Photo library

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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.

See also : picture agency , list of picture and photo archives and picture database

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