Canyon Lights World Art Image Bank and ARTstor

Collaborative Agreement Reached Between Canyon Lights World Art Image Bank and ARTstor

Canyon Lights World Art Image Bank and ARTstor announced today that they had reached an
agreement to collaborate on the digitization and distribution through ARTstor of nearly
3,000 high quality digital images from the rich Canyon Lights archive of original
photography. As an art historian and photographer, Susan Silberberg-Peirce of Canyon
Lights has been professionally documenting ancient sites - especially throughout the
Mediterranean region, as well as in Europe and the American Southwest - for 20 years. Her
slides and photographs of Megalithic, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval, and Southwest
Native American sites are widely used in teaching and research in universities and
museums throughout America, Canada, and Europe, and have frequently been published in
reference books and journals; many are also available as photographic prints. These
images will significantly enhance ARTstor's value to teachers as well as scholars.

As part of this collaboration, ARTstor will also sponsor a 2006 photographic campaign in
the American Southwest, intended to help Canyon Lights expand and deepen its already
strong documentation of both Prehistoric and Native American sites, especially thoughout
New Mexico.

In reaching this agreement, Dr. Susan Silberberg-Peirce of Canyon Lights and Max Marmor,
ARTstor's Director of Collection Development, expressed their shared enthusiasm in
collaborating to use digital technologies to make these high quality images of art works,
architectural monuments and archeological sites more broadly available for noncommercial
educational and scholarly purposes. "As a scholar and professor, I am acutely aware of
the educational community's need for high quality images. As a photographer, I am
delighted to have the opportunity to share my documentation with a wider audience through
ARTstor's distinguished portal," comments Dr. Silberberg-Peirce. "Our new partnership
with Canyon Lights represents an important milestone in ARTstor's ongoing effort to
provide teachers, scholars and students with high-quality digital images, especially
images that document key archeological and architectural monuments and sites. Susan
Silberberg-Peirce's images have been widely used by teachers and scholars in slide form,
and we are delighted to help make them available now online as well," adds Marmor. "We
are especially excited at the prospect of working with Canyon Lights in an ongoing way to
further develop both their already extraordinarily rich archives and ARTstor's growing
library of digital art images."

Canyon Lights  has been, for many years, a key source of
high quality art images for teaching, research and publication, with special strengths in
the documentation of archeological and architectural monuments and sites in the
Mediterranean region (Megalithic, Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Turkish sites), in Great
Britain (Megalithic and Medieval sites), and in the Southwestern United States (both
Prehistoric and Native American sites). In addition to its archive of original slides and
photographs, which is the focus of the present collaboration, Canyon Lights also
represents a number of European and Australian museums and vendors.