Conway Photo Library & Digitisation Studio
https://courtauld.ac.uk/libraries/collections-and-image-libraries/image-libraries/conway-library/
6057 photos taken in February 2023 with a Sony a7R III and processed in Agisoft Metashape. Access and support kindly suggested and permitted by Tom Bilson.
The collection, named after its founder Martin Conway, comprises just under 1 million photographs of architecture, architectural drawings, sculpture, decorative art and illuminated manuscripts.
Conway (1856 - 1937) began collecting and taking photographs of art and architecture whilst a student. A writer, traveller and mountaineer, one of his interests was photography of buildings that might, or had, suffered damage in WW1.
Since 1989 it has been housed in the vaults under the North Building of Somerset House, London. This was one of the former storage locations of Birth, Marriage and Death records, and features in Fred Zinnermann’s 1973 film The Day of The Jackal.
The collection has been digitised by a team of nearly 2000 volunteers.
6057 photos taken in February 2023 with a Sony a7R III and processed in Agisoft Metashape. Access and support kindly suggested and permitted by Tom Bilson.
The collection, named after its founder Martin Conway, comprises just under 1 million photographs of architecture, architectural drawings, sculpture, decorative art and illuminated manuscripts.
Conway (1856 - 1937) began collecting and taking photographs of art and architecture whilst a student. A writer, traveller and mountaineer, one of his interests was photography of buildings that might, or had, suffered damage in WW1.
Since 1989 it has been housed in the vaults under the North Building of Somerset House, London. This was one of the former storage locations of Birth, Marriage and Death records, and features in Fred Zinnermann’s 1973 film The Day of The Jackal.
The collection has been digitised by a team of nearly 2000 volunteers.