ArtisanCam provides an insight into the lives of contemporary artists. Using a mixture of video and interactive activities, it introduces learners to the world of contemporary visual art before encouraging them to have a go themselves in fun and exciting ways.The website is divided into the Artists Zone, which contains classroom-based activities and the Activity Zone, which is full of games and fun interactive activities, designed to encourage students to continue their learning at home. On this interesting site you’ll find everything from Antony Gormley to Roy Lichtenstein and all in glorious technicolour.http://www.artisancam.org.uk/home.php
Histografica is an online repository holding historical images of locations across the globe. The archive is the result of users uploading their own images to the common pool. Many of the images are copyright free and all are tagged with information on copyright status and linked to a Google map highlighting the location, as in this example of Edinburgh University from 1827.http://www.histografica.com/
The Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection has been made available on the University of Toronto library website. Hollar (1607-1677) is considered one of the finest etchers of all time, and he produced around 2,700 etchings during his lifetime. The etchings in this digital collection are organised under the following headings: religious prints; mythology, satire etc.; historical prints; geography and maps; portraits; costumes; natural history; sports; architecture; title pages and initials; and heraldry, numismatics and ornament. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/hollar/
This website provides free access to a collection of over 6,000 photographs from Tibet which were taken by British photographers during the period 1920-1950. They are taken from the holdings of the the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) and the British Museum (London) and constitute a rich source of information on the social, economic and political history of the region as well as constituting a valuable visual ethnography.
It is possible to search the website by place name, subject or photographer and to browse original albums and slideshows. Topics covered include materials relating to the Dalai Lama; buddhism in Tibet, the British in Tibet and other Tibetan religious and political ceremonies.http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/index.php
The largest collection of British social and political cartoons went live on the 6th of November. Over 120,000 images from the British Cartoon Archive based at the University of Kent are available, including work by over 250 leading cartoonists including work by Giles, Ralph Steadman, Martin Rowson and Steve Bell
http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/
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