Posts by David Lowe

Verso: Looking Behind the Picture

by David Lowe, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection
March 3, 2011

Today we most often encounter a photograph as a digital image — its only physical presence is the screen from which it shines: a television, computer, or mobile device. Disembodied, the digital image can exist in infinite places at once, with no physical characteristics of its own.

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Among first to enter action. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division.

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The New York Public Library Announces Historic Agreement to Display Original Copy of the Bill of Rights

MAY 22 – Members of the public in both New York City and Pennsylvania will soon get to see The New York Public Library’s original copy of the Bill of Rights, which will be exhibited for the first time in decades.

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Meet the Neighbor, and Artist: Fred Gutzeit

One of the goals of exhibiting art in our library is to highlight the talents of local community residents. Fred Gutzeit is not only a frequent library patron at the Mulberry Street Library, but a vibrant visual artist who wanted to contribute his work so that other library-goers could enjoy and

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