Brought to light – A stone grotesque and the Artec Spider II scanner
By Tony Richards and Samuel Simpson The Rylands Heritage Imaging Lab have recently taken delivery of an Artec Spider IIContinue Reading
Category: Photography
3D printing Cuneiform 931
Senior Photographer Tony Richards writes about 3D printing a facsimile of Cuneiform 931 as a handling object for the public, alongside the original, at the Wellcome Collection as part of the Thirst: In Search of Water exhibition.
Digital Concrete: Reconstructing Frog, Pond, Plop
Jo Castle, senior photographer at the John Rylands Library, writes about creating a digital version of a radical translation of a poem about a frog
Arthur Gook and the trouble with letters
MA student Alex Tunstall shares her reflections on cataloguing the Echoes of Service correspondence files
A 3D farewell to Dr John Hodgson
3D scanning and printing the John and Enriqueta Rylands statues as a gift for Dr John Hodgson
Imaging watermarks
Senior photographer Tony Richards explains their research into imaging paper watermarks.
Li Yuan-chia: Life and Art through the Camera Lens
Two of our placement students talk about their work with the photography collection of Li Yuan-Chia.
Digitising the Sinhalese Palm Leaf ManuscriptsÂ
Rylands, Paramaththa and ICTB UK have digitised thirty-two Sinhalese Manuscripts to open up access to the collection
Through the lens of Shirley Baker
The University of Manchester Library has recently acquired a body of work by the Manchester photographer Shirley Baker
The Photography Collection: Photobooks by Women
Our extensive Photography Collection contains a grouping of photobooks by women. The purchase of these books was intended to act as a further step forward in diversifying the visual material within our Special Collections.