Tag: <span>Photography</span>

Published April 11, 2023 by

Back to the Wall: A Year of Experimenting with the Main Library’s Digital Wall

The Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service (CHDS) has managed the Main Library’s Digital Wall since it was installed in late 2019.1 The Wall is made up of two sets of nine 4k screens which are operated by touch screens: users can navigate high resolution images of the library’s cultural heritage collections as well as watch videos that feature specific collection items, projects and pieces of work undertaken by library staff. When the Wall is not in use, it displays massive “Attractor” videos which run across all 18 screens, designed to draw users in. 

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Published March 7, 2023 by

Documenting I.C.28

Black and white composite image of the death mask of William Burke, overlayed with the image of his skull, matching up eyes to eye sockets, teeth to mouth etc.

Last summer, I spent five days photographing the skeleton of William Burke to document recent conservation as a record for future collection care. The remains had been conserved and cleaned for the first time since the 1800s and the skeleton was going on display at the National Museum of Scotland for their 2022 exhibition “A Matter Of Death and Life“. I also photographed the life and death masks of Burke, Hare and Robert Knox (“the man who buys the beef”).

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Cultural Heritage Digitisation Edinburgh Medical School

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Published November 18, 2022 by

From Tantruming Cobots to Stephen Hawking at Work- CHDS at the AHFAP 2022 Conference

 

The Association for Historical and Fine Art Photogapher’s (AHFAP) conference is always a highlight of the year and, alongside 2and3D Photography at the Rijksmuseum and Archiving, it has become one of the must-attend events for any cultural heritage imaging professional. This year we were fortunate that AHFAP took place at the National Museum of Scotland here in Edinburgh, meaning for the first time ever the entire Cultural Heritage Digitisation team could attend! 

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The Pencil of Nature
Published June 4, 2014 by

The Pencil of Nature

Two of my favourite photographs in the Centre for Research Collections come from The University of Edinburghs copy of William Henry Fox Talbot’s “The Pencil of Nature“. Shelfmark Df.3.85 .The…

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Volunteer work at the Digital Imaging Unit
Published April 2, 2014 by

Volunteer work at the Digital Imaging Unit

Edinburgh College of Art Library News School of History, Classics and Archaeology School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

David Hill Photography Robert Adamson