Photo library
A photo library is an image center for photographic images that is cataloged - similar to a library , where books are analogous to this. This enables access via search criteria such as author, keyword, year, etc.
A photo library usually deals with a specific subject area or a defined area (technical, temporal, geographical), but this is as extensive as possible.
Well-known photo libraries
- Photothek ( Art History Institute in Florence ) founded in 1893 with 600,000 photographs on the history of art in Italy
- Deutsche Fotothek (more than three million photo documents)
- Historical color slide archive for wall and ceiling painting
- Photo archive Photo Marburg (≈1.5 million photos )
- Museum for Casts of Classical Sculptures (100,000 images)
- Photo library of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
- Photo library in the Central Institute for Art History in Munich
- Photo library in the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg