The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) is pleased to announce the release of a new online exhibition, Artamonoff: Picturing Byzantine Istanbul, 1930-1947. The online exhibit is a recreation of the physical exhibit that was presented at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) in Istanbul from June 25 to November 10, 2013, … Continue reading
Written by: Alyssa DesRochers, Assistant Curator of the Artamonoff exhibition and former ICFA Intern After months of preparation and a busy week of fabrication, Artamonoff: Picturing Byzantine Istanbul, 1930-1947, opened on June 26 at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Studies. But the entire Artamonoff project at ICFA dates back more than two years, and we are so … Continue reading
Over the past month, we have been talking about Thomas Whittemore and the Byzantine Institute, and their major contributions to the Byzantine studies and community. Whittemore and the Byzantine Institute made it their mission to preserve the major monuments in the former Byzantine empire such as the Hagia Sophia and Kariye Camii. To preserve and … Continue reading
Written by William J. Harper, Koç University This past fall marked the beginning of my immersion in the world of Nicholas Artamonoff. Over the past four months, I have been working with the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) at Dumbarton Oaks by identifying and creating metadata for 477 photographs of Istanbul and various Ottoman monuments … Continue reading
Written by Alison T. Miner. This semester I’m an intern at ICFA, working with the metadata about photographs, in several legacy databases. Along with the Metadata and Cataloging Specialist, Anne-Marie Viola, I’m doing research and planning so that we can move more than 70,000 records from 5 different databases into the new collections management software, … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, we received an intriguing photo request here in ICFA. Usually, we receive requests from scholars, who are seeking to reproduce images from ICFA’s collections in their journal articles or scholarly publications. This inquiry was different. Adil Murat Kansiz, a gentleman living in Istanbul, was interested in an image of Kariye … Continue reading
Written by Aly DesRochers Nicholas V. Artamonoff may have just been an amateur photographer, but his camera lens skillfully captured a full and varied view of the city of Istanbul in the 1930s and 1940s. ICFA holds only 542 photographs of mostly Byzantine buildings and monuments in the city, but the Freer Gallery of Art … Continue reading
Written by Aly DesRochers, ICFA Intern The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives at Dumbarton Oaks holds (among other things) thousands of photographs from Byzantine sites throughout the world. Most of these have been catalogued, printed and made available for researchers. But our archive still holds some mysteries amid its shelves and cold storage freezers. One such … Continue reading
Remember Nicholas Artamonoff? There is a great new article in the Harvard Gazette about his gorgeous photographs and the research that Günder Varinlioğlu and Aly DesRochers have been doing to bring his work to life. Check it out here! Continue reading
Part of what drove Van Nice’s meticulous attention to detail was an awareness, from an early stage, that the information he was collecting was important and worthy of preservation. The clarity and thoroughness of even his tiny notes to himself suggest a rare consciousness that someone would (or should) be reading those notes decades later, … Continue reading
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