{"id":1834,"date":"2023-03-08T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2023-03-07T21:30:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:30:39","slug":"digital-treasure-trove-ongoing-16-bit-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/behind-the-scenes\/digital-treasure-trove-ongoing-16-bit-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Treasure Trove: Ongoing 16-Bit Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Contributed by PAFA Museum Collection<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digitization continues this month here at PAFA. With a permanent collection as large as ours, and with storage and exhibition space spread out across multiple sites and buildings, we need to be flexible, and it keeps us on the move. Currently, we are set up in one of our controlled storage facilities where a large number of our framed paintings are held on storage racks. We have between 150 to 200 works to photograph (or re-photograph) in high resolution, or 16-bit image depth, for future record keeping and image licensing. Not all, but many of the works we have recently photographed coincidentally included those from the Museum\u2019s current exhibition, <em>Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776\u20131976.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230307.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1835\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230307.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230307-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption>PAFA Collections photographing the work <em>Dr. Jean Piccard <\/em>(1946), by Raymond Breinin, 48 1\/8 x 37 1\/8 in. (122.2 x 94.3 cm.), 1948.2, Joseph E. Temple Fund<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the Institute of Museum and Library Services<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation\u2019s libraries and museums. We advance, support, and empower America\u2019s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development. Our vision is a nation where museums and libraries work together to transform the lives of individuals and communities. To learn more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imls.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.imls.gov\/<\/a>and follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USIMLS\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/us_imls\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by PAFA Museum Collection Digitization continues this month here at PAFA. With a permanent collection as large as ours, and with storage and exhibition space spread out across multiple sites and buildings, we need to be flexible, and it keeps us on the move. Currently, we are set up in one of our controlled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,69,5],"tags":[39,84,67],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-collection","category-digitization","category-grant","tag-imls","tag-museums","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}