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Setting up shop in the Lincoln room!
While many of the items we photograph are done in our studio, we do occasionally need to photograph items or objects where they reside at Brown. This is usually due to their size or other constraints...
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Almost as long as the river itself
Recently, I was working on a patron request that involved photographing multiple foldout maps from a range of books. Foldouts in books are always tricky, and involve both conservation and photographic...
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Sanskrit Friday
I was lucky today to work with two Sanskrit scholars, Peter Scharf and Susan Moore (both affiliated with the Sanskrit Library), to photograph some missing leaves in our palm leaf manuscripts...
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360 Degrees of Advent
Advent Calendar – main view Although I generally photograph books and flat documents, I occasionally have the opportunity to photograph three-dimensional objects. Depending on the type of object (this...
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Interior Designs
Much of the work that we do here at DPS involves objects and items from the Brown Library’s Special Collections. These are housed in the John Hay Library, which just recently celebrated its Centennial....
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Napoleon’s Death Mask
While the bulk of my work involves the digitization of two-dimensional documents, or straightforward photographs of pages from books, I also photograph other types of items – like the 360 degree...
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Illuminating Postcards
While I generally work with objects and texts from Brown’s Special Collections, I also work with images for the instructional image collection with Karen Bouchard, the Scholarly Resources Librarian...
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Ninety degrees of separation
When I joined Digital Production Services as a photographer in 2008, one of my first projects was a 15th century bible in the collection of the Providence Public Library. The PPL has a significant...
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A Great Gatsby; a poor speller
Just in time for the release of the 2013 remake of the film, I came across this copy of The Great Gatsby. This edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is notable for several reasons. It is a...
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Photographing Clara
As a followup to last week’s post about John Hay, I thought it would be a good time to discuss photographing the portrait of Clara Stone Hay. The wife of Brown alumnus John Hay, Clara Stone Hay’s...
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Studio on the go
The library Annex: known for housing a vast collection of books not stored in our on-campus libraries, it’s also home to an art vault for Brown’s portrait collection. During the slower summer months,...
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P. as in Paul?
While a great deal of the photography that I do here at Brown involves planned projects (often from our Signature Collections), we also get requests from patrons and scholars from around the world, as...
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No tannins at all, and very little fruit (part I)
Perelman Papers, Box 11 Such was the assessment of a leaking bottle of wine from the manuscripts collection (by a library staff member who dared to take a sip). There’s more to this story, and I was...
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No tannins at all, and very little fruit (part II)
This post is part two of the “No tannins at all, and very little fruit” post from Sept. 6, 2013. The first post outlines how I approached photographing the bottle of wine from the Archives; this post...
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The Art School Down the Hill
Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design are within steps of each other, so it’s no surprise that the two have a great deal of overlap in the community. While my full time work is as a...
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How do you solve a problem like a foldout?
When assessing how to photograph a book, we must first make several determinations. The key to photographing books well – by which I mean providing well-lit images, in good focus, without damaging the...
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Photographing the Break Up of Time
While the vast majority of my work involves photographing items in collection, it may also have become clear in my blog posts that I’m occasionally asked to document library events and library spaces....
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The more things change…
As winter in New England quickly becomes the house guest that has greatly outstayed its welcome, I thought it would be interesting to browse through the Brown Digital Repository for images of snow in...
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Avoiding Moiré
Because we photograph a great deal of prints and engravings, moiré patterning is an issue that we must consistently keep an eye out for. Moiré patterning often occurs during image capture; it can also...
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A “Glee” filled May Day
We’re celebrating May Day with this image of the Pembroke College Glee Club from the Pembroke Archives. The Images of Brown collection, which is home to this image, boasts more than 4,100 items (and...
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