Welcome to the LIS 471 WEST Spring 2013 blog

Here is some information that you might find useful about the 2nd part of the first assignment.

•Register yourself for ARTstor if you haven’t done so already.

•Select one 20th century documentary photograph from the collections available thru ARTstor, save a copy to your computer and then post it on the class blog 4with a credit line and a brief comment about why you selected this image.

There are literally thousands of documentary photographs on ARTstor in addition to all the photographs documenting works of art - for this assignment I'm not so much interested in the works of art as I am in the other kinds of photographs. You might start by looking at the collections listing - follow the link on the welcome page after you sign in:

 Some of the collections that you might find appropriate for this assignment include the incredible Magnum collection, the George Eastman House collection, and the Museum of the City of New York collection. Sites documenting architecture and the environment would also be appropriate. The main point is to familiarize yourself with the resources so enjoy browsing through some great images.

Here's a photograph I found browsing the Museum of the City of New York's Byron photographs:

Photograph by Byron Company (New York, N.Y.) of the Criterion Theatre, 1514-16 Broadway, "Beggar on Horseback". ca. 1924. Museum of the City of New York (93.1.3.159)