Today's New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/arts/design/20east.html> describes a joint venture between <http://www.eastmanhouse.org/> George Eastman House and the <http://www.icp.org/> International Center of Photography that will eventually join and make electronically accessible their photo collections (NYT site requires registration). The site, currently just a prototype, will be <http://photomuse.org/> Photomuse.org. More! More! I got mad years ago when Bill Gates bought the Bettman Archive and added it to the already-huge <http://www.corbis.com/> Corbis collection, all behind gates (pun clearly intended). (Here's a <http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002457.html> post by David Weinberger, who recently got to tour the actual Bettman Archive.) BTW, I got a call from a reporter when Bettman was bought, and I bluffed my way through half the call (what the hell's the Batman collection??), until I confessed to ignorance about it. Gave us both a great laugh. posted by Jerry at <http://www.sociate.com/blog/archives/2005_07_01_archive.html#11218914740090 9794> 1:22 PM
