right by an unnamed field
that provides opportunity to comment on the start date
given. Dates are often determined by acts of attribution
and are subject to eventual change.
End Date:
See Start Date:
Period/Style:
Only the most general terminology is
used to characterize the objects within a set. The
content of this field is ultimately determined by an act
of attribution and may be altered. It is provided as a
simple rough guide to users, not as an assertion of
attribution.
Associated Makers:
The contents of this field lists some
of the artists, architects, fabricators and other
individuals or corporate bodies who have been thought to
have played a role in the creation of the work
represented in the image set. Their exact roles and the
nature of the attribution are not stated. As of the
current writing, names are not authority controlled. Most
names will appear inverted, so that the most
characteristic identifier appears first. Names are
separated by semi-colons.
Description and Comments:
This area is divided into two sections.
The first describes or identifies the art-historical
significance of the monument or monuments included in the
set. Often short passages are quoted from major
references or guidebooks.
The second sections summarizes the
slides or images belonging to the set. Specific
descriptions may be found in the Slide/Image Description
(the white pages).
Slide/Image Description: (white
sheets)
The Slide/Image Description sheet
provides information that is specific to an individual
slide. It is composed of information from several fields:
Identification Number:
The id number takes the following
format: aaaa.bb.ccc.dd in which all characters are
numbers. Section a represents the year the photograph was
taken, b signifies the month. Section c identifies the
film item number (usually a roll), and d indicates the
frame number or unique number attached to the original.
Each id number is unique for each slide or image. When
corresponding, this number provides the easiest way to
locate an item. Some image collections will find the
photograph date useful to collect.
Record Number:
This is a unique number assigned by the
database used to keep track of images. It provides a
redundant means of citing individual photographs but
provides no information about the item cited. Its
sequence should not be construed as having any meaning.
Object Set Number:
Same as Set Number, above.
Object Set Name:
Same as Set Name, above.
Set Start Date:
Set End Date:
Same as Start Date and End Date above.
The information in these fields apply to the set in which
the object belongs, not necessarily to the object that is
the subject of the slide. Technical note: In order to
retain the proper formatting of the dates it was
necessary to insert a hyphen after the start and end
dates, i.e. 1995- These hyphens have no meaning.
Object Types:
Each object is characterized by one or
more broad classifying categories. Categories are
separated by semi-colons. The terms used roughly
correspond to categories cited in the Art and
Architecture Thesaurus but are not rigorously controlled
by that authority. The field from which this derives in
the cataloging database is multi-valued. It is possible
to list and sort each item by object type, even when more
than one object type has been cited per object.
Location:
Same as in Image Set Description,
above.
Associated Makers:
The contents of this field will often
be the same as the Associated Makers field in the Image
Set Description, above. In some instances, when it is
possible to attribute or specify a specific maker with
the subject of the slide or image, that name will appear
in this field rather than the list of names generally
associated with the set. Dates following the names of
makers are birth and death dates unless otherwise
specified.
Object Name:
The Object Name will often but not
always be a full name for the object that is the subject
of the set. If the set name is not deemed essential to
understand the object shown, the object name itself will
appear here. The object name is shown in bold italics.
View of Object:
The contents of this field will
identify some or all of the following:
1) the portion of the object
listed in the Object Name field,
2) the location or position of
the portion of the object with regards to the
object cited in the Object Name field,
3) the point of view of the
camera in its relation to the object cited in the
Object Name field,
4) the name of the maker
associated with a portion of the object
represented,
5) the date or dates associated
with a portion of the object represented.
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France,
Loire Valley
Château de Chambord (1519-24, 1526-37)
Exterior: Roof. Culmination of staircase
in roof cupula.
Detail showing continuation of spiral
into finial.
(009-01) |
Comments and References:
Occasionally this field will contain
observations by the photographer on the subject, or
relevant quotations from, or citations to significant
surveys and guidebooks. If a photograph is substandard or
needs to be annotated by a comment about the photographic
process, a note will appear in this section as a subfield
called, "Comments Photo:"
Slide Label:
The Slide Label is intended to provide
basic identification data. It is not intended to offer
information that will necessarily be germane to how your
institution intends to classify the object represented.
The data shown forms a broad subset of the Slide/Image
Description data. All fields are unnamed. For technical
reasons all diacritics entered into the green and white
sheets have been stripped from the label copy.
Field One [Country]: Line one.
This shows only the Country portion of
the Location field described above. This is the name of
the country that had jurisdiction of the site or property
when the photograph was taken. It indicates the location
of in situ objects or structures.
Field Two [Object Types]: Line
one.
This field shows as much of the Object
Type list as can be fit into the remaining space on line
one. Any data that cannot fit has been truncated.
Field Three [Object Name]: Line
two.
Same as Object Name, above. Content is
truncated if it does not fit on the line.
Field Four [View of Object]:
Line three.
Same as View of Object, above. Content
is truncated if it does not fit on the line.
Field Five [Identification Number]:
Line four.
Same as identification number, above.
Note that this number provides a date for the original
photography, not for the production copy of the slide
bearing it.
Field Six [Copyright Notice]:
Line four.
The photographer's notice of copyright.
See License and Usage Stipulations, below.
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TECHNICAL
DATA ON IMAGE PRODUCTION:
Equipment:
Cameras used: Nikon F5 or F2. Lenses
used: Nikkor AF 35-70/2.8; Nikkor 50mm, f1.4; Nikkor
135mm f3.5; Nikkor 55mm 3.5 macro; Nikkor 35mm
perspective control 2.8; Tamron AF 28-200; Tamron
28-200mm.
Films:
Negative stock can be Kodacolor (100,
200 or 400), Kodak 5247, Kodak 5294; Kodak 5898.
Slides are produced by contact printing negatives onto
Fuji film by RGB Color Slides, Hollywood, California.
The future:
We are investigating the possibility of
having the original negatives scanned onto Kodak Photo CD
media as means of 1) archiving negatives, 2) providing
means to offer digital images of varying resolutions and
3) digitally reproducing corrected and unblemished
slides and negatives.
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France,
Brittany, Locmariaquer
"Marchand's Table" (neolithic)
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