Photo of the Week - Sphinx
The Brooklyn Museum has taken the step of displaying some of their photographic collections online. To begin the process the museum has uploaded a set of lantern slides of Egypt collected by the Museum’s first Curator of Fine Arts, William Henry Goodyear. These slides were used by Goodyear to illustrate his lectures on Ancient Egypt.
So today I am posting a slide from the collection of the Sphinx as it appeared in Goodyear’s time.
From the Brooklyn Museum’s Flickr page:
“While the Brooklyn Museum staff is the primary user of our Libraries and Archives, we are open to the public and are always looking to reach out to a wide and varied audience. One of the challenges is ensuring everyone knows which resources we have available and listening to the needs of our visitors, so we know what to provide and how best to present these materials. One of the more interesting results of “growing” an encyclopedic collection is that we have research collections that serve as an intellectual link to the objects and perhaps act as storytellers revealing the cultural context of the objects. Think about the possible stories behind these photographs and then tag the images with the story you see. Take a look at these photographs and tell us how you would like to use them. What other materials would you like to see?
We believe that by sharing these images we will support a better understanding of the cultures that have created the great art that is held by this Museum. We hope you will agree.
Visit the Brooklyn Museum’s Egypt collection on Flickr
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