facility:new york public library

Delightful Listening: A Conversation Between Viet Thanh Nguyen with Arundhati Roy - Los Angeles Review of Books
▻https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/delightful-listening-a-conversation-between-viet-thanh-nguyen-with-arundhati-roy/#!

THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION between #Viet_Thanh_Nguyen, whose novel The Sympathizer (2015) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016, and #Arundhati_Roy, whose latest novel is The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), took place at the New York Public Library on May 3, 2018.

#littérature #podcast

The Little-Seen Maps and Stories of Women in Cartography - CityLab
▻http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/03/women-in-cartography-early-north-america/471609

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In the 1970s, early in her career as map librarian at the New York Public Library, Alice Hudson started researching women mapmakers throughout history. With few other women in her chosen field, she wondered how many had come before her. “I thought I might find 10,” she tells CityLab.

But over the years, as she combed through maps, censuses, newspapers, and tips from colleagues, she was amazed by how many women there were in the early days of mapmaking. By the late ‘90s, she’d found over a thousand names of women who had drawn, published, printed, engraved, sold, or traded maps prior to 1900 alone.

#cartographie #femmes #femmes_dans_la_cartographie

Digging Up the Nineteenth-Century Roots of Thematic Map Techniques | The New York Public Library

▻https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/12/14/digging-nineteenth-century-roots-thematic-map-techniques

The mission of my Short-Term Fellowship was to research the development of thematic map technique in the West: the way that proportional circle, flow line, isopleth, choropleth, dasymetric, dot density, and cartogram techniques were invented and developed in Europe and the United States during the nineteenth century.
Atlas Geographique Alexander von Humboldt, Atlas Géographique et Physique du Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne, 1811. Paris: F. Schoell. ; p. 19

When I told friends and family about my project, there would be a pause, followed by either a confused search for a response ("Oh. Umm?") or a swift segue back to normal topics ("Huh. So, where are you staying?"). Hovering in the air between us was an incredulous elephant: this is how she spent the gift of four weeks in the Map Room, where masterpieces of cartography from across the centuries, elsewhere protected beyond the credentialed gates of private research libraries, are here available for public consultation? Instead of communing with maps from Joan Blaeu’s seventeenth century masterpiece, the Atlas mayor, she chose to leaf through yellowed, crumbling international statistical congress proceedings and the dusty annual reports of departments of public works, in search of black-and-white foldout maps and line diagrams?

Yes, and it was glorious.

#cartographie #cartographie_thématique #visualisation

A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions | The Public Domain Review
▻http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-selection-from-the-mets-public-domain-collection

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Ever since The Public Domain Review began we’ve long harboured fantasies about the Metropolitan Museum joining the growing ranks of those institutions (The Getty, New York Public Library, and Rijksmuseum, among others) who have opened up their digital copies of public domain works, making them free from all restrictions on use. Now, after a statement made last week, The MET have done just that — making all digital copies of their incredible public domain collection available under a CC0 license and in high resolution. While included in the vast lot of more than 200,000 images is a wonderful selection of the well known — Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet, etc. — we present here our highlights from the perhaps lesser known corners (though we couldn’t resist sneaking in a Paul Klee). This is the product of a casual morning’s browse in which we could only get through the first 6,000 — that’s not even 3% — so we highly encourage you to jump in yourselves and make use of their slick and very comprehensive filtering system. And if that wasn’t enough, many of the pieces are accompanied by curatorial commentary offering the stories behind the works. Treasures await!

#domaine_public #CC0 #MET

Meet the Artists: Ann Schaumburger and Michael Pellettieri | The New York Public Library

▻http://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/04/07/meet-artists-schaumburger-pellettieri

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Have you and Michael ever exhibited together before? What is it like exhibiting with a spouse?

Ann Schaumburger: This is our first time exhibiting together before. It is fun.

Michael Pellettieri: We worked together in planning the selection of each other’s work. I feel we were both deferential to each other in making sure this would work well for both of us. We thought this was an unusual space to hang work in. So we made several trips to the library to look at the space and photograph the exhibition areas. We thought this would be difficult to hang. So we enlisted the assistance of two artists from the Arts Students League. When it came time to install the work we worked together with them to make the final determination as to location of the pieces. Ann’s work needed good lighting because of the color. Because of the detail in my work it seemed desirable to have them at eye level but the lighting was not as critical because several pieces were in black and white.

Ann and Michael—can you tell me a little about your background and training as artists?

AS: I was born and grew up in New York City. I went to the High School of Music and Art and Skidmore College where I studied color and drawing with Arnold Bittleman and Arthur Anderson. I took classes in printmaking at the Arts Students League and Columbia. I maintain a studio in Long Island City and have shown regularly in New York since the seventies.

MP: I am a native New Yorker. I also went to Music and Art High School where Ann and I first met. I attended the Arts Students League for painting, drawing and printmaking where I studied with Harry Sternberg, Edwin Dickinson and Joseph Hirsch. I received a BA from City College and an MA from Hunter College in fine arts. I’ve exhibited in New York since the seventies and have maintained a studio here since that time.

What are some of your artistic inspirations?

AS: I like the work of Joseph Albers, Giorgio Morandi, Edouard Vuillard, Bill Traylor, George Orhr and early American embroideries.

MP: I always been drawn to the work of Edouard Manet and admire the work of Edward Hopper, Joseph Hirsch and Will Barnet. West coast artists Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn are also artists I like.

#art #peinture #états-unis

The Forgotten History of Female Mapmakers - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/badass-women-cartographers/474654

In the 1970s, early in her career as map librarian at the New York Public Library, Alice Hudson started researching women mapmakers throughout history.

Exposition : ▻http://www.bpl.org/exhibitions/?page_id=12226

(Joni Seager, “Literacy”, 2009)

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(Céleste Babin, “Mappemonde Projetée sur l’Horizon d’Angers”, 1839)

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#femmes #cartographie #historicisation

From Paper Maps to the Web: A DIY Digital Maps Primer by Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga | The New York Public Library
▻http://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/01/05/web-maps-primer
▻http://mapwarper.net

Map Warper is a web tool that lets you upload your scanned maps and provides a simple interface for you to geo-reference them (or “rectify” in geo parlance).

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#outil #cartographie #géoréférencement #tutoriel

WOMEN IN CARTOGRAPHY AT THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | NYS GIS Association

▻http://www.nysgis.net/women-in-cartography-at-the-boston-public-library

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Boston, MA – Women in Cartography: Five Centuries of Accomplishments, documenting the transitioning role of women in cartography over the past 500 years, opens Saturday, October 31, at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square. The exhibit features 40 maps, globes, atlases and works of art from the 17th century to the present made by women, and charts the evolution of their role in cartography from engravers in the 16th century to designers and creators in the present day. <zzz!–[if gte=”” vml=”” 1]=””><zzz![endif]–><zzz![endif]>The exhibition is curated by Alice Hudson, retired Chief of the Map Division at the New York Public Library, and co-curated by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Assistant Curator of Maps, Stephanie Cyr.

#cartographie #géographie #femmes

Celebrating 400 Years of Women in Cartography – Globemakers

▻http://www.bellerbyandco.com/blog/random/celebrating-400-years-of-women-in-cartography

Une initiative vraiment très importante sur les femmes cartographes (oubliées, niées, cachées)

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Celebrating 400 Years of Women in Cartography
June 1, 2015 Leave a Comment
Celebrating 400 Years of Women in Cartography
Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education

There is an exhibition going on now for those of you who might be passing through…. Maine. Women in Cartography recognises and celebrates the long overlooked role of women in the world of mapping; bringing their stories, accomplishments, and most importantly their maps to light. Curated by Alice Hudson, former Chief of the Map Division at the New York Public Library, Women in Cartography showcases the works of better-known women cartographers such as Marie Tharp, who, in partnership with Bruce Heezen, created the first scientific map of the entire ocean floor, and, Agnes Sinclair Holbrook who created the Hull-House maps, statistical cartographic presentations of social data from the immigrant rich Near West Side neighbourhoods of Chicago.

You can see the exhibition from March 26th – October 22nd 2015.

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Women have had many cartographic roles, depending on social and economic circumstances. Before 1800, women were integral, if generally obscure, members of the map trade; however, the industrialisation and corporatisation of the print trades led women to be excluded from the economic sphere of cartography. At the same time, the growth of Western economies gave new opportunities for women. However, they often thought it necessary to use only their initials rather than their full, feminine names. The growth of public education in the early nineteenth century, particularly in the U.S., included the formation of schools for young girls, where in addition to home-skills they were taught geography, often by drawing and embroidering maps and globes; women increasingly wrote school textbooks and often designed their maps as well. Women actively participated in the creation of maps for newly developing markets associated with automobile travel and tourism, preparing pictorial tourist maps and city guides. In academia, women have made ground-breaking maps of social, physical, and historical phenomena, using both traditional and now digital techniques. And, during World War II, when women filled the labor shortages created by mass conscription of men, thousands of women made maps for the U.S. military, only to leave the field after the war’s end.

#cartographie #femmes #discriminations #inégalités #histoire

Women in Cartography: Celebrating 400 Years of Unsung Contributions to the Mapping World, Exhibit Opening & Lecture- Eventbrite

▻http://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-cartography-celebrating-400-years-of-unsung-contributions-to-th

Women in Cartography:

Celebrating 400 Years of Unsung Contributions to the Mapping World

Photo credit: Courtesy of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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This exhibition recognizes and celebrates the long overlooked role of women in the world of mapping; bringing their stories, accomplishments, and most importantly, their maps, to light. Curated by Alice Hudson, former Chief of the Map Division at the New York Public Library, Women in Cartography showcases the works of better-known women cartographers such as Marie Tharp (pictured above), who, in partnership with Bruce Heezen, created the first scientific map of the entire ocean floor, and, Agnes Sinclair Holbrook, who created the Hull-House maps, statistical cartographic presentations of social data from the immigrant rich Near West Side neighborhoods of Chicago. Curator, Alice Hudson, will give a lecture at the Exhibit opening.

Join us in celebrating these remarkable women and their maps, dating from Coletta van den Keere’s engraved portrait of Jodocus Hondius ca. 1613 to Claire Kiedrowski’s modern GIS and LiDAR work for Kappa Mapping in Maine.

#cartographie #femmes

La New York Public Library publie 20.000 cartes téléchargeables gratuitement | Slate.fr

▻http://www.slate.fr/culture/85389/new-york-public-library-cartes-gratuit

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A Slate, on adore les cartes, toutes les cartes : celles qui éclairent l’actualité, celles qui racontent l’Histoire, celles qui expliquent la société. On ne pouvait donc qu’accueillir chaudement l’initiative Open Access Maps de la bibliothèque publique de New York qui vient de rendre accessibles à tous une véritable mine de cartes, plus de 20.000, rapportée par le site Open Culture.

#cartographie

Open Access Maps at NYPL | The New York Public Library
▻http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps

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The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads. We believe these maps have no known US copyright restrictions.* To the extent that some jurisdictions grant NYPL an additional copyright in the digital reproductions of these maps, NYPL is distributing these images under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

#cartographie #domaine_public