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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 10451714, member: 79705&quot;]I am doing research on a specific carver and making a document of all his known cameo carvings. Boston MFA has 3 in their collection, but no photos online. I&#039;ve found grainy photos of 2 in a very old antiques article, so I reached out to ask if they had the 1 or more photos of the objects. They&#039;re so large, they have a department for photo requests. </p><p><br /></p><p>They emailed back and told me it would be $50 per image scan, per <i>attempt, </i>because she could see in the computer that they should have a single ancient (c. 1900) black and white photo of only the front of each, but she couldn&#039;t guarantee if they would find them. Would I want to pay $150 for them to look in a box and <i>maybe</i> find them? Not even for a license... just to view them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, no thanks. Maybe I would have luck if I emailed the department but you can&#039;t individually email the department or workers. Even the head curator&#039;s email is on her website and not the museum so it felt intrusive.</p><p><br /></p><p>The funny part? The museum had an article written not that long ago that said these pieces were the second thing purchased by the museum when it opened. And they&#039;re by an artist who lives and worked in Boston and would have known the people starting the museum and vice versa. But who needs a photo in that article or the online collection. Not on view either, obviously. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Smaller museums seem to be less &quot;corporate&quot; and obsessed with money. They still have people who are passionate about the academic side and not the marketing side... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie76" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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