Information technology and culture: The New York Museum of Modern Art presented interactive archive of photographs of the early XX century

The New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in late 2014 presented to the public its next web project OBJECT:PHOTO, presented an interactive archive of photographs from the collection of Thomas Walter. The project was the result of four years of collaborative research of 30 professionals and not only 341 photographs from the collection in perfect resolution, but also a variety of materials related to them. 

The private collection, passed on to the jurisdiction of the Museum of Modern Art in 2001, includes works of leading photo artists-experimenters of the first half of the XX century, including works by El Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Berenice Abbott, Andre Kertesz, Alfred Stieglitz and a hundred other artists who have shaped the development of the art of photography for centuries to come. The materials presented at the site, logically complement the exhibition. 

The creators of the project call it as «research and conservation site», considering it more than just a repository - a platform for research, storage and preservation of the richest collections resources designed to help to spread the word about the unique collections and heritage of Photographers Revolutionary of the first half of last century.

To filter work at the site you can not only obscene or topics, but also by geography, by materials used in the work, and even on the facts of biographies of the artists. Filters are made graphically - the user, for example, can clearly see on the map where exactly photos were taken.

A great complement to a variety of data and works are dozens of critical essays, placed at the website.