Reconstructing Histories: Analyzing Exhibition Photographs with Computational Methods
Displays of art in public or private spaces have long been of interest to curators, gallerists, artists and art historians. The emergence of gallery paintings at the beginning of the seventeenth century and the photographic documentation of (modern) exhibitions testify to that. Taken as factual docu...
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| description | Displays of art in public or private spaces have long been of interest to curators, gallerists, artists and art historians. The emergence of gallery paintings at the beginning of the seventeenth century and the photographic documentation of (modern) exhibitions testify to that. Taken as factual documents, these images are not only representative of social status, wealth or the museum’s thematic focus, but also contain information about artistic relations and exhibition practices. Digitization efforts of previous years have made these documents, including photographs, catalogs or press releases, available to public audiences and scholars. While a manual analysis has proved to be insufficient, because of the sheer number of available data, computational approaches and tools allowed for a greater access. The following article describes how digital images of exhibitions, as released by the New York Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 2016, are studied with a retrieval system to analyze in which artistic contexts selected artworks were presented in exhibits. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f6487460ab164a69b80c85faaf2941ca2022-12-21T22:56:50ZengMDPI AGArts2076-07522018-10-01746410.3390/arts7040064arts7040064Reconstructing Histories: Analyzing Exhibition Photographs with Computational MethodsSabine Lang0Björn Ommer1Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing, IWR, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, GermanyHeidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing, IWR, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, GermanyDisplays of art in public or private spaces have long been of interest to curators, gallerists, artists and art historians. The emergence of gallery paintings at the beginning of the seventeenth century and the photographic documentation of (modern) exhibitions testify to that. Taken as factual documents, these images are not only representative of social status, wealth or the museum’s thematic focus, but also contain information about artistic relations and exhibition practices. Digitization efforts of previous years have made these documents, including photographs, catalogs or press releases, available to public audiences and scholars. While a manual analysis has proved to be insufficient, because of the sheer number of available data, computational approaches and tools allowed for a greater access. The following article describes how digital images of exhibitions, as released by the New York Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 2016, are studied with a retrieval system to analyze in which artistic contexts selected artworks were presented in exhibits.http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/7/4/64art historycomputer visiondigitizationexhibition historiesphotographsvisual searchretrieval systems |
| spellingShingle | Sabine Lang Björn Ommer Reconstructing Histories: Analyzing Exhibition Photographs with Computational Methods Arts art history computer vision digitization exhibition histories photographs visual search retrieval systems |
| title | Reconstructing Histories: Analyzing Exhibition Photographs with Computational Methods |
| title_full | Reconstructing Histories: Analyzing Exhibition Photographs with Computational Methods |
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| title_short | Reconstructing Histories: Analyzing Exhibition Photographs with Computational Methods |
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| topic | art history computer vision digitization exhibition histories photographs visual search retrieval systems |
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