ARTstor is collaborating with Justin Kerr and Barbara Kerr to share 500 photographs of Pre-Columbian artifacts. The collection will consist of still and rollout photographs of vases, plates, and bowls from the various cultures of Mesoamerica. The rollouts—which show the entire surface of an object in a single frame—were made by photographer Justin Kerr with a camera he designed and built. The objects in the collection depict a variety of everyday Mayan activities and religious concepts, and stem from archaeological sites, museums, and collections throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, the United States, Canada, and Europe.
For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Maya Pre-Columbian vases and artifacts (Justin Kerr and Barbara Kerr) page.
Related collections:
- Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University)
- Ferguson-Royce: Pre-Columbian Photography (University of Texas at Austin)
- Art, Archaeology, and Architecture (Canyonlights World Art Image Bank)
- Moreen O’Brien Maser Memorial Collection (Skidmore College)
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University)
Do you know how long this collection will be on display? I would like to take my family to see it. Thanks.
Hi Matt,
The collection is available in ARTstor, so you need to visit an organization that subscribes to access it (you can see a full list of subscribing organizations here: http://www.artstor.org/subscribe/s-html/subscribers.shtml). You can also see many of these images on the Maya Vase website: http://www.mayavase.com/.