This is the first of a series of blog posts addressing photographic lighting techniques for transparent glasses. Most photographers, especially in museum settings, are trained to photograph objects on flat, neutral backgrounds, and yet that approach creates incredible challenges when … Read more →
One of the challenges of organizing Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics was that many of Tiffany’s mosaics are located in their original architectural settings, or in situ, and cannot be removed to loan to an exhibition. Curators Kelly Conway and Lindsy Parrott … Read more →
This post comes from Joseph Schill, the archives intern at the Rakow Research Library. In 1958, photographer Constance Stuart Larrabee came to Corning, N.Y., to photograph Steuben glass workers in action. Larrabee was a gifted artist who is best known … Read more →
Viewing collection objects on our website is nothing new, but being able to turn the object completely around and zoom in to get a close-up view of the intricacies of an object is. The Corning Museum of Glass Collections Photography department … Read more →