But this isn’t my job”, the response might be. “Surely this is what archivists are for ? (It always used to be.)” Granted, in a pre-digital world, institutional archivists in government, civil society, the churches, concentrated on capturing unpublished materials produced in-house, took in those personal archives that were offered to them, and... - http://thequasiarchivist.tumblr.com/post...
paperimages:
Andrew Wyeth, Evening at Kuerners, 1970
“I work in drybrush when my emotion gets deep enough into a subject. So I paint with a smaller brush, dip it into color, splay out the brush and bristles, squeeze out a good deal of the moisture so there is only a very small amount of paint left.” [ff] - http://shinyobjects.tumblr.com/post...
farmweather:
If you compare this photo I took on New Years Day, with this photo from last year. You’ll see Luke has many more ladies to lead home at night. :) - http://shinyobjects.tumblr.com/post...
laurengerson: Oh, the color correction debate! This is something I’ve been wanting to touch on for a while, since I deal with this problem everyday at work. The big question surrounds the digitization of archival photographs and whether they should be left “as is” or color corrected “as it should be?” Now, the real problem here is when you scan a... - http://thequasiarchivist.tumblr.com/post...